Can't get Mobian on PinePhone to recognise USB-C docking bar
12-03-2023, 09:59 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-03-2023, 10:00 PM by Kevin Kofler.)
Uh, try and see? Modding the hardware should not be necessary with any recent PinePhone in any case, only the early community editions had hardware issues requiring that mod, the later ones and the Beta Edition have that fixed. That said, did your PinePhone not come with a dock? I thought the non-convergence version has been out of stock for months and only the convergence edition is available, which comes with a dock.
What I can tell you is that the included (convergence edition) dock works with my PinePhone Beta Edition running Manjaro Plasma Mobile. But I have not tried any third-party dock nor the Mobian distro, so I cannot tell you whether that combination will work or not. Hence, my suggestion to just try and see.
(Note that I also have an older PinePhone Beta Edition whose whole USB subsystem has failed after 1½ years of use. Even the internal USB modem does not work (anymore) on that one. Neither does the USB port, except charging. But that seems to be a very rare hardware flaw, so you will hopefully never run into that. And as I said, it breaks more than just the dock, so you would notice pretty quickly.)
What I can tell you is that the included (convergence edition) dock works with my PinePhone Beta Edition running Manjaro Plasma Mobile. But I have not tried any third-party dock nor the Mobian distro, so I cannot tell you whether that combination will work or not. Hence, my suggestion to just try and see.
(Note that I also have an older PinePhone Beta Edition whose whole USB subsystem has failed after 1½ years of use. Even the internal USB modem does not work (anymore) on that one. Neither does the USB port, except charging. But that seems to be a very rare hardware flaw, so you will hopefully never run into that. And as I said, it breaks more than just the dock, so you would notice pretty quickly.)