current NOOBs install cannot see wifi interface on RPi 3B

[thezerocool]

"No wireless interfaces found" in Wifi GUI tool on the current version of noobs with a fresh install. Known working wifi on the previous install with a Raspberry Pi 3B. Changing network preferences in openplotter makes no difference.

NOOBS version: 2.8.1 Release date: 2018-04-24 Based on Raspbian (Debian Stretch) Release date: 2018-04-18 Default login: pi / raspberry Kernel version: 4.14 Download: https://archive.org/details/openplotter_v1.0.0_noobs Size: 1.1G SHA-1: 751e55c82a9bc30c66895dfe73a61248daddcc86

I will test the IMG version next.

[thezerocool]

to update, it seems the IMG didnt have the same problem, wifi mode was easily set to client and wifi points appeared fine.

[sailoog]

I have just tested a fresh NOOBS install and wifi is working right for me. On first run the access point is set ok. If I set "client" in Network tab, I can connect to a router without problem after reset.

[dlparker]

I am also getting this problem. The access point is working properly on wlan1, but I get the "no wireless interfaces found" on mouse over of the network applet at the top of the screen.

When I try sudo ifup wlan0, I get this in /var/log/system:

Mar 12 13:38:28 openplotter wpa_supplicant[1493]: Successfully initialized wpa_supplicant
Mar 12 13:38:28 openplotter wpa_supplicant[1493]: Could not read interface wlan0 flags: No such device
Mar 12 13:38:28 openplotter wpa_supplicant[1493]: nl80211: Driver does not support authentication/association or connect commands
Mar 12 13:38:28 openplotter wpa_supplicant[1493]: nl80211: deinit ifname=wlan0 disabled_11b_rates=0
Mar 12 13:38:28 openplotter wpa_supplicant[1493]: Could not read interface wlan0 flags: No such device
Mar 12 13:38:28 openplotter wpa_supplicant[1493]: rfkill: Cannot get wiphy information
Mar 12 13:38:28 openplotter wpa_supplicant[1493]: Could not read interface wlan0 flags: No such device
Mar 12 13:38:28 openplotter wpa_supplicant[1493]: WEXT: Could not set interface 'wlan0' UP
Mar 12 13:38:28 openplotter wpa_supplicant[1493]: wlan0: Failed to initialize driver interface

Kinda stumped at this point, will have to keep searching. This AP + client thing is cool, but new, so bugs would not be surprising.

This is the 1.0.0 NOOBS after upgrade to 1.2.0 (see also #245 ), using a Pi 3B.

Don't know if it is relevant, but I get these messages on every reboot:

Mar 12 13:34:03 openplotter kernel: [    4.893630] brcmfmac mmc1:0001:1 wlan1: renamed from wlan0

Also, none of the usual methods for finding wlan0 actually find it:

pi@openplotter:/etc/network/interfaces.d $ iw dev
phy#0
    Interface wlan1
        ifindex 3
        wdev 0x1
        addr b8:27:eb:38:d0:6d
        ssid openplotter
        type AP
        channel 6 (2437 MHz), width: 20 MHz, center1: 2437 MHz
        txpower 31.00 dBm
pi@openplotter:/etc/network/interfaces.d $ ip link
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000  link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000 link/ether b8:27:eb:6d:85:38 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
3: wlan1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000 link/ether b8:27:eb:38:d0:6d brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
pi@openplotter:/etc/network/interfaces.d $ 

Also, plugging in a WiFi dongle results in the new device getting assigned wlan0, and everything works.

[lelesrc]

up. with a fresh installation (raspberry 3b+, openplotter noobs image) I can only get the client mode working; in client + ap mode, only the ap works on wlan1 and wlan0 won't go up at startup nor with ifup

As a side note, in client mode update to 1.2.0 beta fails when upgrading hostapd:

...
Setting up hostapd (2:2.6-21~bpo9~rpt1) ...
Job for hostapd.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status hostapd.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
invoke-rc.d: initscript hostapd, action "restart" failed.
● hostapd.service - Advanced IEEE 802.11 AP and IEEE 802.1X/WPA/WPA2/EAP Authenticator
   Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/hostapd.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: activating (auto-restart) (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2019-06-11 16:13:38 UTC; 29ms ago
  Process: 30442 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/hostapd -P /run/hostapd.pid -B $DAEMON_OPTS ${DAEMON_CONF} (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Jun 11 16:13:38 openplotter systemd[1]: Failed to start Advanced IEEE 802.11 AP and IEEE 802.1X/WPA/WPA2/EAP Authenticator.
Jun 11 16:13:38 openplotter systemd[1]: hostapd.service: Unit entered failed state.
Jun 11 16:13:38 openplotter systemd[1]: hostapd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
dpkg: error processing package hostapd (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 hostapd
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

#### ERROR. ABORTING, PRESS ENTER TO EXIT ####