NanoPi Neo Air WiFi Not Working

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@rlsten

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.

Hi Rod,

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:

 ───────────────────────────────────────
 DietPi     | 13:53 | Thu 30/03/17
 ───────────────────────────────────────
 V147       | NanoPi NEO Air (armv7l)
 ───────────────────────────────────────
 IP Address | 192.168.0.155
 ───────────────────────────────────────
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.