I will preface the post with this - I am a wireless engineer and have nearly all of my devices using wireless. My PBpro wireless issues have nothing to do with the network environment.

So I purchased the Pinebook Pro in Nov of last year, receiving it in late Jan. Aside from all the hoops you have to jump through with updates, etc. to get it to a point of being useful, followed by more updates to get the trackpad working correctly, it is now a pretty nice machine.

However, there remains one HUGE problem with it that I have not been able to remedy. The wireless does not work consistently; it always disconnects then appears to connect, yet cannot resolve any domain names, cannot ping, etc. Starting a ping to some site or constantly refreshing the browser eventually gets it connected again, but only for short periods of time. From what I can determine, this device has extremely poor receive sensitivity. There is nearly nowhere in my home where I can go and not get at least around -48dBm RSSI, and yet the PBpro is in the -65 range (still good, but not accurate in my environment) within 10 feet LOS to an AP.

Something else I notice is that when I see a successful reassociation on my controller, it isn't reflected on the PBpro; dmesg shows that it is associated, however I have stop / restart ping or completely refresh my browser to get comms working again.

Can anyone point me in the right direction to get this working and to stay working? I have run the updater; I also did find some posts about issues on a WPA2 network (which mine is), but seemed inconclusive.

Any feedback / help will be greatly appreciated. Thx!

Are the current limits to purchasing multiple Pinebook Pro laptops intentional? or some kind of left over default from the pre-order / initial run period?

It seems weird that I cant buy multiple Pinebook Pro laptops, but because its just a regular item, I could just pay for that one, and order another one, and since I was thinking of buying 3 of them, I'd end up paying half the cost of a Pinebook Pro in shipping (3*$33) ... /end-of-silly-example.

But yeah, I was looking to buy 2, and was surprised to find I couldn't.

Is there a reason for this?

Hi All

Thanks in advance for any advice. I am trying to bootstrap my own Debian install on my Pinephone and after alot of faffing and false starts I finally managed to boot a kernel I had build into a Debian install I had bootstrapped, cos why wouldn't you on FOSS phone!

The last hurdle I came across was the boot.scr script not being run by u-boot on my image, I had copied the one from the Debian+Phosh image and then updated the entries to point to my kernel/initramfs. There are some non-text bytes at the beginning of the file which I think is might be the reason its not booting (checksum/hash maybe) but once I had restored the original and copied my kernel/initramfs files to the to the names used in the boot.scr it booted without issue.

So, the question! How do I generate my own boot.scr correctly?

Thanks Again

hk135

Hello,
I've been thinking about buying a Rock64 for LibreELEC, Lakka and even possibly a full Linux installation for the family to use as a secondary computer on an emergency like a broken or forgotten tablet/smartphone.
In order for it to be practical, I would need it to have a graphical boot manager (like NOOBS or PINN) from which I could change the OS to boot using either the TV remote control (is CEC available for Rock64?) or using a small keyboard with touchpad that I keep in the living room near the couch.
Is this possible to achieve?
If so, how hard would it be to setup? Any howto's?
Thanks in advance.
Cheers

Hi,

I thought I wouuld share my first experience connecting to the PinePhone via the serial console:
> https://bloggerbust.ca/post/my-first-exp...l-console/

My blog has no ads and I make no money from it.

Sincerely,

dustfinger.

Would it be safe to use the grub-image, with all the modules (as long as it doesn't exceed 16 MB) and flash it to the spi ? Which would eliminate the need for uboot entirely ?
Just checking my options before i get an ssd, for the nvme adaper (pbp)

if I load (on OSX, with Balena Etcher or Pine64 Installer) Manjaro-ARM-xfce-pbpro-20.02-emmc-installer-20.02.img.xz to my SDcard and boot my PBP, i will see the Manjaro logo plus spinning circles for ever ( 2 hours then stopped ). Images like Manjaro-ARM-xfce-pbpro-20.02.1.img.xz however will boot ok but I don't know how to flash that on the emmc.
What am I missing in the process of flashing to emmc?

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/o...port.16094

However while running supertuxkart with  PAN_MESA_DEBUG=gles3 supertuxkart nothing renders properly. But when I set KWin Compositor to OpenGL 3.1, KWin seems to work.
I am running Manjaro KDE.

I recently placed my order for the PBP, before i realized that it may require interaction with uBoot, which can only be done using an external terminal connection with a horribly simplistic usb adapter...
So my question is, is there any way to edit the uBoot configuration outside of uBoot ? I.e. disk editing?

Also, would i need to rebuild and reinstall uboot every time the kernel is upgraded?

I don't suppose there are any tools to manipulate uboot from linux ?

I have one of the early PBPs.  I just flashed Manjaro, and I noticed all the GUI effects seem REALLY slow.  I'm new to Manjaro.  Is there an easy way to see what the CPU settings are (Debian had CPU/power save settings on panel, Manjaro doesn't.)  

Also, WiFi is much better.  The install seems to freeze unless you hit "Esc", but someone already mentioned that on here somewhere.