Re: [9front] pi4 wifi and audio

[thinktankworkspaces@gmail.com]

Quoth Thaddeus Woskowiak <tswoskowiak@gmail.com>:
> I don't think Miller's wifi does WPA or any auth. Though I've not ran
> Miller's pi image in a long time. Miller's wifi driver is also different
> from 9 front's WiFi driver so it's not a simple port.
> 
> For good pi audio I use a Dayton USB DAC which outputs pretty clean audio.
> 
> Unfortunately the pi uses a really crummy SoC as it started life as an
> EoL'd chip for set-top boxes. That's why it does weird crap like boot from
> the GPU and lacked proper Ethernet for ages. Even Pi founder Ebbon Upton
> was unable to grasp why people wanted proper Ethernet as the pi was only
> ever meant for teaching. It's an educational toy built from a chip
> scrounged from the cut out bin but everyone seems to want to ignore that
> part. You get what you pay for.
> 
> I tend to prefer cheap embedded PC's off eBay or itx Celeron SoC boards if
> I need a small low power system.
> 
> On Sat, Feb 12, 2022, 1:11 PM <thinktankworkspaces@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > So 9front on pi4 seems pretty stable. But has anyone got audio and wifi
> > working. I recall
> > reading some place that pi hardware developers kind of deviated from
> > convention so its a bit
> > tricky to get some of that stuff working. Perhaps I might also be asking
> > for some sort of
> > guide to read on how to build or deal with making drivers in 9front and
> > some troubleshooting
> > steps to follow. Ponies and Unicorns I want those also, so yea.
> >
> 

Interesting. Seems like a lot of wasted effort. Unless as you say using pi as a teaching
experiement. So what about hackboard2. Kind of the same specs but Intel. I'm wondering if
it will just boot 9front and work without too much fuss.