pkfox Posted December 19, 2019 Posted December 19, 2019 Hi All, here is a quick howto for flashing a Nanopi M4 V2 I did this using a Linux box and a USB TTL serial cable) 1) Download an image from https://www.armbian.com/nanopi-m4-v2/ 2) Start a terminal 3) cd to the folder containing your download 4) Unzip your download to extract the *.img file 5) Connect an sdcard or eMMC to your pc ( I used a transcend adapter ) 6) Run lsblk to identify your device, in my case it returned /dev/sdc 7) Run mount to ensure it is not mounted and unmount it if necessary ( umount /dev/sdc or umount /dev/sdc1 ) 8) Run dd if =NameOfYourImage.img of=/dev/sdc status=progress 9) When completed ( it takes a while ) make a directory to enable you to mount your device ( mkdir /mnt/MyDevice) 10) Run mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt/MyDevice 11) nano /mnt/MyDevice/etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf 12) Add these two lines and save the file [device] wifi.scan-rand-mac-address=no 13) Unmount the device (umount /mnt/MyDevice) 14) Put the device( sdcard or eMMC ) in the M4 - DO NOT APPLY POWER YET ! 15) Connect a serial cable to the UART pins on the board and attach the other end to a USB port on your PC 16) Issue this command picocom -b 1500000 /dev/ttyUSB0 ( I'm typing this at work but I think this is correct ) this should connect you to the M4 17) Apply power to the M4 and you should see the boot output 18) Login as root with password 1234 ( you'll be prompted to change the password ) 19) Run armbian-config to configure wifi 20) Ensure you have an ip address ( ip a ) and look for wlan0 21) Reboot the M4 having removed the serial cable first. In my case It all worked - your case may be different.
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