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Configure OrangePi Lite WiFi

There are many websites and Youtube videos show you how to install Armbian to OrangePi with a SD-card. There are many ways to connect to the initial console of the device. Most of them tell you to utilize the LAN interface. This is a quick and easy method, however, my OrangePi Lite simply lacks a LAN interface. We need to setup Wifi before we can use it for console connection. But without the console how can we setup Wifi connection?

Finally I used a USB to TTL device. With only 3 wires I connected the device to OrangePi: Rx-Tx, Tx-Rx, and GND-GND. Then I can use PuTTY to bring up the console thru SSH.

Up to this point basically I am following this website: https://www.instructables.com/id/The-OrangePi-Lite/. I continued with the instructions and successfully connect to WiFi, but puzzle why I have do that with so many manual editings. Especially when I edit the /etc/network/interface file, it has a remark say "# Network is managed by Network manage". My question is can Network Manager simplify things?

Finally I find this command from a Youtube video:

$ nmtui 

that allow us to setup WiFi network with a basic GUI interface. I wish I can know this earlier.

Lee Sir
29 Oct 2019
Hong Kong


But this story continues. I found that the PuTTY session connected with Wifi setup by nmtui is not stable. The network halts in about one minute, and I must restart the machine to get it back. With this instability I cannot do anything with the board, it even made me feel like this thing is a scrap. Then I remember when I play with it in Islamabad hotel, the Wifi connection to my phone's hotspot was quite stable. The result is obvious, nmtui, or the network manager, is the devil player.

So I revert to use the manual setup method,

1. Use wpa_phrase to create /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
2. Edit  /etc/network/interfaces to manually setup wlan0
3. Reboot the device

I simply follow through the same website described above, show look for detail there.

Lee Sir
02 Nov 2019
Hong Kong
  

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