There are two ways to connect nanosaur on your Wi-Fi network using Monitor-attached Mode or USB device Mode

If you don’t have a monitor and a keyboard near you, the USB device Mode will be fast to set up the connection.

Plug Wi-Fi dongle

:bulb: Hint You can find the WiFi Dongle in nanosaur BoM

Bring your Wi-Fi dongle and plug in one of the free USB port slot available.

Monitor-attached Mode

For this you need to connect the following items on nanosaur’s NVIDIA Jetson.

  • HDMI monitor
  • USB keyboard
  • USB mouse

Now follow these steps:

  1. Switch on nanosaur and wait to access to ubuntu desktop.
  2. Open the network menu on the top right (like the picture below)
  3. Setup your Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi menu on Jetson Desktop
Wi-Fi menu on Jetson Desktop

USB device Mode

With USB Device Mode, Jetson presents 3 different USB Device Class end-points to the PC that it got connected to. For this you need a USB cable between your desktop and nanosaur.

They function as

  • USB mass storage device (you see L4T-README drive mounted on your PC, like a USB thumbdrive)
  • USB serial (like the common “FTDI” USB to serial adapter)
  • USB network interface card (like a virtual Ethernet adapter)

With the virtual Ethernet adapter functionality, Jetson forms a virtual local Ethernet network with Jetson being 192.168.55.1 and your PC being 192.168.55.100. So you can actually SSH login from your (laptop) PC by specifying 192.168.55.1, if you have already set up your account (with username and password).

Now from the terminal write:

nmcli device

It will appear an output like this:

$ nmcli device
DEVICE  TYPE      STATE         CONNECTION
l4tbr0  bridge    connected     l4tbr0
wlan0   wifi      disconnected  --
eth0    ethernet  unavailable   --
dummy0  dummy     unmanaged     --
rndis0  ethernet  unmanaged     --
usb0    ethernet  unmanaged     --
lo      loopback  unmanaged     --

Then you can list all the wireless networks (SSDI) in the area using:

nmcli device wifi list

It will appear an output like this:

$ nmcli device wifi list
IN-USE  SSID                           MODE   CHAN  RATE        SIGNAL  BARS  SE
        --                             Infra  6     195 Mbit/s  82      ▂▄▆█  WP
        --                             Infra  6     195 Mbit/s  82      ▂▄▆█  WP
        --                             Infra  6     195 Mbit/s  75      ▂▄▆_  WP
        MY_WIFI_AP                     Infra  6     195 Mbit/s  70      ▂▄▆_  WP
        --                             Infra  6     195 Mbit/s  70      ▂▄▆_  WP
        *********                      Infra  1     405 Mbit/s  64      ▂▄▆_  WP
        ************                   Infra  153   405 Mbit/s  64      ▂▄▆_  WP
...

To connect to your wireless network (AP, access point), issue the commands below.

sudo nmcli device wifi connect <MY_WIFI_AP> password <MY_WIFI_PASSWORD>

It will appear an output like this:

$ sudo nmcli device wifi connect <MY_WIFI_AP> password <MY_WIFI_PASSWORD>
Device 'wlan0' successfully activated with '2a26d5ca-****-****-****-**************'.

Nanosaur now is connected on your WiFi!

If you are installing nanosaur, follow the installation

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