Installing Open Media Vault on Raspberry Pi 4 & Fixing WiFi Network Error
Installing Open Media Vault onto a Raspberry Pi 4 often results in loosing your WiFi (wlan0) and Ethernet (eth0) connections. Installing on a WiFi only Pi is definitely challenging. A few modified installation steps will resolve the Pi WiFi connectivity issues.
These are the steps I used to get my Pi4 back on the WiFi network after installing Open Media Vault on top of the installed 2021-10-30-raspios-bullseye-armhf-lite.zip image.
- ssh into Pi 4
- sudo update
- sudo upgrade -y
- sudo reboot
- ssh back into the Pi after a few minutes
- wget https://github.com/OpenMediaVault-Plugin-Developers/installScript/raw/master/install
- chmod +x install
- sudo ./install -n #( -n is important)
- sudo reboot
You should see your Pi 4 back on the WiFi network at the same IP address you started with. I had set a static IP address before starting the OMV install. Using auto assigned DHCP IP address you might get a different IP address on reboot. Use standard LAN / WLAN discovery techniques to find your new Pi 4 IP address.