PineTab2 shipping

[diederik]

But no wireless connection possible.... It does not recognize any wireless lan.....

Sad news..... anyone got a solution/workaround?

I think wireless network should work when shipped to customer, even if this is kind of development tablet....

Using a USB-Ethernet dongle I'm able to get online and post this, hopefully the WiFi drivers aren't too far away.

From https://www.pine64.org/2023/04/01/march-...t-bonanza/

Danct12 also wanted me to let you know that the Wi-Fi is disabled on the PineTab2 by default due to driver stability issues, so you’ll have to run modprobe bes2600 to get it working.

IIRC the wifi driver issue is rather severe, so don't expect it to work properly anytime soon.

This isn't a kind of development tablet, this current release is/was supposed to land in the hand of developers so that they can work on the software parts.

As is often the case with Pine64 hardware, you should do some research first instead of blindly buying stuff.
The wiki is a good source (next to the blog posts).

https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/PineTab2#Known_Issues :

• The display panel driver is in PineTab2's kernel fork, and needs to be submitted to upstream.
  
• The BES2600 Wi-Fi driver needs porting/major cleanup. This is a priority, but for now, you can USB tether a phone or use a supported WI-FI dongle.
  
• The BES2600 Bluetooth driver needs to be implemented.
  
• The Camera driver needs to be written.
  
• Suspend does not currently work due to a driver issue. Suspend is disabled in the factory image for your protection. Caveat Emptor if you chose to unmask the feature prior to it being fixed.