>> those boards are also supported by the official Debian installed, and
>> that's the one using the mainline kernel.
>>
>> https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Allwinner
>
> - Jonas
>
>
Dear Jonas, Elena, Ferran and all,
thank you very much for your support.
I ended up ordering
On 2015-11-06 at 02:03:43 +, f wrote:
> So I'm happy to give the LIME2 board a try although I'm thinking to take
> the MICRO variant which has a 4gb NAND. Should't be a problem to flash
> that with freedombox image, should it?
yes, it is a problem: NAND support for the Allwinner chips as used
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On 06/11/15 03:03, f wrote:
> I'm also wondering what wifi adapter to get, preferably one that runs with
> free firmware, can you
recommend one? Thanks so much for your support, I'm very excited to give
this a try! Meget Tak
>
>
Quoting Jonas Smedegaard (2015-11-06 12:41:52)
> Quoting Elena ``of Valhalla'' Grandi (2015-11-06 09:30:21)
>> On 2015-11-06 at 02:03:43 +, f wrote:
>>> So I'm happy to give the LIME2 board a try although I'm thinking to
>>> take the MICRO variant which has a 4gb NAND. Should't be a problem
f writes:
> I'm also wondering what wifi adapter to get, preferably one that runs
> with free firmware, can you recommend one?
The MOD-WIFI-R5370-ANT from olimex works really well, but needs a non-free
firmware blob, the antenna is a bit fragile and on the MICRO you probably
On 2015-11-06 at 12:53:21 +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> I asked about it here (fresh blogpost from Olimex issued today):
> https://olimex.wordpress.com/2015/11/06/debian-8-jessie-is-finally-released-for-olinuxino-boards/#comment-20269
Well, that is the custom image from Olimex which uses an
Quoting Elena ``of Valhalla'' Grandi (2015-11-06 09:30:21)
> On 2015-11-06 at 02:03:43 +, f wrote:
>> So I'm happy to give the LIME2 board a try although I'm thinking to
>> take the MICRO variant which has a 4gb NAND. Should't be a problem to
>> flash that with freedombox image, should it?
>
> Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2015 20:31:11 +0100
> From: Jonas Smedegaard
> To: freedombox-discuss@lists.alioth.debian.org
> Subject: Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Let's decentralize: Hardware
> recommendations
>
> ...
>
> I strongly believe the LIME2 is currently the best option, but