Enabling wifi

[hawk]

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

Code:

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 

Code:

# 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

Code:

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 am using debian also and followed your instructions in your reply to other member and now my Pine is on my wireless network. Thanks for providing instructions to get it working.

hawk