I have a WiFi stick now and things are better.
I boot up the monobrick firmware off the SD card, wifi works on 192.168.1.115 and when I connect with winscp I see the wifi startup in the startuplog:
Starting process: killall with arguments: wpa_supplicant
killall: wpa_supplicant: no process killed
Starting process: ip with arguments: link show wlan0
Starting process: ip with arguments: link show wlan0
Starting process: ip with arguments: link show wlan0
Starting process: rm with arguments: /mnt/bootpar/wpa_supplicant.conf
Starting process: /home/root/lejos/bin/startwlan
Start WiFi…
Check configuration…
hostname is EV3
searching for wlan
wpa_state=DISCONNECTED
Searching for AP…
wpa_state=ASSOCIATING
Searching for AP…
wpa_state=COMPLETED
bssid=84:26:15:5c:b1:49
ssid=CalvertWireless
Request IP address…
udhcpc (v1.13.2) started
Sending discover…
Sending select for 192.168.1.115…
Lease of 192.168.1.115 obtained, lease time 86400
adding dns 192.168.1.1
Starting process: ip with arguments: link show wlan0
When I try and connect from VS2015
_EV3 = New Brick(Of Sensor, Sensor, Sensor, Sensor)("wifi")
_EV3.Connection.Open()
I get a ConnectionException with innerexception of “Failed to find EV3″
If you have any ideas I’d be most grateful