Raspberry PI 3 with touchscreen only - cannot complete setup

English Install/Boot/Login
1

Hi all,

I’m running into a wall trying to set up tumbleweed (or even leap) on a pi 3 with only a touchscreen. After the initial setup, a login screen appears. With autologin disabled, no onscreen keyboard, and broken wifi out of the box, I can’t get past this screen.
I know I can complete the setup with a keyboard/mouse or an ethernet cable+ssh, but would prefer not to connect anything else to the pi.

My questions are:

**How can I enable autologin on the pi?
**Editing /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager and setting DISPLAYMANAGER_AUTOLOGIN=“yes” has no effect (possibly because the default pi user is root?)

**Failing autologin, (how) can I enable an onscreen keyboard for the login screen?
**
**Is there a way to get wifi working on firstboot?
**I can make the suggested changes for wifi to /etc/dracut.conf.d/raspberrypi_modules.conf while the microsd card is mounted on my computer, but can’t run mkinitrd for obvious reasons.

**If I can somehow get wifi on firstboot, how can I configure wicd to connect to my wifi?
**Not sure where the wicd config file in located (does it accept network settings in wpa_supplicant.conf?)

2

You put in your username not yes :wink:

Wireless still doesn’t work on Tumbleweed AFAIK… Look through the archives;
https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-arm/

3

LOL! Wow do I feel ridiculous. I kid you not, I first tried root as the username, but probably didn’t save the file or something equally silly and subsequently convinced myself root didn’t work.

Thanks for pointing out the solution!

4

Hi
No question is ridiculous, else it wouldn’t be a help forum :wink:

What I normally do (is with a keyboard) press ctrl+alt+F1 and login as root and quickly create a non root user via;


useradd -m <my_user_name>
passwd <my_user_name>
exit

The -m creates the home directory, then press ctrl+alt+F7 and then login as <my_user_name>.

The other place to ask about the wifi is on IRC Freenode #opensuse-arm and post a query there.

5

Ah I’ve been using opensuse for 15 years and still make dumb mistakes like that. Always good to have a second pair of eyes - much appreciation for the assistance.

I did get the wifi working on tumbleweed once autologin was correctly enabled.
For anyone else in the same situation, removing sdhci_iproc from /etc/dracut.conf.d/raspberrypi_modules.conf, then opening the boot manager in yast and hitting OK runs mkinitrd. Wifi should be up after a reboot.

6

Hi
I see;


ip addr

1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP group default qlen 1000
    link/ether xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet 192.168.10.103/24 brd 192.168.10.255 scope global eth0
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
3: wlan0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group default qlen 1000
    link/ether xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

cat /etc/dracut.conf.d/raspberrypi_modules.conf

add_drivers+=" sdhci-iproc bcm2835-sdhost bcm2835_dma mmc_block dwc2 "
# Workaround for Wifi
#omit_drivers+=" sdhci-iproc"

So it does work… must be bluetooth I was thinking about… (see we always miss stuff :wink: )