Received "1-bay NAS Kit for NanoPi NEO". Used image "nanopi-neo_debian-nas-jessie_4.11.0_20170417.img". Can not mount 2.5 inch hard drive in Linux. Tried both openmediavault web interface and Linux terminal. Linux simply can not read or access hard drives. Tried 3 different hard ...

With the most recent image my Realtek wifi driver was loaded by default. iwconfig utility listed adapter as wlan0. There was no need to do any other steps except edit /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf file: ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=netdev update_config=1 network={ ssid=...

Found it.
Simply edit /etc/rc.local file and comment out useless processes.

Is there any way to disable QtE-Demo from loading?

I am using ssh command line to do everything on Nano Pi NEO. Loading QtE-Demo seems like a useless waste of CPU resources and start up time.

I just received heatsink by mail and put it on small media server in the closet. Closet does not get a lot of ventilation. So I was hoping heatsink would help. cpu_freq utility reports about 15-18 degree reduction in CPU temp. Heatsink seems to be working. Maybe not as effective as I would like, but...

I would like to avoid having to use SD card all together. I have few external hard drives laying around.
Booting from hard drive would make sense for small personal media server.

Is there a way to boot without SD card? Directly boot via hard drive or flash disk connected to the USB?

Thank you "jjm" for very detailed answer. Based on it pin 7 GPIOA17 should be Linux PIN 17. Unfortunately this does not work. I have just tried it by connecting relay to it. Other GPIO pins work (pins on two rows) and switch the relay ON/OFF but not PIN 17. Based on calculation pin 6 GPIOL...

What Linux GPIO numbers do single row Pins 6 and 7 correspond to?

6 GPIOL11/IR-RX - Linux GPIO # ?
7 SPDIF-OUT/GPIOA17 - Linux GPIO # ?

I have got realtek WIFI working on NanoPi NEO. This might not be required once FriendlyARM team provides out of the box support for these drivers. Getting RTL8188CUS working on NanoPi NEO. 1. Add next line to the end of /etc/apt/sources.list : deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ jessie main cont...