OK so I’ve been running Volumio on my RPi Zero 2 W for several weeks with great success.
Logged in today and it says it has an update. OK cool, I’ll update. It gives me an error that I’ve changed some system file and it can’t update. I dig online and find a script from some years ago that shows what file is changed. I don’t even recognize it, it says its missing. Whatever, I’ll just factory reset so I do that.
I go to try to update and after it reboots, it never comes back up! I do a clean install on the SD card and the Volumio wifi network comes up. Go and plug in a monitor and keyboard and run ifconfig and the only network is the loopback. Not detecting the onboard wifi of the Zero 2 W. But this definitely worked in previous versions!
I even moved the card to a Pi 4 (I can’t use this long term, I had to borrow it from another application to test) and it works great there. Wifi comes up, all is good. Move it back to the Zero 2 W and nothing.
Is it possible the wifi drivers for RPi Zero 2 W got broken somehow in this latest update?
In the meantime, until this is resolved, is it possible to download the previous version’s image so I can at least get back to using Volumio? Now I have nothing…
I tried installing Mo0de Audio just because I’ve been meaning to try it out anyway, and it uses the wifi just fine on the same Pi. Same SD card too…
I tried installing Volumio using the image file using Etcher instead of using Raspberry Pi Imager and letting it fetch the image. No difference.
I don’t understand why it was working before the update and now won’t work at all even with a clean install…it’s like it doesn’t even detect that the Wifi is there.
I have exactly the same problem. RPI zero 2w - no wifi connection. After upgrate to newest version 3.601 there is no wifi card visible in system. Wired connection via external usb eternet card works OK. Clean installation on new SD card - the same problem no wifi adapter is visible in system. Previous version of volumio wroks great.
After log in via ssh to volumio and execute journactl -xb I see in logs:
It is interesting though that @Darmur clearly is using the RPi Zero 2 W and his is working fine on the latest update!
I wonder what the difference is. There’s clearly something going on with the update since between the two of us, and the reddit thread I linked, that’s three with seemingly the same issue with the update. But yet it also doesn’t seem to be affecting everyone either…
I’m not sure for it but I’ve heard that RPI 0 2w is assembled with different wifi chip. May be it’s why me and @ms4sman have problem with newest version and @Darmur not. I’m not rpi/volumio/raspbian specialist but I’m sure there is a problem with wifi in newest version of volumio and some rpi zero 2w boards. If you find solution of this problem let me know.
could you please point me where you got this info?
Anyhow, in the latest release we updated the kernel to the official 6.1.70 from Raspberry Pi, it should have all the required drivers for onboard WiFi for all models/variants.
Having s system log would be very helpful, but I know it’s hard without a working WiFi on a PI0… any chanche you can connect an external WiFi dongle or a Ethernet adaptor to the USB-OTG port?
I’m upgrading my volumio next time to 3.601 again. After upgrade I check one more time if wifi is working. - If no I connect USB Ethernet adapter and send a log. But I need some time - upgrade is in progress…
I’m not at home right now to do any testing on mine. When I’m home this evening though (Central Time) I’ll see about connecting a USB ethernet or something to try to pull some logs. If @dgcracker hasn’t already posted information that leads to a solution by then.
