Unable to get WiFi working on BBBW using the latest Debian image

On Wed, 22 Nov 2017 02:38:40 -0800 (PST), William
<panadrag@gmail.com> declaimed the following:

I always use a 5V power supply.
Got the image, flashed SD with Etcher, flashed the BBBW.

Same result as before: it runs until "*beaglebone login:", *then freezes.
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  Probably too late now, but I have to wonder why you are starting the
procedure with a flasher-image.

  I'd consider it safer (presuming one has a working eMMC already) to use
a "run on SD card" image for testing. That way, if it hangs, one can remove
the SD card and reboot to the working image.

  Only after getting the SD card image to run properly would I convert it
to a flasher.

Well, you only have the "TX" and "GND" pin connected on the debug usart..

Hook up the "RX" and then you can login...

Regards,

I have only a 5V TTL serial cable, used only for receiving debug messages on PC (I don’t want to burn something connecting the TX and V since voltage is different).
For a normal SSH connection I use the mini USB cable and here is the problem.
Since now I used with no problem BBB rev C and BBB industrial.
Also this BBBW worked properly when recognized as BBB. (with #enable_uboot_overlays=1 disabled from /boot/uEnv.txt)

Hi ,

I was also facing same issue. I tried with different images( 8iot and LXQT.6,8.7,9.1,9.2,9.3) debian LXQT 8.6 able to detect the wlna0 some times ,But unable to configure the wifi using connmanctl commands

Last login: Sun Nov 6 15:29:31 UTC 2016 on ttyGS0
Linux beaglebone 4.4.30-ti-r64 #1 SMP Fri Nov 4 21:23:33 UTC 2016 armv7l

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ifconfig
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 50:65:83:e1:e5:ff
inet6 addr: fe80::5265:83ff:fee1:e5ff/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST DYNAMIC MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:52 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:13486 (13.1 KiB)

debian@beaglebone:~$ sudo connmanctl

enable wifi
Error wifi: Already enabled

connmanctl> scan wifi // not working
connmanctl> scan wifi // not working
connmanctl> scan wifi // not working
connmanctl> scan wifi // not working

Here the image details
uname -a
Linux beaglebone 4.4.30-ti-r64 #1 SMP Fri Nov 4 21:23:33 UTC 2016 armv7l GNU/Lix
debian@beaglebone:~$ cat /etc/dogtag
BeagleBoard.org Debian Image 2016-11-06

scan wifi

interface configuration ( /et/networ/interface)

iface wlan0 inet dhcp
auto wlan0
wpa-ssid “xxxx”
wpa-psk “xxxxxx”

connmanctl

tether wifi disable
enable wifi
scan wifi
services
agent on
connect wifi_*_managed_psk
quit

Please let me know any one have solutions. This little bit urgent. I am working on this issue from 10 days .I didn’t find any solution.

Thank you,

Regards,
Srinivas

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