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/