Thank you both for replying so quickly, and Vagrant for all the
information! arm64 is still quite the blackbox for me, and it seems that
every device out there is a bit "special" ;-)

On 10/31/20 7:37 PM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> On 2020-10-31, Christian Kastner wrote:
>> Assuming that I figure out how to connect the serial (apparently through
>> the headphone jack), should installation over serial be routine, or are
>> there also still gotchas?
> 
> You'll probably need to toggle a switch inside the case:
> 
>   https://linux-sunxi.org/Pine_Pinebook#Adding_a_serial_port
> 
> I'll boot to serial console and see if I can't identify the missing
> modules...
I'll also give it a try as soon as I have another time window open
(which won't be that soon though, unfortunately...)

By the way, for any considering using this as an airgapped system (as I
will, at some point), I found this useful description on how to
permanently disable the WiFi chip. All it requires is removing one resistor:

https://www.coreforge.com/blog/2019/06/removing-pinebook-wifi/

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