I plugged them into the Pi 2 USB port and, as expected, nothing much happened! Syslog displayed the following: Mar 18 11:08:25 raspi2 kernel: usb 1-1.2: new high-speed USB device number 6 using dwc_otg While waiting for the dongle to arrive, I prepared several SD cards with the latest Raspbian (Debian Wheezy) downloaded from .Ībout 2 weeks later, the dongles arrived in minimalistic packaging, with each dongle wrapped in a plastic bag, placed together in a paper envelope posted from Germany. Without much hesitation, I brought 2 to try out with my two new Raspberry Pi 2.

While I search for the best price available on the internet, I came across t his WiFi dongle which claimed to be Raspberry Pi compatible and it’s about half the price of the Edimax WiFi dongle. So I search for the Edimax WiFi dongles which is known to work out of the box with Raspberry Pis. Like my other Raspberry Pis, I eventually wanted to connect them via wireless networks. Other hardware spec matches that of the B+: a Videocore GPU, a 40-pin GPIO, 4 x USB 2 ports, HDMI, MicroSD card and a 10/100 Ethernet, and best of all, the physical dimensions of Pi 2 is the same as the Pi B+, so you can use enclosures designed for model B+. The next improvement is the amount of RAM installed, it has been upgraded to 1GB. A Broadcom 2836, which is a quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 running which claimed to speeds up by as much as six times over previous models. The Raspberry Pi 2 has many improvements over the previous models.

Recently, I managed to get hold of two to play with from here. Since released, I tried to get hold of one from my usual distributor but none available. The Raspberry Pi 2 is the latest from the Raspberry Foundation.

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