I find it odd but this does not work for me. I do the following: 1) Login using SSH as root 2) Edit /etc/hostname - enter "NP2-0" 3) sync 4) reboot Then I: 1) Login using SSH as root 2) Type hostname - The nanoPi responds: "FriendlyARM" 3) check /etc/hostname - it still contains ...

@davef: Thanks for your thoughts in this. My objective is to use a reasonably sized patch antenna to provide coverage for a group of sensors placed in a field by students. The default antennas used are fine for bench testing, but ill suited for many real applications. The ability to use an alternati...

I need to use an external directional antenna with my NanoPi2's. The availability of the ufl connector is one of the most useful features of this design for my needs. Do I need to remove the on-board antenna to use the the external antenna effectively? I plan to house the entire project in a die-cas...

I don't know, I'll have to try that. I was suspecting something of that sort, but edits to the /etc/hostname file do persist. But other stuff may get uncrunched to RAM on boot. I'll post whatever I find. I was hoping that someone would actually know. Lots of stuff keeps changing, causing confusion t...

Hello, I have a couple of NanoPi2's and I have been struggling to change the hostname of each in a way that will persist across reboots. This is a familiar problem to users across a lot of Linux distros over the years, and I think that I have tried all of the well known tricks to fix it. I've used t...