Hello! I am on the forum to ask you some questions that I am not able to find the answers to. I bought a 3D printer kit on Aliexpress.com including an Orange pi 3 LTS board. On the card there is an operating system installed and several applications for the printer.
The first problem is that: I would like to activate WIFI on the card. I tried to do this via 2 different ways. The first is with the following command sudo orangepi-config. I go to the network/wifi menu. I chose my WIFI network. I enter the network key and I receive the following error code:
Could not activate connection: Activation failed: IP configuration could not be reserved (not available address, timeout, etc.)
I also tried the following commands:
nmcli dev wifi
nmcli dev wifi connect (ssid) password (pass)
This command gives me the following error code:
Error: Connection activation failed: (7) Secrets were required, but not provided.
I went to the 3D printer forum and talked about it. The advice I got from several members is to do a new and clean installation from scratch.
The second problem is that: After several days of work and inconclusive research, I am not able to do a factory reset and reinstall an operating system that would suit me better. I followed the steps to reformat an SD card with SD Card Formatter, install the operating system image on a SD card with Win32DisckImager. I inserted the SD card into the orange pi 3 LTS. I connected via SSH with Putty and followed the following tutorial: https://jumptuck.com/blog/2023-02-13-install-linux-orange-pi-3-lts-emmc/. Type nand-sata-install to begin the installation process. Choose to boot from eMMC, choose EXT4, then accept the warning that the process will erase all contents of the eMMC memory. After a few minutes you will be given the option to power down the board. Do so and remove the SD Card. Installation of Linux on the eMMC is now complete
I would like if someone, if these possible please, to give me the right steps to follow to activate WIFI and or reinstall a clean operating system of my choice for my Orange pi 3 LTS?
Thank you in advance for your response.
Sincerely,