Does anyone have wifi running on an RPi400 with Debian 64 Buster or
Bullseye?
I've got wifi running on Raspberry Pi OS 32 bit on the RPi400, but on
neither of the above.
There were a few hints via Google about needing a new driver for the
RPi400 wifi device, but nothing concrete.
John
On 2/28/2021 6:49 AM, Alan Corey wrote:
Right, I wasn't exactly recommending running raspi-config on a
non-raspian system but looking at how it does things and doing them
manually. One of the things I dislike about Debian (I haven't looked
at others) is that there's an ever-increasing hodgepodge of
specialized little scripts. If you've been using it awhile you're
probably not in the habit of re-reading documentation to see if
somebody changed how you're officially supposed to do something.
But raspi-config is a place to look up things like how to boot to a
command line, or how to configure locales or change your keyboard
layout. And it's maintained, unlike some ancient documentation that
should be banished but is still out there.
On Sun, Feb 28, 2021, 6:17 AM Andrew M.A. Cater <amaca...@einval.com
<mailto:amaca...@einval.com>> wrote:
On Sun, Feb 28, 2021 at 02:16:29AM -0800, Rick Thomas wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2021, at 10:10 PM, Alan Corey wrote:
> > There are scripts for those, keyboard and language too. Also
WiFi country, I forget what else. Locales is in there.
> >
> > Take a look at a recent raspi-config. I think Odroid, maybe
the Pine64 bunch has a generic-ized version of that. Armbian
probably does too. Raspi-config is just a Bash script that uses
Whiptail for its menus. Parts of it are useful on other
things. It's on Github somewhere.
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 25, 2021, 11:09 PM Rick Thomas
<rick.tho...@pobox.com <mailto:rick.tho...@pobox.com>> wrote:
> >>�
>
> Thanks! Alan...
>
> So, here's what I found...
>
> Immediately after the first boot of the SD card, as root, do the
following:
>
> #Get the raspi-config utility:
> wget
https://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/pool/main/r/raspi-config/raspi-config_20200601_all.deb
<https://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/pool/main/r/raspi-config/raspi-config_20200601_all.deb>
-P /tmp
> #Install packages it needs:
> apt-get install libnewt0.52 whiptail parted triggerhappy
lua5.1 alsa-utils -y
> sudo apt-get install -fy
> #Install the utility itself:
> dpkg -i /tmp/raspi-config_20200601_all.deb
> #And run it
> raspi-config
>
> It will give you a bunch of customizations you might want to
do. I can personally vouch that you'll need to at least do
options (1) change the root password and set up a non-root user,
(2) Configure the network, and (4) set localizations (timezone,
keyboard, locale, and a few others).
>
> The 20200601 version happens to be the latest as of this
writing. But just to be sure, you can use the tool itself
(option 8) to check for and install any updated version.
> Easy!
>
> Rick
And whoosh - you've created a FrankenDebian and dependencies on a
Raspberry
Pi OS that you don't run.. Raspi-config is a collection of
shell scripts. Gunnar's Raspberry Pi images are deliberately small.
If you want to reconfigure locale -
apt-get install locales ; dpkg-reconfigure locales
(this last as root / root equivalent using sudo)
Timezone: dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
There are good Debian commands that will work on every Debian
system you
come across :-)
All the very best, as ever,
Andy C.
