I am new to the NanoPi and to DietPi, although I have experience with Raspberry Pis, OrangePiZero, and Odroid C0.
I just received a NanoPi Neo Air. My problem is that I am unable to locate the wifi module in DietPi (or in the Armbian Distributions as well, both legacy and nightly builds). I have tried (NR_4.x)_DietPi_v147_NanoPiNEOAir-armv7-(Jessie).img and DietPi_v145_NanoPiNEOAir-armv7-(Jessie).img. There is no wlan0 to be found under iwconfig. When I try
ifup wlan0
its says it can’t locate the device. When dietpi-conf starts it says that a wifi device is not found and when I tried to change the WiFi settings it said
No supported Wifi Hardware was found.
I even attached a WiFi dongle to a female USB port using the USB/I2S/IR Pin pins, and it was unable to find the device.
What is strange is that the internal WiFi module and an external WiFi module works fine with the Friendly Arm distribution nanopi-air-eflasher-sd8g-20170220.img.
Thanks for the reply. However, I tried both diet-pi config and the manual commands, and still I am told that Wifi is not found and that no supported wifi module is available. Iwconfig shows no wlan module.
Has Friendly Arm changed the hardware? WiFi works with their own distribution.
Possibly, or a faulty board, does WiFi work on other images?
What is strange is that the internal WiFi module and an external WiFi module works fine with the Friendly Arm distribution nanopi-air-eflasher-sd8g-20170220.img.
Interesting, must be a change to hardware.
Is there a revision code printed on PCB?
I’ve check both our AiR images, all appear to be working in regards to WiFi:
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DietPi | 13:53 | Thu 30/03/17
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V147 | NanoPi NEO Air (armv7l)
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IP Address | 192.168.0.155
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DietPi-Software is already running. Please complete the setup before continuing.
root@DietPi:~# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11 ESSID:"FuzonWifi"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.447 GHz Access Point: E8:DE:27:4A:D0:66
Bit Rate=52 Mb/s Tx-Power=31 dBm
Retry short limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:
Power Management:off
Link Quality=50/70 Signal level=-60 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
eth0 no wireless extensions.
I also have the V/U2 under EMMC, not sure if it is rev code.
Appears chip is different, on mine:
AP6212
T20FA002
1541
Unfortunately, as the WiFi module is not found (lack of driver support for A model) and I lack this updated board for testing, we’ll need to wait for the ARMbian guys to pick up this change and implement support for it in their build tools. Once done, I can regenerate the image.