Hello everyone,

 

First timer here.

I enabled the wlan0 interface on my Orange Pi zero 2w and am able to connect to the internet. However, I am not able to connect to it via SSH or even ping it, (cannot resolve host). I'm using the minimal image available here: https://www.armbian.com/orange-pi-zero-2w/

 

I followed the docs to configure wifi as pointed out here: https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Networking/#connecting-to-wifi-network

 

Currently I'm stuck on how to debug it further. I tried to ping other devices from within the orange pi and it works without any issues. Any advice is very much appreciated 

Alright, I installed the Ubuntu image instead and set up wifi there. Works like a charm. I am not sure if it is an issue with having spaces in the wifi password or not. But everything seems to work out of the box now.

 

Not really a solution, but will mark it as such

Edited January 26, 20251 yr by lumio

9 hours ago, lumio said:

Alright, I installed the Ubuntu image instead

 

Ubuntu image has Network Manager backend. Perhaps that is the reason?

@Igor I thought so too, but I did not test the minimal install with `nm`. I might give it a shot though

So I had some time testing it further and turns out it is indeed an issue when the wifi password contains spaces. I tried a fresh install, followed the instruction above using netplan with networkd.