Netgear N300 unable to connect to wifi

Pi MusicBox
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I decided to finally go far with MusicBox. So I went out and got a Netgear N300 wireless adapter. I have a Linksys EA6400 wireless router, SSID: Alt-Stowers and the security is set to WPA2/WPA Mixed Personal (I tried WPA2 Personal as well).

I plopped in the password and when I boot it up, it says “Waiting for network…” about 7 times then finally says “[ ok] IP address is 169.254.11.229 . Connect to MusicBox at…” I have no idea what that IP address is. It isn’t local or external on my network.

I have used both a powered USB hub and directly connecting to the pi. (I have a RPI B model.) When I unplug the adapter and plug it in it gives the product, manufcaturer, usb id all that good stuff… then it says:

snd-hifiberry-digi snd-hifiberry-digi.0: ASoC: CODEC wm8804.1-003b not registered
snd-hifiberry-digi snd-hifiberry-digi.0 snd_soc_register_card() failed: -517
platform snd-hifiberry-digi.0: Driver snd-hifiberry-digi requests probe deferral

Can’t seem to get this USB wireless stick to work… eth0 works fine\

Any help would be appreciated.

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The ip you get means it was unable to connect to a dhcp server, so it is possible that dhcp is off on your router.

You can also connect a screen and a keyboard to the pi to configure the wlan adapter via the command line using this guide http://www.maketecheasier.com/setup-wifi-on-raspberry-pi/

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DHCP is on in the router settings.When I run an ifconfig, wlan0 doesnt show up. It does appear in lsusb. When I scan for wireless access points it says interface doesn’t support scanning.

Not sure where to go from here.

Edit: I tested the wireless adapter device on Windows and it works just fine.

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Check the wireless adapter is supported by Linux. Not all of them are. There's a list somewhere of the drivers in the raspberry pi kernel.

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it says it’s supported but whatever ill just buy wi-pi

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It's not on the elinux list that comes up on Google. The Berlin n300 is, but that appears to be a different chipset to your netgear n300. Hope you have more luck with a different dongle.

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I see what I did… the elinux site lists: WMA3100M when mine is WNA3100M