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Awesome!! I just wish they would release one with onboard Wifi instead of ethernet. I have no statistics to back this up, but I'm pretty sure that USB Wifi adap

Awesome!! I just wish they would release one with onboard Wifi instead of ethernet. I have no statistics to back this up, but I'm pretty sure that USB Wifi adapters would be the most common accessory.

chj 12y ago
It'd be great to have wifi on board, but ethernet is still important.
sdenton4 12y ago
I use the onboard ethernet pretty constantly, mainly because I find the wireless to be finicky and hard to troubleshoot when you're running a headless setup. I can always plug in an ethernet cable, though...
- gorgas 12y ago
  Agree. However Finally I was able to keep an uptime greater than 2 months on my Pi by using a wifi dongle and a bunch of cron scripts to keep alive the connection when my router reboots or the dongle 'freezes' which seems is a common issue when using RPi of any kind :(
  - gcb0 12y ago
    that's probably a bad dongle. i connect my htpc via a Wi-Fi USB dongle as well. it runs both Linux and windows 7. and despite the os and drivers one model always hang after a day or so. another one, different model from same brand is online for months at a time. it's mostly badly designed/tested hardware.
    - gorgas 12y ago
      I was expecting a answer like "my dongle X just works on the Pi" :-) I do not doubt it is a problem with the hardware or the drivers, I just say it is a common problem with many dongle vendors specially in the Pi. I know I could buy a RPi-certified dongle, but I do not like wasting hardware if I can fix it just with a few scripts. No offense :)
      - TheOtherHobbes 12y ago
        WiFi on the Pi 'just doesn't work.' You can get it working for a while, but it's nowhere near the reliability of standard domestic WiFi. I've built various sensor/hardware projects and tried various dongles, and I've always had to switch back to a cabled connection.
  - StavrosK 12y ago
    I had that issue as well, where it would freeze if it transferred lots of data (as in, a large number of files in a dir would freeze it when doing ls on the terminal), and the problems went away with a higher-amperage power supply.
cbhl 12y ago
Depending on what you're trying to build, a Spark Photon might be a better fit for your project.
danpat 12y ago
It's probably the economics of FCC/CE testing vs utility. The testing for unintentional radiators is onerous enough. If you add an intentional radiator, you trigger a whole lot more tests and a whole more cost.

chj 12y ago

It'd be great to have wifi on board, but ethernet is still important.

sdenton4 12y ago

I use the onboard ethernet pretty constantly, mainly because I find the wireless to be finicky and hard to troubleshoot when you're running a headless setup. I can always plug in an ethernet cable, though...

gorgas 12y ago
Agree. However Finally I was able to keep an uptime greater than 2 months on my Pi by using a wifi dongle and a bunch of cron scripts to keep alive the connection when my router reboots or the dongle 'freezes' which seems is a common issue when using RPi of any kind :(
- gcb0 12y ago
  that's probably a bad dongle. i connect my htpc via a Wi-Fi USB dongle as well. it runs both Linux and windows 7. and despite the os and drivers one model always hang after a day or so. another one, different model from same brand is online for months at a time. it's mostly badly designed/tested hardware.
  - gorgas 12y ago
    I was expecting a answer like "my dongle X just works on the Pi" :-) I do not doubt it is a problem with the hardware or the drivers, I just say it is a common problem with many dongle vendors specially in the Pi. I know I could buy a RPi-certified dongle, but I do not like wasting hardware if I can fix it just with a few scripts. No offense :)
    - TheOtherHobbes 12y ago
      WiFi on the Pi 'just doesn't work.' You can get it working for a while, but it's nowhere near the reliability of standard domestic WiFi. I've built various sensor/hardware projects and tried various dongles, and I've always had to switch back to a cabled connection.
- StavrosK 12y ago
  I had that issue as well, where it would freeze if it transferred lots of data (as in, a large number of files in a dir would freeze it when doing ls on the terminal), and the problems went away with a higher-amperage power supply.

cbhl 12y ago

Depending on what you're trying to build, a Spark Photon might be a better fit for your project.

danpat 12y ago

It's probably the economics of FCC/CE testing vs utility. The testing for unintentional radiators is onerous enough. If you add an intentional radiator, you trigger a whole lot more tests and a whole more cost.