Re: [9front] pi4 wifi and audio

[Thaddeus Woskowiak <tswoskowiak@gmail.com>]

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I'd hate to discourage people from putting in effort but just explaining
the reality.

On Sat, Feb 12, 2022, 8:17 PM <thinktankworkspaces@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

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