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