Enabling wifi

[c4tich]

Hi Marcus, thanks for your reply. ifconfig shows me eth0 and lo. Additionally, iwconfig shows me eth0, sit0, lo, all of which say "no wireless extensions". This shouldn't be important, but I issued those commands via ssh.

For comparision to your setup, isuing 'sudo iwconfig' on my setup (also via SSH, but on debian instead of ubuntu) gets me:

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pfeerick@pine64:~$ sudo iwconfig eth0      no wireless extensions. wlan0     IEEE 802.11bgn  ESSID:"Anembo (Billion)"  Nickname:"<WIFI@REALTEK>"           Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.422 GHz  Access Point: 60:03:47:07:7D:85           Bit Rate:150 Mb/s   Sensitivity:0/0           Retry:off   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off           Encryption key:****-****-****-****-****-****-****-****   Security mode:open           Power Management:off           Link Quality=100/100  Signal level=-63 dBm  Noise level=0 dBm           Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0           Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0 dummy0    no wireless extensions. sit0      no wireless extensions. lo        no wireless extensions. wlan1     unassociated  Nickname:"<WIFI@REALTEK>"           Mode:Managed  Frequency=2.412 GHz  Access Point: Not-Associated           Sensitivity:0/0           Retry:off   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off           Encryption key:off           Power Management:off           Link Quality=0/100  Signal level=0 dBm  Noise level=0 dBm           Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0           Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

I take it you're running the pine64 headless - ie. sans X11/GUI interface? Just means you can't use the nice easy GUI config tools. You probably need to add some stuff to the /etc/network/interfaces file. For mine, I have 

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# The wireless interface auto wlan0 iface wlan0 inet dhcp wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf iface default inet dhcp # Disable Secondary Wireless Lan (8723bs Has Two Interfaces) iface wlan1 inet manual

and in /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf I have

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network={ ssid="Wireless Network Name" psk="network-password" proto=RSN key_mgmt=WPA-PSK pairwise=CCMP auth_alg=OPEN }

I'd set those two files up for your config, and then reboot, and see what happens. Otherwise, after creating the appropriate entries in /etc/network/interfaces, you should be able to start it up by going 'sudo ifup wlan0' (to start up wlan0).

I made the proposed changes and it doesn't work, the command sudo iwconfig wlan0 gives the following output

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wpa_supplicant: /sbin/wpa_supplicant daemon failed to start run-parts: /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/wpasupplicant exited with return code 1 Failed to bring up wlan0.