[TriLUG] Wifi Adapter for Pi

[Thomas V Thomas]

You may want to power the RPi directly.
The Wifi adapter may have been dropping connection (due to low power) and
reconnecting (re-scan) causing it to overheat.

Thomas V Thomas
thomasvt at gmail.com


On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 10:23 PM, Igor Partola <igor at igorpartola.com> wrote:

> The hub could indeed be underpowered. I was powering an external harddrive,
> a Bluetooth adapter, the Wi-Fi adapter, and the RPi itself. It did not
> occur to me that an underpowered hub might cause a device to overheat, but
> now that you say that, it does.
>
> I'll have to readjust this setup to see if the issue happens again.
>
> Thanks,
> Igor
>
> On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 9:12 PM, Thomas V Thomas <thomasvt at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Igor - regarding the overheating issue.. are you powering all the devices
> > from the USB hub. Could it be an underpowered USB hub?
> >
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