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Problems using turtlebot with wifi connection

Hello, I am currently using my turtlebot on an ethernet connection, and it works just fine, but I would like to set it up for a wireless network. I have the laptop and the workstation connected. I can have them ping each other and I can SSH into the laptop. However, when I start the service and try to launch the dashboard, it gives me an error saying it cannot communicate with the master. I have triple-checked my ROSMASTERURI and ROS_HOSTNAME environment variables on the laptop and the workstation and they are correct, and I have also checked the ~/.bashrc to make sure they are set correctly (which they are). I cannot seem to figure this out. Any insight that can be provided would be greatly appreciated

Asked by randrews33 on 2012-10-18 11:21:08 UTC

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Can you please provide the following information: what's the IP addresses of the workstation and the laptop's wifi interface? Which ROS_MASTER_URI settings were you using?

Asked by Lorenz on 2012-10-18 23:12:40 UTC

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Did you do "ssh -X turtlebot@IPaddress" ? I'm not sure this will help... but when going through the tutorial, I found that it did.

Asked by joe.s on 2012-10-18 16:50:00 UTC

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