Pre-Configure Wifi on Pine64 without Keyboard/mouse

[bortek]

In this situation I would do this.

Connect to wifi internet on laptop (running windows I hope)
connect cat5 to pine board.
internet share the wifi connection to the ethernet adaptor by right clicking the wifi adaptor and clicking properties, then go to the sharing tab and enable it. This sets up windows built in dhcp server.
download netscan and putty.
use netscan to find ip of pine board. It will be something like 192.168.137.xxx
use putty to ssh in to the pine board and configure wifi that way.

Sorry the late reply and no links but its like 6.45am here


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Thanks for a great tip Ghelorn! I once did this and know how it goes, but forgotten it completely  I had to improvise with DHCP on Win10 with a separate DHCP server as Win10 did not want to allocate IP. 

Now I only need to get hold of Ethernet cable. I hope Pine64 supports a regular cable from PC-PC connection like PI does (instead of crossover cable) .