WiFi on BPI M2 plus

[Dmitriy Zhuk]

        Hello, guys.

I use debian server version for my board.

But I can't use WiFi to connect my router.

I have tried wpa_supplicat, but no result.

I used many resources for information, such as

https://www.blackmoreops.com/2014/09/18/connect-to-wifi-network-from-command-line-in-linux/

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/283722/how-to-connect-to-wifi-from-command-line

Maybe, I do something wrong.

Can you help me please?

[Igor]

We are not clairvoyant or mind readers  Please describe your setup as best as possible so we know what your operating environment is like.

 

1. Name of your board:
2. Name of the image you installed:
3. Logs, when you can boot the board: armbianmonitor -u (paste URL to your forum post)
4. If your board does not boot, provide a log from serial console (UART) or at least make and attach a picture, where it stops.
5. Describe the problem the best you can and provide all necessary info that we can reproduce the problem.

[Dmitriy Zhuk]

Thank you for answer and help in advance.

 

My board is Banana Pi M2 Plus.

Name of image is ARMBIAN 5.33 user-built Debian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie) 3.4.113-sun8i

There is log link: http://sprunge.us/fFSg

About my problem.

I try to connect board to my WiFi router.

My steps are following:

1.

root@bananapim2plus:~# wpa_passphrase Home MY_PASSWORD > /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

2.

I modified /etc/network/interfaces for enabling WiFi:

 

 

source /etc/network/interfaces.d/*
# Wired adapter #1

allow-hotplug eth0

#no-auto-down eth0

iface eth0 inet dhcp

#address 192.168.0.100

#netmask 255.255.255.0

#gateway 192.168.0.1

#dns-nameservers 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4

# hwaddress ether # if you want to set MAC manually

# pre-up /sbin/ifconfig eth0 mtu 3838 # setting MTU for DHCP, static just: mtu 3838



# Wireless adapter #1

# Armbian ships with network-manager installed by default. To save you time

# and hassles consider using 'sudo nmtui' instead of configuring Wi-Fi settings

# manually. The below lines are only meant as an example how configuration could

# be done in an anachronistic way:

#

#allow-hotplug wlan0

auto wlan0

iface wlan0 inet dhcp

#address 192.168.0.100

#netmask 255.255.255.0

#gateway 192.168.0.1

#dns-nameservers 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4

wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

# Disable power saving on compatible chipsets (prevents SSH/connection dropouts over WiFi)

#wireless-mode Managed

#wireless-power off


# Local loopback

auto lo

iface lo inet loopback

3.

Rebooting the device.

 

After it, my device is obtaining IP address, for example 169.254.11.71

But a result, there is no internet connection.

I made ping 8.8.8.8

But answer is “Destination Host Unreachable”

How can I connect my board to the internet?

[tkaiser]

37 minutes ago, Dmitriy Zhuk said:

How can I connect my board to the internet?

 

Normally I would say: by following our documentation and that's using 'nmtui-connect' and stop to fiddle around with weird files and configurations. The log you provided (thank you) though looks a bit suspicious. So I would advise to revert all changes you did to /etc/network/interfaces (at least remove everything wlan0 related), reboot, check your AP whether it tried to play 'security by obscurity' (MAC address filter) and then simply use nmtui-connect and use Wi-Fi.

 

BTW: You connected an antenna already?

[Dmitriy Zhuk]

1 hour ago, tkaiser said:

BTW: You connected an antenna already?

Yes, of course.

Thank you for link to documentation. This method works.

But I need method without any dialogues. So I try to use wpa_supplicant.

 

[tkaiser]

2 minutes ago, Dmitriy Zhuk said:

But I need method without any dialogues.

 

Easy, just accept that the way primitive SBC distros do all their stuff is weird/anachronistic. Check /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections -- you define stuff with NM and then deploy profiles.

[Dmitriy Zhuk]

Thank you for hint.

I will try to do this.

[Dmitriy Zhuk]

I have uncommented

#allow-hotplug wlan0

and all works.