If I run Pidgin from the command line, after a reboot, I get:

I wonder if somebody would come with a hack enabling to fit one of these color e-Ink displays into a PineNote?

The frame rate is obviously still crap to use them for general purpose displays (still no Youtube videos), but I am sure that there are people who would be interesting having some colors:

- In my case I am thinking about reading scientific articles which often includes graphs and plots which use color.
- Another use case for me: taking notes/making correction in a different colour.

(the above don't even require a high fidelity in color reproduction).

- And I am sure some people would be interested in reading comic book on their device.

Hi, for the sake of documentation and knowledge sharing: I found newer firmware that seems to be for the Broadcom WIFI adapter in the Pinebook Pro. Here are some details. I cannot say anything regarding authenticity or how well it works, just that it is working on my machine for the last few hours. I stumbled upon it in a search, happened to show up in a Raspberry Pi forum-post. (Apparently the Raspberry Pi 400 uses the same hardware revision.)

Firmware-info during firmware loading:
- BCM4345/9 (i.e. hardware revision 9)
- Nov 16 2020 16:27:10 version 7.45.96 (r745790) FWID 01-99758c86

Post: https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic...7&t=291688

• brcmfmac43456-sdio.bin https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tLev-L-...I17Mu/view
  
• brcmfmac43456-sdio.clm_blob https://drive.google.com/file/d/1J8Ddbsr...wQdBH/view
  

Hello,

I was just reading the news regarding tow-boot; https://wiki.mobian-project.org/doku.php...tall-linux

Once there's a new tow-boot release, do we need to reflash tow-boot and reflash mobian again every time?

Once I install tow-boot, can I reflash the mobian image with installer from april 3th? Or should we wait for new images?

It has been around 3 or 4 days after the last updates of phosh and other packages that my pine phone is unstable on the suspend action. Am I alone on that or anybody else with the same issues?

Is the dock for Pinephone compatible with the Pinephone pro?
https://pine64.com/product/pinephone-usb-c-docking-bar/

It's really important that its possible to connect it to a monitor and keyboard. I guess there shouldn't be a problem but haven't seen it documented and the pro doesn't come with any accessories so just wanted to make sure.

According to this marvelous installation intruction:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf0zwq6jI30

I was able to use my second hand PinePhone with lost password very quickly. The instruction shows how to install a distro over an SD card with JumpDrive. I immediately was happy with JumpDrive.

To access the external SD card from my PC is a feature which I miss since years on Android phones. I would like to use the external SD for data storage and use it to read and write to it from a PC. But when the external SD card with JumpDrive is plugged into the PinePhone, I cannot start Ubports anymore, but only JumpDrive.

Is there a quick and easy boot loader option available to solve this problem?

Carrier: ATT prepaid (US)
APN: NXTGENPHONE

I use Settings -> Mobile Network screen and slide the switch icon to on. Makes a connection to my carrier but no Internet access (I can ping att.com but that's it).

ip link show wwan0
4: wwan0: <POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST,NOARP,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1430 qdisc pfifo_fast state UNKNOWN qlen 1000
    link/[65534]


"POINTTOPOINT" makes me think of a PPP connection; compare to my Wifi settings:

ip link show wlan0
3: wlan0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP qlen 1000
    link/ether 02:ba:93:10:c9:af brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff


Is there a command (like an option to ip) that I can configure wwan0 as BROADCAST? Where in the NetworkManager startup sequence, or elsewhere in the postmarketOS networking configuration, would I be able to find/change the settings for wwan0?

Surely I'm not expected to make a PPP connection?

Thanks

I currently want to use my PinePhone only for office application with textprocessor and excel like tables, with a keyboard and mouse, touch not urgently necessary. Which distro is the easiest to start with? Is there a distro that has already installed office software, for instance OpenOffice?

I updated my Mobian installation today and found some differences. "Kings Cross" or "Terminal" is now "Console". The on-screen keyboard is different, with black characters on a white background, though at first glance the layout appears to be the same.

Most disconcerting though is there is now an orange exclamation point in the cellular indicator. Calls seem to be working normally though. (Could it be because I have mobile data disabled in Settings?) This displayed immediately after rebooting the phone subsequent to the updates.