SSID and Password change for default access point

Question

Beagle Bone AI board creates wi fi access point with bootup. Default ssid is BeagleBone-XXXX and password is BeagleBone. Can we change both of them? Is there any way to do it?

rramesh1992 · Answer

Hello Prathamesh,

Please check the below steps for changing the SSID and Password for the Beaglebone :

Step: 1 -- > Get the latest updates

BeagleBone Black Rev C:

cd /opt/scripts/tools/

./update_kernel.sh

BeagleBone and BeagleBone Black Rev A/B:

1. opkg update

2. opkg upgrade

And then reboot

Step : 2 -- > Configure WiFiBeagleBone Black Rev C:

1. Edit /etc/networking/interfaces

2. Uncomment the WiFi section and add SSID and password:

auto wlan0

iface wlan0 inet dhcp

wpa-ssid "mySSID"

wpa-psk "mypassword"

BeagleBone and BeagleBone Black Rev A/B, confugure ConnMan:

1. Verify that you have "[WiFi] Enabled = true" in /var/lib/connman/settings

2. Add a new file /var/lib/connman/wifi.config with the following content:

[service_home]

Type =wifi

Name = yourSSID

Security = wpa2-psk

Passphrase = yourPassPhrase

(replace "yourSSID" with the name of your network and replace "yourPassPhrase" with your passphrase. If you use wpa (and not wpa2), you must also change "wpa2-psk" to "wpa".

Restart connman: systemctl restart connman

Regards,

Ramesh Raviselvam