Read the statement by Michael Teeuw here.
Wifi connection issues
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@Nneuland the not connecting with the dongle is because there is a different IP address than the built in wifi.
do you have a mouse & keyboard on the pi. gonna need that
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Ideally I would like to avoid using the dongle all together, but the Pi doesn’t seem to want to stay connected without the dongle. Yes, I can take the mirror off the wall and connect a mouse and keyboard.
I have a wireless keyboard/mouse on the way to avoid needing to take the mirror off the wall constantly.
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@Nneuland understand. reboot the router
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Good call on the new ip address. Thanks Sam. everythings up and running again
restarting modem and router didnt help any when I was testing dongle-less.
It’s working fine now with the dongle, I just wish I understood what caused the built-in wifi to drop -
@Nneuland I’ll toss in my two cents but my old router all the ip addresses seemed fixed.
My new router arbitrarily change ip addresses on devices and while I assume it provides some sort of protection to home network it made my life very complicated for a few weeks.
I’ve come back and made static ip addresses for some but not all of the various IoT stuff.
