Orange Pi Zero Plus2 with Trixie

[Hugo-Zero]

As per the description (to be found here: https://sd-card-images.johang.se/boards/orange_pi_zero_plus2.html) I download both files and in the end wrote all to a new micro SD card, just like desribed here:

curl -O https://dl.sd-card-images.johang.se/boots/2025-10-01/boot-orange_pi_zero_plus2.bin.gz
curl -O https://dl.sd-card-images.johang.se/debians/2025-10-20/debian-trixie-arm64-ya4iep.bin.gz
zcat boot-orange_pi_zero_plus2.bin.gz debian-trixie-arm64-ya4iep.bin.gz > sd-card.img
dd if=sd-card.img of=/dev/sdXXX # ...where /dev/sdXXX is your SD card

After that I put the SD card into the Orange Pi Zero Plus 2 and successfully booted to the login.

Issue is that I cannot login as obviously the USB port is out of function. One can just remove the SD card, boot into the chinese/japanese bulit in ROM. Once that is started, you could use the Keyboard or the mouse (even though I cannot read anything there). But after re-inserting the SD card and a reboot, I am back to to debian trixie login and the keyboard is dead. The optical mouse does not show any reaction. There is just a small kind if a flash light when the Power Adapter is just inserted into the micro USB port. After that, no reaction anymore.

Did I do anything wrong?
In the description it confuses me that it states:

When the dd command is done, put the SD card in your board and power it on. The board will boot up and assign itself an IP address using DHCP. The last part of the Debian/Ubuntu image filename is the default root password ("ya4iep" for this image).

This is odd as the Orange Pi Zero Plus2 lacks of an Ethernet Port. It cannot assing any IP address via DHCP. So, the only connection could be setup through Wifi, which I cannot configure as I cannot login.

Has anyone successuflly performed these steps with a working keyboard and a successful login afterwards?
Thx
Hugo