BeagleBone Black Wireless and not a WiFi in Sight?

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Hello,

I am trying to update/upgrade my board w/ this data:

  1. Linux BeagleBone 5.10.168-ti-r72 #1bullseye SMP PREEMPT Sat Sep 30 03:37:21 UTC 2023 armv7l GNU/Linux
  2. BeagleBoard.org Debian Bullseye IoT Image 2023-10-07

Seth

P.S. I cannot get wifi to work so far. Oh…I am using Bullseye and just trying to update via wpa_supplicant.

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from my notes:

Configure wifi
see:

2023, connman is out, systemd-netword is in
https://wiki.debian.org/SystemdNetworkd

GL

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@amf99 ,

I do not understand. It has auth SSID and Passcode ideas like most but my credentials do not work.

Seth

P.S. I am here. I know my SSID and passcode. So, it is bewildering to me why all of a sudden, I am without WiFi capabilities. I did try to set up WiFi a while back on a hidden SSID. No go for whatever reason. Anyway, since then, I prompted the SSID to not be so hidden. It is free to bug…blah.

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more notes:
for hidden ssid, add “scan_ssid=1” to network group below (verified, 10/2023)
sudo iw wlan0 scan | grep SSID

network={}, the network group thing above

do you get your SSID when ya run the scan?
remember ya had issues before with a hidden SSID,

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Hello again…I am doin’ some other stuff right now but I will get on the wifi kick soon.

Replies on the way!

Also…

ctrl_interface=DIR=/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=netdev
update_config=1
p2p_disabled=1
#country=US

network={
        ssid="Gafter"
        psk="1800_##?_BBAI"
}

Does this look right?

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  1. Linux BeagleBone 5.10.168-ti-r72 #1bullseye SMP PREEMPT Sat Sep 30 03:37:21 UTC 2023 armv7l GNU/Linux is the kernel while…

  2. BeagleBoard.org Debian Bullseye IoT Image 2023-10-07 is the image

sudo iw wlan0 scan | grep SSID shows my SSID plain Jane.

Seth

P.S. Here is the info. about the failure in installing with apt update.

Err:1 http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security InRelease
  Temporary failure resolving 'security.debian.org'
Err:2 http://repos.rcn-ee.com/debian bullseye InRelease
  Temporary failure resolving 'repos.rcn-ee.com'
Err:3 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye InRelease
  Temporary failure resolving 'deb.debian.org'
Err:4 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye-updates InRelease
  Temporary failure resolving 'deb.debian.org'
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
All packages are up to date.
W: Failed to fetch http://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/bullseye/InRelease  Temporary failure resolving 'deb.debian.org'
W: Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/debian-security/dists/bullseye-security/InRelease  Temporary failure resolving 'security.debian.org'
W: Failed to fetch http://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/bullseye-updates/InRelease  Temporary failure resolving 'deb.debian.org'
W: Failed to fetch http://repos.rcn-ee.com/debian/dists/bullseye/InRelease  Temporary failure resolving 'repos.rcn-ee.com'
W: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

Should I try bookworm?

Hmm…I think it is the location of the beacon:

Inter-| sta-|   Quality        |   Discarded packets               | Missed | WE
 face | tus | link level noise |  nwid  crypt   frag  retry   misc | beacon | 22

See…I have noise and that usually equates to lengthy distances in reception. Right? I will try to get closer… Argh!

Distance…DISTANCE! That was it. I am sorry to harass everyone again…