Dear Forum Members,

I have a strange Wifi issue with my PBPro. I am connected to my access point and I can use Internet, everything seems fine, however I am not able to ping or SSH to other devices connected to the same access point. I do not have this problem with other mobiles and laptops.

I see access point's IP and MAC address in the ARP table, but for the others I see ARP incomplete. If I tcpdump on wlan0 it shows outgoing ARP requests, but nothing on the target device.

Linux version is the preinstalled Manjaro, I have received my PBPro 4 days ago.

Does anyone have any idea what can be the problem? Does it work for someone else?

Thanks and Regards,

Csaba Erdei

I just received my PBP and in the process of giving it a test drive I checked it out on krunler.io

It runs extremely slow and laggy on firefox. Good connection speeds so I ruled that out. 

I switched to chromium but got the following message: Failed to Load Make sure you are using the latest version of Chrome or Firefox

I initially downloaded chromium via pamac-manager, when I got the above message I removed it then downloaded chromium via command line but got the same results.

Two different issue I guess. 

First shouldn’t PBP be capable of running krunker.io?

Second why would an error say I don’t have the latest version of chromium?



Thanks from a new PBP owner and new linux user.

Got my PBP yesterday. Generally things have gone well, but at random intervals there is a tick or pop type sound from the right speaker, even with the sound muted. 

Any idea how I might troubleshoot this?

Edit: I should have specified, this happens both when using the included power adapter and when on battery power.

Also, it does go away when I mute the speaker device in alsamixer.

I'm messing around with the nuts and bolts on my device, trying to get a minimal PostmarketOS install working (eventually, I hope to have some fun trying to build my own UIs, which I'm sure will be a hilarious and educational programming challenge/disaster for myself). At the moment, though, I'm still hung up on trying to get the battery to charge. Even when plugged into a charger capable of delivering plenty of current, the battery continues to discharge, and the system never draws more than around half an amp.

Forgive me for being so clueless, but I'm new to all of this. What governs charging control, and how do I talk to it? Is this part of what 'crust' does? Charging appears to work fine under SailfishOS and Ubuntu, so I think hardware issues can be ruled out and I must just be missing some key thing on the software side.

[edit] Sorted - long story short, half of the ports on the unmanaged port are dead - nothing to do with the RPro64

I've already spoken to some of the smartest people in the community and, despite their best efforts, they've been unable to crack the problem I'm facing. 
So now I'm throwing it out there to see if anyone has any ideas. The situation is stupidly puzzling:

I cannot connect any of my RPro64s (4 different boards- all of which are good) running ANY OS (tried: Debian Desktop with BSP kernel, Manjaro with mainline 5.6, Armbian with 5.4)  to my home network via Ethernet. 

This started after I accidentally disconnected a board that has been running OMV for many years (ancient installation). When I reapplied power to it it wouldn't connect. At first I thought It was simply a case of the installation breaking and, later, of a faulty board but not it seems to be an issue which affects all my RPro64s - none of them can connect to my router.

Here's what I've tried so far:

• tried different OS with different kernels
  
• tried different boards
  
• reset my router to factory defaults
  
• changing mac address
  
• setting a static IP (it 'connects' - but there are no packets coming in/out and the router doesn't see it)
  
• I checked cables and wiring - other devices (laptops, different SBCs, etc., can connect on the same wires)
  
• connecting over WiFi - works fine connects straight away to the router
  
• USB-Ethernet dongles DO NOT connect - same issue as inbuilt NIC. The USB-Ethernet dongle DOES work on other devices - e.g. laptops & stationary PC
  

Hey, I'm kinda new to this, so can someone help me understand if it is possible to install Ubuntu 20.04 on Pinebook Pro's eMMC or SD card? If so, how would I approach it? So far, I have only installed Ubuntu on Ubuntu machines via bootable flash drives I created with Rufus and Ubuntu's ISO download.

Hi all,

I have the PBP booting to eMMC with Manjaro (originally shipped with Debian).  I recently received the NVMe adapter and installed a WD Blue SN550 250GB, WDS250G2B0C.  Booting into Manjaro, it sees the NVMe and I'm able to mount the disk and everything seems to be working fine.  

I tried to dd some other distros to the SD card and boot to it, but none seem to boot now except for the original Debian image.  I'm trying to determine if this is a power issue now that I have the NVMe drive (I have not taken the drive out to test, been too lazy to take the laptop apart again).

Has anyone else see this behavior?

Thanks!
edp

I received my PBP today and noted a large crack on the screen. The box was undamaged so the issue likely occurred during assembly.

I have reached out the the sales@pine64.org email address but others have noted that the pine64 email support and sale addresses are often black holes. What methods have people had success with on getting their on-arrival issues rectified? From my perspective, I'm happy to simply get a replacement screen and replace it myself.

Hi, if I buy the PineBook to Europe (not UK), I’m worried about import taxes (customs duty), which could be 20~23% of $240. If it comes from inside Europe already I don’t have to pay that.

Would like to know what are the benchmarks for the PineBook Pro. I already have a notebook with Intel 6700HQ and Nvidia GeForce GTX1080, 16GB RAM and 1080p@120Hz screen. Hard drives are SSD SATA2 and PCIe.

The PineBook Pro would be mainly for portable use, however I’m wondering how much will be the difference. It will not be intended for gaming, but for multimedia, development and web.