Unreliable WIFI on A64-OLinuXino-1Ge16GW-EA hardware

[robbo]

I am running into very unreliable wifi. It rarely connects to my wireless router on the first try. In fact the only time I've ever seen it work is after a system reboot.
I'm wondering if it is possible that there is something wrong in the image. I'd also appreciate any suggestions on where I should look to debug this further.

Here are the steps I've been doing

• put A64-OLinuXino-bullseye-minimal-20220928-143706.img image on sd card
• boot A64-OLinuXino-1Ge16GW-EA with sd card
• run olinuxino-sd-to-emmc
• remove card and reboot
• login as root
• run:
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  nmcli device wifi connect <SSID> password <password>

• After about 60 seconds, result is
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  Error: Connection activation failed: (7) Secrets were required, but not provided.

After a couple of reboots the wifi did connect, but if I disconnect to perhaps try to connect to another network.

Is anyone else experiencing this? Is there a different image or configuration I need to do for the -EA version of the hardware?

Thanks in advance!

[LubOlimex]

It would be interesting to compare with booting from SD card, does the same behavior exists?

Also make sure to test with the base image "A64-OLinuXino-bullseye-base-20220928-143706.img.7z" and compare the behavior.

Furthermore, it seems like a popular error online, did you try some of the suggestions provided online? Like first check these links:

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/420640/unable-to-connect-to-any-wifi-with-networkmanager-due-to-error-secrets-were-req

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=261458