@crispyoz this tracks! I will add this in my (personal) wiki about the board

Thank you, crispyoz, and gyorgy farkas, I had verified the wifi was working and also serial communications. The problem was ytring to update firmware or install console, always errored out or just sat there with progress indicator circling regardless of time spent, without any download of software or installing happening. With your help and hints, I succeeded in updating oupgrade, and then updating firmware, and installing console. The problem was in the oupgrade file origionally installed. Again thanks, everything working as it should now.