RatOS not connecting to work network
Hi all
I've recently rented an office with shared wifi and I added the new IP and password to the .conf file. Thanks to you I got app for scanning all the IP's and I found the PIs IP. However when I type it in the browser it does not want to connect, same as typing ratos/local.
Anyone have idea? thanks
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Im suspecting that this does not get the full list as I don't see my
computer's IP which ends on 176
Which .conf file did you edit for the wifi? Are you sure the IP address is correct for your pi?
I coppied the wpa supplicant.conf.bak, changed it with notepad++ and saved as new file with .bak deleted.
now Im scanning the network as I realised with the printer off this .248 Pi address was still showing, meaning I was trying to access somebody else's printer lol
Are you sure it is connected to your wifi? Is RatOS hotspot showing up?
there is only 1 Wifi In the entire building, with many antennas around. IF you hookup with either, you should be in? basically scanned 62 connections and I dont see Ratos, I see my computer though. Perhabs there is no name
RatOS hotspot? you mean when I scan with my phone?
It is setup that if it can't connect to the wifi it will then start a hotspot of its own
then no, I do not see a hotspot with anything that looks like printer
yeah so I wrote every IP with no description and name in the browser and I still could not connect
Time to talk to your network admin and ask what the IP address is then
towards which one are you leaning more? I know you got quite a bit of experience in this and I trust you expertise
1. It's connected but I don't know the IP
2. I have not connected it.
Not sure, but in either case your network admin will be able to help you
there is no network admin :D, I don't even know where the main router is.
Someone has to have set it up
lets try again
Better way would be to use the ratos hotspot and the configurator to set the wifi
this is something new to me? is it a new update to RatOS? I've never seen a hotspot, doing a last try before investigating this
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It's in the documentation
If you have a backup of your config files then it might be easier to just reinstall ratos and do the setup again. If you don't have backups, this is a good example of why you should
hmm that would have been amazing to do before I moved the machine, perhaps I can wire it through ethernet to the PC to get my config and wipe everything later
hmm, I deliberately removed the ssid and password and I still dont see hotspot. seems quite unusual for what I see on the documentation
You probably are editing the wrong file. The wpa supplicant is aliased to another file
absent-sapphire•2y ago
As I am planning on changing my Wifi credentials also: What would be the right file to edit?
Don't edit it manually, use the configurator
absent-sapphire•2y ago
Thanks, did not know you can do that, but it is just .local/configure 🙂