While not listed on www.orangepi.org/ it is available on www.aliexpress.com/ for $14.44 incl. shipping.
I selected this model because it has build-in Wifi. I don't have an network cable at the printer and therefore I will use Wifi.
Armbian:
Availabe at www.armbian.com/ as desktop or server version, I selected the server version without X server.
Version used: Armbian_5.20_Orangepilite_Debian_jessie_3.4.112.7z
Initial setup:
Download the armbian image archive and write the unpacked image to a microSD card (I used Etcher www.etcher.io to write the image). Then put the card into the orangepi, connect a usb keyboard and a HDMI display, and power it up.
It will show a boot prompt shortly, do not log in! armbian is setting up disk size and a swap partition in the background, you'll have to wait a few minutes (depending on the microSD card speed) until it reboots. Then you can log in as root with the password 1234. It will promt you to change the root password and to set up an additional user. I selected the login name 'user'.
Wifi setup:
The first thing you might want to setup if Wifi, and then you can do all further configuration over ssh, and it has quite a few steps, in my case the SSID in named 'mySSIDhere', just replace it with yours:
Test if the wlan adapter is working at all:
root@orangepilite:~# iw devSet your country specific WLAN profile (for the UK it's GB, as in this example). A list of all country codes is at the time of writing available at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2 - otherwise google for ' ISO / IEC 3166 alpha2 country code' (replace with your country code):
phy#0
Interface wlan0
ifindex 3
type managed
root@orangepilite:~#
root@orangepilite:~# iw reg set GB Bring the adapter up:
root@orangepilite:~# ip link set dev wlan0 upScan for access points (without the grep it will display a lot more info):
root@orangepilite:~# iw dev wlan0 scan | grep SSIDIf your access point isn't using encryption you can connect already:
SSID: mySSIDhere
root@orangepilite:~# iw dev wlan0 connect mySSIDhereCheck a few times until the connection is there, either it says 'Not connected' or it shows an info like this:
root@orangepilite:~# iw dev wlan0 linkGet an IP addresss over DHCP (I'm assuming you're using DHCP on your Wifi network, as most users do):
Connected to 00:00:00:00:00:00 (on wlan0)
SSID: mySSIDhere
freq: 2472
signal: -72 dBm
tx bitrate: 150.0 MBit/s
root@orangepilite:~#
root@orangepilite:~# dhclient -v wlan0
If your access point is configured with WPA it's a little bit more complicated, replace myPasswordHere with the actual password:
root@orangepilite:~# wpa_passphrase mySSIDhere myPasswordHere >/root/wpa.confCheck a few times until the connection is there, either it says 'Not connected' or it shows an info like this:
root@orangepilite:~# cat /root/wpa.conf
network={
ssid="mySSIDhere"
#psk="myPasswordHere"
psk=04817c03bb5fd9d1c6d561a881f192da77501b47d0ac80598eb44191c603c516
}
root@orangepilite:~#
root@orangepilite:~# iw dev wlan0 linkGet an IP addresss over DHCP (I'm assuming you're using DHCP on your Wifi network, as most users do):
Connected to 00:00:00:00:00:00 (on wlan0)
SSID: mySSIDhere
freq: 2472
signal: -72 dBm
tx bitrate: 150.0 MBit/s
root@orangepilite:~#
root@orangepilite:~# dhclient -v wlan0
Now it's time to test if ssh is working, figure out your ip address with ifconfig and test ssh. I got IP address 192.168.0.5 and connected with it:
ifconfig wlan0
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet addr:192.168.0.5 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
[...]
root@orangepilite:~# ssh 192.168.0.5
root@192.168.1.108's password:
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Welcome to ARMBIAN Debian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie) 3.4.112-sun8i
System load: 0.02 Up time: 2 hours Local users: 3
Memory usage: 12 % of 494Mb IP: 192.168.1.108
CPU temp: 61°C
Usage of /: 9% of 15G
root@orangepilite:~#
Now you can switch to your PC and connect with ssh (on Windows you can use putty (free, www.putty.org), MobaXter (free for personal use, mobaxterm.mobatek.net), SecureCRT ($99, www.vandyke.com) or any other ssh client).
The most important thing is to write the Wifi settings into the configuration file '/etc/network/interfaces', so here it goes (without the use of editors like vi or nano). :
root@orangepilite:~# cat /root/wpa.confPrepare a text document that you can easily copy and paste with the following contents (replacing the text behind wpa-ssid and wpa-psk with the values from your '/root/wpa.conf':
network={
ssid="mySSIDhere"
#psk="myPasswordHere"
psk=04817c03bb5fd9d1c6d561a881f192da77501b47d0ac80598eb44191c603c516
}
echo "# Local loopbackThen select it all, copy it and paste it over to your ssh session:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
# Wlan
auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wpa-ssid mySSIDhere
wpa-psk 04817c03bb5fd9d1c6d561a881f192da77501b47d0ac80598eb44191c603c516" > /etc/network/interfaces
root@orangepilite:~# echo "# Local loopback
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
# Wlan
auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wpa-ssid mySSIDhere
wpa-psk 04817c03bb5fd9d1c6d561a881f192da77501b47d0ac80598eb44191c603c516" > /etc/network/interfaces
root@orangepilite:~#
The county code is to be written to a config file '/etc/default/crda' as well, so here it goes (replace with your country code):
root@orangepilite:~# echo "REGDOMAIN=GB" > /etc/default/crda
All config files are written, so it's time to reboot in order to test it:
root@orangepilite:~# syncIf you didn't make any errors you can connect with ssh to the orangepi after this reboot.
root@orangepilite:~# reboot
Thanks man!
ReplyDeleteYou make my day!
With Armbian 5.69 the location of /root/wpa.conf changed to /wpa_supplicant.conf and needs two additional lines:
ReplyDeletectrl_interface=/run/wpa_supplicant
update_config=1