Hi I am trying to configure Khepera 3 robots to connect to the WI-FI hotspot of my Windows 10 laptop. The robots run on Linux.

So far I have managed to get the robot to connect to the WIFI network and I can ping other devices on the network as well as google servers (8.8.8.8).

The problem is that my laptop is not showing that the robot is connected to it. When I try to send a file using the scp command the connection times out. When I try to restart the network using /etc/init.d/networking restart I get the following output:

root@korebot2:/etc/wpa_supplicant$ /etc/init.d/networking restart
Reconfiguring network interfaces... /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/wireless: /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/wireless: 5: pre-up: not found
/etc/network/if-pre-up.d/wireless: /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/wireless: 6: post-down: not found
run-parts: /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/wireless exited with return code 127: Success
route: SIOC[ADD|DEL]RT: File exists
/etc/network/if-pre-up.d/wireless: /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/wireless: 5: pre-up: not found
/etc/network/if-pre-up.d/wireless: /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/wireless: 6: post-down: not found
run-parts: /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/wireless exited with return code 127: Success
done.

It says that pre-up and post-down not found. I have included the contents of the /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/wireless file below as well.

#!/bin/sh
ifconfig eth0 up
ifconfig eth0 192.168.137.101
route add default gw 192.168.137.1 eth0
pre-up wpa_supplicant -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -ieth0 -Dwext -B
post-down killall -q wpa_supplicant


Thanks for your time, I am completely stuck.

If you can ping other devices on the network then do you have a ssh versus networking problem?

Can you connect to the server using ssh? Is ssh running and have you allowed ssh traffic through the firewall?

I am now connected to the WI-FI without any errors. The problem was because I chose an IP address out of its range.

However I have a problem with ssh now. I can ssh into my laptop from the robot. I can also copy files from my robot to the laptop using scp. For some reason I cannot do it the other way round. When I try to ssh from my laptop to the robot the connection times out. My firewall is inactive. The robot does not have a firewall. Both devices use port 22 as ssh port. I checked that the robot is listening for ssh connections too!

The robot uses dropbear as an ssh program, hence I installed an old version of ssh on my laptop to see if it was the reason but nothing changed.

It is all very odd to me. Thank you for the response!

I have not played with dropbear in a while but I assume you have verified that it is running. What are the error messages? Does the robot have a host key?

The password of the robot is just enter. It does not give an error. It tries to connect to port 22 of the robot but never actually establishes a connection. As I said when I execute the command ssh on the robot side to log into my laptop it works perfectly.

You can use the -v option to see debug messages. multiple v's (max of 3) increase verbosity. See man pages for details. i.e.

ssh -v username@robot

I did. The last update it gives is that it is trying to conect to the port of the robot, and it stays that way until it times out.

I will try with 3 v's though because I have only tried with one so far. Thanks!