This was actual more of a PITA than expected and the solution that finally worked for me was to establish a connection to the USB serial device (once drivers installed) then once it displayed connected, power up the Pi and watch its boot sequence. The command I used was
- Wifi Power Management can be a problem with Pis that depent on WLAN. It seems that after a period of inactivity they become uncontactable over external networks. Disabling wifi power management is said to help.
iwconfig wlan0 power off
This line can be added to /etc/rc.local to ensure this feature is permanent on boot
sudo cu -l /dev/cu.usbserial -s 115200
- Installing NodeJS for ARM install git first