banana pi0 not connecting

[sigmunnd]

Hi,

I am a newbie to the banana pi scene with little or no experience, I have a banana pi0 board with onboard wireless, trouble is I cant connect to it no matter what i try.

I have tried to connect to the banana pi0 wirelessly when using a nintendont retro gaming build with no success as it just wont connect and i am now ready for throwing the thing in a drawer and forgetting about it.

If anyone has any info that could help me solve this issue, could you please post a reply as i am about demented, many thanks in advance.

@sigmunnd You may try first to determine the IP adress for bpi0 and check if you board is booting up correctly. Than if there is anything wrong, i suggest you to try another image which works, and than built the RetroImg manually upon the existing and working one.
Myself i just guess you think everything is working "out of the box", it is not windows nor a mac. it is just an SBC with linux.
Please head over to banana-pi.org for more information upon this. Maybe try to head over to armbian.com, too, and see if there is maybe an working image. But, lastly do some research... WLAN isn't configured as standard, this is somehting you may have to do from console. (using a Monitor, Keyboard etc.)
For starting, i reference you over here, this is quite simple to understand, even it'S not specific for the banana-pi. ( https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/wireless/wireless-cli.md ) Just a hint where to start at. :)

[sigmunnd]

Hi li0nic, thanks for the reply, is there a way i can find the ip address as i dont have an eithernet port to plug into, i will download a different linux os and try that for starters. many thanks

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[dan-and]

If in doubt: connect a USB TTL Adapter. Then you can watch the boot up log of the console.
It's the usual case for every embedded board, so I can highly recommend this way.

you need to solder 3 pins on the banana pi 0, but it should be pretty easy.