connect to a wlan: Can't allocate interface wllease { interface Raspberry Pi - raspberry-pi

I've a wlan0 configured in my rasp pi (file /etc/network/interfaces and /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf)
In the past I could connect to it with no problems but now I can't. I've tried a few different LANs and I can't get any to work.
Everytime I do either ifdown or ifup I get the result:
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client 4.3.1
Copyright 2004-2014 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/
Can't allocate interface wllease {
interface .
Any hints?

A little late, but this happens when the dhcp lease file gets corrputed.
Try clearing the wlan0 leases with:
sudo echo "" > /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient.wlan0.leases

I think a better way would be just to remove the lease files using the following command.
rm -rf /var/lib/dhcp/*

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can ping 8.8.8.8 but not google.com

I just got a new router and internet connection.
My phone and my second computer have no problem to connect to internet (wifi or cable). My first computer, where I am running Limux Mint 18.1 Serena, can connect with cable or wifi but I am unable to browser.
I can ping 8.8.8.8 but not google.com.
I do not understand much of DNS but I tried to follow some online tutorials.
I tried to modify the /etc/resolconf directory by adding a resolv.conf file with a new servername but didn't work (even after restarting network-manager). I tried as well to modify the /etc/resolv.conf.d/tail file (as read in other tutorials) by adding a new servername but still not working.
Any suggestion?
Your DNS resolving doesn't work.
Check your firewall for an open port UDP/53 to 8.8.8.8
# iptables -L -n -v
Check with your ISP for DNS server provided. They are probably blocking UDP/53 somewhere on the way out to force you to use internal DNS server.
If you are on DHCP, renew the lease.
Depends on distro (most probably networkmanager, ifdown/ifup combination may work as well). This happens quite often with resolvconfd and dnsmasq. You may need to restart the NetworkManager then
Again - command depends on distro, usually with systemd
# systemctl restart NetworkManager
If you are on static IP and have noone to ask or check their config, you may sniff (tcpdump -nnvv -i <interface> udp port 53).
The problem occurs due to trouble with DNS setting
If you are using linux follow:
Clear this file content (root permission required)
nano /etc/resolv.conf
Add the folling text:
nameserver 1.1.1.1
nameserver 8.8.8.8
Save and Reboot
If using Windows Follow:
Control Panel\Network and Internet\Network and Sharing Center
Select current active connection (wifi/broadband)
Properties > Networking > ipv4 > custom dns > 1.1.1.1 & 8.8.8.8
check Validate setting upon exit > save

Enabling wlan on Raspberry Pi 3 bare linux

I have built the linux system for my RPi3 using buildroot. It boots properly and I can access the wired connection properly. However, I am stuck with enabling the wlan.
Here is what I have done so far.
Built the filesystem using buildroot:
make raspberrypi3_defconfig
make
After booting linux successfully I followed this link to enable wlan.
As the author of the post mentions, I had to select some of the wireless related packages by running make linux-menuconfig. But when I did run it, these packages were already selected.
I then ran make menuconfig and selected wpa_supplicant and other packages.
Now, when I boot the RPi3, wlan0 is not listed when I run ifconfig -a. I googled it a bit and found that there should be folder named wlan0 under /sys/class/net/. But I can only find eth0 and lo
Kindly guide me on how to get the wlan working. dmesg log is posted here
If you are using Buildroot, make sure you have selected BR2_PACKAGE_RPI_WIFI_FIRMWARE.
Also you have to manual load the wifi kernel module:
# modprobe brcmfmac
After that, you can confirm wlan0 with
# ifconfig -a
You could also configure Buildroot to build udev as /dev management option, in this case, WiFi kernel module will be loaded automatically.

LIRC irsend: could not connect to socket irsend: No such file or directory

I am trying to configure LIRC to work with my Raspberry 2B and a circuit I build with a transistor and a IR transmitter as explained in this tutorial
After the installation of LIRC, I followed all the steps and I added these two lines in /etc/modules
lirc_dev
lirc_rpi gpio_out_pin=36
Then I typed this in /etc/lirc/hardware.conf
LIRCD_ARGS="--uinput"
LOAD_MODULES=true
DRIVER="default"
DEVICE="/dev/lirc0"
MODULES="lirc_rpi"
LIRCD_CONF=""
LIRCMD_CONF=""
After rebooting, I added the configuration of my Samsung remote (BN59-00516A) to /etc/lirc/lircd.conf
Then I restarted LIRC again but when I run a command to send a IR frequency
irsend SEND_ONCE Samsung_BN59-00865A KEY_POWER
it complains with the following error:
irsend: could not connect to socket
irsend: No such file or directory
I am guessing this is a problem with my device socket, because in the hardware.conf file I set
DEVICE = "/dev/lirc0"
(just because the tutorial states it), but lirc0 file isn't within the folder.
I couldn't find any other question related to this problem and google didn't help me much either. Does anyone have any hint on this?
After googling a lot, I found out an update is needed to have everything working properly. In my case I did:
apt-get update, apt-get upgrade, rpi-update
Also, as pointed out in this other tutorial, depending on the Raspberry firmware, you might need to add this to /boot/config.txt
dtoverlay=lirc-rpi,gpio_in_pin=XX,gpio_out_pin=YY
Substitute X and Y for whatever pins you're using!
I had a similar problem and I solved it with this command:
sudo lircd --device /dev/lirc0
If you set the value of LIRCD_ARGS in /etc/lirc/hardware.conf to "--device /dev/lirc0", it should start lircd appropriately, when /etc/init.d/lirc is started at boot.
you need to run lircd. It will create two files (lircd and lircd.pid) at /var/run/lirc/:
lircd
I got the same error messages. But had all configurations done. The restart of the lirc daemon solved this issue by typing
$ sudo /etc/init.d/lirc restart
I think is useful to say that the gpio_in_pin=XX,gpio_out_pin=YY part of the /etc/modules can be double checked with
dmesg | grep lirc
which results in something like
[ 3.437499] lirc_dev: IR Remote Control driver registered, major 244
[ 5.472916] lirc_rpi: module is from the staging directory, the quality is unknown, you have been warned.
[ 6.621156] lirc_rpi: auto-detected active high receiver on GPIO pin 22
[ 6.622515] lirc_rpi lirc_rpi: lirc_dev: driver lirc_rpi registered at minor = 0
[ 6.622528] lirc_rpi: driver registered!
for /etc/modules containing
lirc_dev
lirc_rpi gpio_in_pin=23 gpio_out_pin=22

Raspberry pi 2 .start wifi on boot

i have just bought a raspberry pi 2 . i manged to set up a headless setup by setting up an ip in the commandline.txt file and then connect to it via putty.
In the /etc/network/interfaces i set up a static ip for the wifi connection along with the connection name and password. and the wifi works fine...
But the problem is the raspberry pi wont connect to wifi unless i connect the ethernet cable and make one ssh connection using putty..
If i boot using wifi only the green light will not turn up and i am not sure if the raspberry is booting or no...but when the ethernet is connected the gren light starts blinking and i can make an ssh connection.
can anyone help me with this.
I've dealt with a lot of pi wifi issues.
Adding "auto wlan0" to /etc/network/interfaces helped, but there were still instances where it didn't start up. I have the edimax ew-7811un usb wifi adapter. Can't remember where I took this script from to give credit.
I have cron running this script (wifi_check.sh) every five minutes:
keepalive_host='ip to ping here'
ping -q -c1 $keepalive_host >> /dev/null
if [ "$?" -ne "0" ]; then
ifdown wlan0
rmmod 8192cu
modprobe 8192cu
ifup wlan0
fi
You could repurpose the script and have something like this in crontab
#reboot /bin/sleep 30 ; /path/to/wifi_check.sh
Which should wait 30 seconds after boot, try to ping the server you specify, if it can: do nothing, if it can't: bring the wifi connection down and then try to bring it back up. I don't think the lines with 8192cu in them are necessary for your purposes unless that driver is also used by your wifi adapter.

Resolve hostnames with arch linux on a RaspberryPi

I have a Pi that runs hostapd and dhcpd on arch linux to create it's own land with the Pi's (routers) IP being 10.0.0.1. This uses the wlan0 interface and it only serves as a standalone router running a web server.
Once I connect to the Pi, I use 10.0.0.1 to display the web pages, but I want to use a hostname such as firepi. I have tried using dnsmasq, but I haven't been successful. Any help would be greatly appreciated especially if you can give me some detailed examples as I am a novice.
The purpose of this system is that I have created a web app that you can use to ignite fireworks over WiFi at a safe distance. I would just like the convenience of using a hostname instead of the IP address.
I must add that I will more than likely be using an iPhone to connect to the server, should this affect anything.
Not too sure how or why but this is what I did and it is successfully working now, so this is just for future users who may need a similar setup to mine.
First I installed hostapd and dhcpd and made sure they were working. Next I changed '/etc/hostname' to firepi and the '/etc/hosts' and added '10.0.0.1 firepi'. Then I installed dnsmasq, and set the interface to wlan0, and finally added '10.0.0.1 firepi' to '/etc/resolv.conf'.
After a full reboot, I joined the network on my iPhone, navigated to firepi and sure enough, it worked!
Thanks to the other users for their advice and tips.
You can use avahi on Arch as well to resolve your hostname:
sudo pacman -S avahi nss-mdns
Start the avahi daemon:
sudo systemctl enable avahi-daemon.service
sudo systemctl start avahi-daemon.service
Edit /etc/nsswitch.conf
sudo vim /etc/nsswitch.conf
Change the line:
hosts: files myhostname dns
to
hosts: files myhostname mdns_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns
Reboot
Note: don't forget to add .local to your hostname.
See also:
http://blog.pixxis.be/post/77285636682/resolve-hostname-with-arch-linux-on-a-raspberry-pi
If you just want to be able to use "firepi" as hostname to connect to it, you can simply add it to your /etc/hosts file using the syntax "IP host".
To make it as easy as possible, run this command as root:
echo "10.0.0.1 firepi" >> /etc/hosts
That'll do the trick.
Can you try avahi ?
sudo apt-get install avahi-daemon and
sudo apt-get install avahi-browse
I've successfully used that on Raspian. Unless you change the hostname using
sudo raspi-config you will access via raspberrypi.local
Note that if you plan to access the RPi from Windows you will need to install Bonjour Service first(if you have iTunes intalled, you might have those, run services.msc and check if the Bonjour Service is started)
Another note: On a friend's iphone I've installed a generic vnc client and had x11vnc running on the RPi and succesfully managed to connect to the RPi (since avahi-daemon was installed)