LinuxCNC on Raspberry Pi 5

Hi KrisJ,

I can at least confirm a pi 5 that is able to find WiFi networks. In my case nmtui did work I chose something I remember was called ‘activate network’ and it would show a bunch (and prompt for password).

With kind regards,
Jairo 

edit: this is on the latest linuxcnc image 2.9.4 by rodw 

I happen to like the RPIOS default desktop (LXDE-PI) way better than LinuxCNCs (XFCE or whatever it is) and a host of other reasons, including the Raspis built in touchscreen support and on-screen keyboard. Everything, including wi-fi, just seems to work. Its easy to install LinuxCNC on it. If anyone is interested, I'll start a new thread.

I'll admit I'm not a huge fan of the std xfce panel setup, but that's easy enough to change.
Actually I prefer MATE and have made images for myself with the MATE desktop without any of the XFCE4 hangover, but it is simple enough to install MATE on the std linuxcnc image, whether amd64 or arm64.

With regards to wifi & networking in general. installs network manager & the gnome applet. The reason this has been left out is because there were some latency issues, I think with the 12.x series being far better this is not such an issue.
I like the gnome applet as I like to turn wifi off when running Linuxcnc.

If a touch screen enumerates as HID it will just work. As the images we build use the RPi-Linux sources it may be a kernel module that isn't included in our build to support non HID touchscreens.
On screen keyboard, just a package we don't include.
Reasons for not using RPIOS, the fact that it uses wayland as a default and X compatibility layer is very slow, so slow that there is a significant difference when running latency tests between wayland (as stock) and changing to X.
Branding is also an issue, something I really want to deal with. Debian isn't so restrictive, hence the reason the PC images changed from Ubuntu to Debian.

There is also a thread some where on the forum regarding Linuxcnc on RPIOS. The topic author slips my mind at this moment.

And finally for up to date info on the RPi and the images please jump to:
forum.linuxcnc.org/9-installing-linuxcnc...the-rpasberry-pi-4-5

Hopefully this will end up as a one stop for most issues and advice.

Yeah the whole switch from Ubuntu to Debian cost me a ton of money. I'm a Linux guy myself and I can work in any Linux distro even if it hurts my eyes, but we couldn't do that to our customers, most of whom are scared of Linux in the first place. We stayed on 2.6 until UEFI forced us to update to 2.8 and then again when parallel ports finally dried up and mesa cards forced us onto 2.9. Now PC motherboards are almost obsolete in general, and the switch to rpi was forced, but has actually been pleasant thanks to a lot of yours efforts

I can at least confirm a pi 5 that is able to find WiFi networks. In my case nmtui did work I chose something I remember was called ‘activate network’ and it would show a bunch (and prompt for password).

With kind regards,
Jairo 

edit: this is on the latest linuxcnc image 2.9.4 by rodw 

Thanks for the reply jairobbo!
That is really weird. I did exactly that but my list appear empty. Fresh install 2.9.4 and thensudo apt install network-manager
Did you use the 2.9.4 from downloads page, I think thats rodw's, right? Version of Rpi5? (I have the 4GB)

I also tried sudo apt install network-manager-gnomeAnd when I pop down the little menu there is a grayed out text "device not managed" and under that is only VPN connections. Any idea what might be off on my system?