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