Jetson Orin Nano lame out of the gate

[FlashPackets]

Perhaps the best solution to my Orin not working is just to return it to the vendor and let market forces grind away until Nvidia fixes whatever is wrong.

When a fresh SD card is started there are a few screen flashes that seem completely normal to my experience with Linux systems and previous versions of the Nano. A panther will appear as the background and then before presenting any setup such as language, time zone or EULA try to establish a WiFi connection and immediately hang. At the very least on would expect the startup code to see that there is also a wired Ethernet connection and just go with that and abandon any effort to use the WiFi. But NO it just hangs! This is VERY BAD behavior! The debug port is also dead. It’s certainly not responsive though it obviously works in the background as the host finds it at /dev/ttyACM0.

OK , if Murphy is going to be difficult lets try the SDKmanager. I’ve only been able to get this to function past step 2 after a fresh boot of the host, a Ubuntu 18.04, but not to completion.

My experience with the Orin is so different than that of the original Nano that I’m at a loss to know how to proceed.

Regards

[TomNVIDIA]

Hello,

I am going to move your topic to the Jetson forum so the support folks have visibility.

[FlashPackets]

Frankly, I have enormous difficulty finding the correct forum. It must be challenging to manage what must be the most excellent documentation system I’ve ever been pleased to use. It would be useful if once having logged in to have some sort of history. Say a tab in the browser that says “My world”

[TomNVIDIA]

Hi @FlashPackets,

Thanks for the feedback. We do offer an extensive search on the forums. You can also go to “My Posts” to see all your activity.

Let me know if you have any questions about the forums, I am happy to answer.

Cheers,
Tom