Hi everybody.
First of all, thanx to Michelangeloz for his wonderful work.
I decide to buy a Raspberry and the suggested WiPi dongle to listen to my music in a room with no eth available.
But of course I installed Raspyfi using an ethernet connection first.
After I checked the system was working, I tried to plug the WiPi in.
Nothing happened. The Raspyfi UI showed the eth0 interface, but no wlan0.
I read the Raspyfi wifi tutorial, but when I tried to execute the command:

sudo wicd-curses

I obtained as answer:

sudo: wicd-curses: command not found

Not wanting to update fearing to loose Raspyfi optimization, I resorted to manual configuration.
Well, RTFM, so I found this:

http://www.howtogeek.com/16742…..mand-line/

and, after consulting also the element14 websites, I added a few lines on /etc/network/interface:

auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wpa-ssid ….
wpa-psk ….

This time after rebooting the WiPi was found and my Raspberry got 2 network interfaces up and running, each one with its IP.
Sadly, when I unplugged the ethernet cable, both the interfaces collapsed. No ethernet, no wifi.
I tried every combination: boot only with WiPi plugged in, boot with only eth cable and after plug in the dongle, boot with both,
and I even imposed static IP to both interfaces because I noticed that this speeds the boot process.
But I get always the same result:

I can get the wifi working only when also ethernet0 interface is working.

Anyone has any idea on how to solve this issue?

Thanx,

Hi, thanx for your answers and the tips about wicd-curses.

At the moment, the only difference I can tell from your /etc/network/interface and mine is that you commented out the eth0 section.
I've got a monitor attached and it seems that the Raspberry connects to my router, I can even see it from the router administration web page.

Anyway I'll try with the comments and, if it's stil not working I'll figure out a way to extract logs and post it on the forum.

Bye,