New user of piBeacon, need a bit of assistance.
Using piBeacon 7.128.459, buster 2020-02-25 ssd image.
Can someone point me to instructions to bring up an rpi 3B+ to use wifi, both by using ethernet initially and starting with wifi?
Using the Debian distro through rpi, the rpi has no trouble showing available networks and connecting to my SSID without having ethernet connected, so the rpi's wifi works. piBeacon works well through ethernet, I just can't get wifi operational.
Using the piBeacon SD image as above, even though wlan0 is "UP", no packets are being transmitted; doesn't look like the interface is being used therefore dhcp request doesn't get sent. The wifi mac address is in my router to give a specific wlan IP, but piBeacon reports "no ip number working".
If I then connect an ethernet cable, the rpi immediately obtains an IP address through dhcp.
I would like to be able to change to wifi. More importantly, I would also like at some point to add one or more rpi 0-W's, so I need to be able to start from scratch with only wifi and terminal input (keyboard and monitor on rpi).
I have tried the procedures here , and adding json file {"SSID":"abc", "passCode":"def"} to the boot directory on the sd card as described here, without success.
Appreciate any pointers to what I'm missing. Have read a bunch of topics in this subforum but not finding the right place.