Wi-Fi and Bluetooth USB dongles for Raspberry Pi 1 model B with Raspbian Jessie

Things got really improved since last time I've been trying to expand my Raspberry Pi 1 model B by Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.

I am still using cheap Chinese USB dongles. This time my Raspberry is running Raspbian Jessie.

• 802.11n Wi-Fi dongle with Realtek's RTL8188EUS chipset
• Bluetooth adapter compatible with Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode) adapter.

Wi-Fi

To make Wi-Fi work, just add information about your network to /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf file. Actually, you can add multiple networks. Raspberry will try to connect to the first available.

network={
    ssid="The_ESSID_from_earlier"
    psk="Your_wifi_password"
}

Maybe you will need to restart the interface by sudo wpa_cli reconfigure. Check out the official documentation.

Bluetooth

First of all, start the bluetooth console by typing bluetoothctl. Everything else will be done in the console.

agent on

default-agent

scan on
    ...here you should see the list of "pairable" devices
pair XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX

connect XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
    ...in case you get following error Access denied: org.bluez.Error.Rejected in syslog,
       you need to "trust" the device.
trust XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX