Thanks to the latest Armbian and my own script - I now have a NanoPi Neo (two of them actually) running everything I want - Node-Red, Mosquitto, SQLITE3 etc..... got control of serial ports  - marvelous.

 

I have only one problem - I have no idea despite several experiments - how to get WIFI working on the standard cheap Wifi dongles you get on Ebay. (usually say 802.11n on the black plastic end).

 

Anyone succeeded with this?

 

Pete.

 

Did you try this guide?

 

http://forum.armbian.com/index.php/topic/1237-tutorial-opi-one-wireless-success/

Those low cost USB chips are most likely MT7601 and if you got such it's possible that they were build into ... try loading mt* module or by extracting build scenario from here:

https://github.com/igorpecovnik/lib/blob/master/extras/mt7601.sh

 

I got few and they work. Speed is little low but if this is not an issue they are just fine.

@scargill - Pete - have you done an "lsusb" to identify the dongle. If you do that I will happily help you sort it out.

 

... and thanks for your blog ... you are responsible for spiking my interest in all this stuff 

 

Jason

I'm using some of those WiFi USB too, some are effectively MT7601 (btw, /lib/firmware/mt7601.bin needs to be rename or copied as /lib/firmware/mt7601u.bin), but some others are r8188eu, which requires to install firmware-realtek.