@meehien Honestly that sounds incredibly easy, and I know Apline should have support for the R4.
On a side note, does the AUR possibly have anything of use for the R4 or BE14? If so I might try Arch if Alpine doesn’t work out.
That actually sounds incredibly easy. But in this specific case, I’m lost at step one lol.
How do I do that on the R4? I have no other ARM based systems I could run an installer on.
I do have a small NVME drive in the R4 that I intend to run the OS from, so that part is covered.
Then I need to install U-Boot from @Frank-W onto the eMMC to enable booting the OS from the NVMe drive, which I was never able to figure out how to do correctly. That was actually my first post here on the forums lol. That thread got put on the back burner when I started noticing all the other issues.
I know the main issue is simply the fact that I have never done this type of setup before. So I have no understanding of what files go where and why or what they do. Plus im probably way over complicating things. I know the moment it finally clicks im probably going to feel really stupid lol.
i should have dig a bit more about this product before buying it (i was misled by my previous raspberry experience).
Fortunately, i don’t plan to use it for wifi but i found it a bit triggering to see variant release of the R4 when the original product is not even fully working as expected and properly supported by the vendor.
I have the very same setup - the two NPDs + a custom aluminium case are getting actively cooled by an 120mm fan.
That way I have 2x2 6GHz WIFI in two rooms (the 2,4GHz disabled) + a central 4x4 2,4GHz (all serving one floor). The setup is completely stable that far.
I can reach 1,2Gbit with iperf2 on a laptop with intel be-card (antennas installed in the ceiling, so from a distance of roughly 3 - 4 meters) on 5 GHz AX, didn’t test it on 6 GHz so far.
I had a very similar setup with 2×7916-NPD + 1×7915-NP1 installed on Turris Omnias with similar speeds.
I am currently changing the antennas (before: 2,4/5GHz only with low antenna gains that don’t outperform the attenuation losses because of long cabling, after: omniband antennas with higher gain) so I’ll need some days to post the evidence.
