Is there a way to turn the mininmal debian into a network-enabled one?

[Cyberman-tM]

Specifically for the Banana Pi Zero.
The image boots fine, but it seems there is no way to connect to the internet to download updates - I assume this is because the needed firmware would be propietary? Or because it can't be automated to update.

Is there a way to manually add those missing components? None of the usual "standard" tools exist on the image. Or maybe I'm doing everything wrong, I'm not excluding that...

[johang]

It should work. Make sure you use a recent image with the fix for issue #8.

[jjaard]

Just tried on 2 Banana Pi M2 Zero's the image (debian-bookworm-armhf-bei4ah.bin.gz and boot-banana_pi_m2_zero.bin.gz respectively) and it does not getting network at all.
using ifconfig only loop IP is available

For example using ALL-H3-CC H2+ (Tritium) image has internet but does not boot fully (as this is not BPi M2Z image which is expected behaiviour I suppose, sorry for mistakes in logs as they were copied from photo):

| Couldn't find partition muc o | |
| Can't set block device | |
| zimage: Bad magic! | |
| SCRIPT FAILED: continuing..• | |
| MMC: no card present | |
| ** Bad device specification mn 0 ** | |
| Couldn't find partition mnc 0:1 | |
| MC: no card present | |
| ** Bad device specification mnc 0 ** | |
| Couldn't find partition mnc 0:1 | |
| MMC: no card present | |
| ** Bad device specification mmc 0 ** | |
| Couldn't find partition muc 0:1 | |
| MM: no card present | |
| No EFI system partition | |
| No EFI system partition | |
| Failed to persist EFI variables | |
| BootOrder not defined | |
| EFI boot manager: Cannot load any image | |
| MMC: no card present | |
| ** Bad device specification mc 0 xx | |

MMC: no card present

** Bad device specification mmc 0 **

Couldn't find partition mnc 0

Can't set block device

MMC: no card present

** Bad device specification mnc 0 xx

Couldn't find partition mnc o

Found legacy kernel configuration

MMC: no card present

Couldn't find partition mmc 0:1

Device 0: unknown device

ethernet01c30000 Waiting for PHY auto negotiation to complete. done

BOOTP broadcast 1

De arming: no co Re nane: ustng Con80008.g

Using ethernet@1c30000 device

TFTP from server 192.168.8.1: our IP address is 192.168.8.11

Filename

'COABOBOB. ing'.

Load address: 0x42000000

Loading: T T TITTTITT

Retry count exceeded: starting again missing environment variable: preuid

Retrieving file: pelinux.cig/01-02-81-4a-34-e8-df

Using ethernet01c30000 device

IFT from server 192.168.8.1; our IP address is 192.168.8.11

Filename pxelinux.cfg/01-02-81-4a-34-eB-df' •

Load address: 0x43200000

Loading: TITITTTITT

Retry count exceeded: starting again

Retrieving file: pelinux.cfg/COABOBOB

Using ethernet@1c30000 device

TFT from server 192.168.8.1: our IP address is 192.168.8.11

Filename

'pxelinux.cfg COASOBOB'.

Load address: 0x43200000

[johang]

BPi M2 Zero doesn't have ethernet on board, so not surprised ifconfig only shows lo. What did you expect?

[jjaard]

Hmm, I got confused as they are named the same by Banana Pi - used neofetch to check on Armbian:
OS: Armbian (22.11.0-trunk) armv7l
Host: Banana Pi BPI-P2-Zero / M2-Zero
Kernel: 5.19.6-sunxi
Uptime: 16 days, 17 hours, 56 mins
Packages: 1419 (dpkg)
Shell: zsh 5.8
Terminal: /dev/pts/1
CPU: Allwinner sun8i Family (4) @ 1.008GHz
Memory: 239MiB / 490MiB

[jjaard]

[jjaard]

Would appreciate if image for BPi P2 would also be available or P2 and M2 could be combined.

[juergenschorb]

My Bananapi M2 Ultra will not boot with the bullseye image. I follow the follow the instructions on the web-site:

$ wget https://dl.sd-card-images.johang.se/boots/2024-01-01/boot-banana_pi_m2_ultra.bin.gz
$ wget https://dl.sd-card-images.johang.se/debians/2024-01-08/debian-bookworm-armhf-eiph9o.bin.gz
$ zcat boot-banana_pi_m2_ultra.bin.gz debian-bookworm-armhf-eiph9o.bin.gz > sd-card.img
$ dd if=sd-card.img of=/dev/sdXXX

What I am doing wrong?

[wundercat]

Before I tried booting the sdcard, I mounted its Linux FS and created a $MOUNTPT/root/.ssh/authorized_keys file with a public key generated with ssh-keygen.

My Orange Pi Zero LTS booted Johan's image and got on the wired Ethernet. I found its address with nmap and logged in with ssh.
The first-boot had expanded the FS to fill the sdcard. The network is managed by systemd-networkd and systemd-resolved.
I noted the MAC address and assigned it a fixed IP address in the DHCP server. If that's not convenient you could assign a static IP in /etc/systemd/network/whatever.network before booting.

apt update
apt install tzdata locales
dpkg-reconfigure tzdata locales   # if needed

I also needed these. YMMV.
apt install iproute2 iptables nmap netcat-openbsd netstat \ bind9-host less file vim lsof strace usbutils iputils-ping rsyslog