• RT5370 working out of the box with Raspbian Stretch doesn't work with B

    From Francisco Fuentes@3:770/3 to All on Mon Feb 22 17:40:08 2021
    Hi,


    I've been having issues trying to upgrade an old Raspberry Pi 1B rev 2
    to Raspbian Buster (or Raspberry OS).

    I bought a WiFi adapter and it worked out of the box with Stretch. I
    usually use this device in a headless setup so as soon as I rebooted I
    stopped having access to the pi. Then I tried to flash a SD card with
    Buster straight from the Raspberry Pi website (the lite version because
    it's headless) and I had the same outcome (previously I added a wpa_supplicant.conf and added an empty "ssh" file to /boot).

    Do you know what's going on? I booted the last SD card with a monitor
    and I couldn't find any strange errors. I have to say that the adapter
    is not faulty because I flashed a backup I made of the SD card with
    Stretch and it's just fine.

    Thanks in advance :)

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  • From Martin Gregorie@3:770/3 to Francisco Fuentes on Mon Feb 22 21:19:37 2021
    On Mon, 22 Feb 2021 17:40:08 -0300, Francisco Fuentes wrote:

    Do you know what's going on? I booted the last SD card with a monitor
    and I couldn't find any strange errors. I have to say that the adapter
    is not faulty because I flashed a backup I made of the SD card with
    Stretch and it's just fine.

    I have an old (512MB) Pi 2B thats running Buster with no problems except
    that the SD card is now 16GB rather than the original 4GB. Its always
    been run headless, though I've never tried using wifi with it.

    The difference may be that I've always done in-situ upgrades by editing /etc/apt/sources.list and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/raspi.list to
    successively change the version name: wheezy->jessie->stretch->buster
    in these files, and then:
    - making sure the old distro is fully up the date
    - running "sudo apt-get update"
    - "sudo apt-get -y dist-upgrade"
    - rebooting into the new version

    I handled resizing the SD card by:
    - using 'parted' to create and format the partitions on the new card
    - using dd to copy each partition from the old to the new card.

    The boot partition must be FAT32 and the filing system should be ext4.

    I've migrated the system to a bigger SD card twice. The boot partition
    stayed at its original size from 'wheesy' to 'stretch', but this wasn't
    large enough for 'buster' now that the kernel modules needed by Pi 2, Pi
    3 and Pi 4 are all part of the same distro, so I increased it to 1GB for 'buster'.

    I've always used the rest of the SD card for the ext4 filing system.

    HTH: all these upgrades and SD card migrations have 'just worked' for me.



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  • From Francisco Fuentes@3:770/3 to All on Tue Feb 23 00:07:07 2021
    El 22-02-2021 a las 18:19, Martin Gregorie escribió:
    On Mon, 22 Feb 2021 17:40:08 -0300, Francisco Fuentes wrote:

    Do you know what's going on? I booted the last SD card with a monitor
    and I couldn't find any strange errors. I have to say that the adapter
    is not faulty because I flashed a backup I made of the SD card with
    Stretch and it's just fine.

    I have an old (512MB) Pi 2B thats running Buster with no problems except
    that the SD card is now 16GB rather than the original 4GB. Its always
    been run headless, though I've never tried using wifi with it.

    The difference may be that I've always done in-situ upgrades by editing /etc/apt/sources.list and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/raspi.list to
    successively change the version name: wheezy->jessie->stretch->buster
    in these files, and then:
    - making sure the old distro is fully up the date
    - running "sudo apt-get update"
    - "sudo apt-get -y dist-upgrade"
    - rebooting into the new version

    I handled resizing the SD card by:
    - using 'parted' to create and format the partitions on the new card
    - using dd to copy each partition from the old to the new card.

    The boot partition must be FAT32 and the filing system should be ext4.

    I've migrated the system to a bigger SD card twice. The boot partition
    stayed at its original size from 'wheesy' to 'stretch', but this wasn't
    large enough for 'buster' now that the kernel modules needed by Pi 2, Pi
    3 and Pi 4 are all part of the same distro, so I increased it to 1GB for 'buster'.

    I've always used the rest of the SD card for the ext4 filing system.

    HTH: all these upgrades and SD card migrations have 'just worked' for me.




    I meant, it upgrades successfully but it stopped working with wifi
    (which for me is the only real way I can use it) whether I update or
    install it from scratch.

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  • From Martin Gregorie@3:770/3 to Francisco Fuentes on Tue Feb 23 11:02:34 2021
    On Tue, 23 Feb 2021 00:07:07 -0300, Francisco Fuentes wrote:

    El 22-02-2021 a las 18:19, Martin Gregorie escribió:
    On Mon, 22 Feb 2021 17:40:08 -0300, Francisco Fuentes wrote:

    Do you know what's going on? I booted the last SD card with a monitor
    and I couldn't find any strange errors. I have to say that the adapter
    is not faulty because I flashed a backup I made of the SD card with
    Stretch and it's just fine.

    I have an old (512MB) Pi 2B thats running Buster with no problems
    except that the SD card is now 16GB rather than the original 4GB. Its
    always been run headless, though I've never tried using wifi with it.

    The difference may be that I've always done in-situ upgrades by editing
    /etc/apt/sources.list and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/raspi.list to
    successively change the version name: wheezy->jessie->stretch->buster
    in these files, and then:
    - making sure the old distro is fully up the date - running "sudo
    apt-get update"
    - "sudo apt-get -y dist-upgrade"
    - rebooting into the new version

    I handled resizing the SD card by:
    - using 'parted' to create and format the partitions on the new card -
    using dd to copy each partition from the old to the new card.

    The boot partition must be FAT32 and the filing system should be ext4.

    I've migrated the system to a bigger SD card twice. The boot partition
    stayed at its original size from 'wheesy' to 'stretch', but this wasn't
    large enough for 'buster' now that the kernel modules needed by Pi 2,
    Pi 3 and Pi 4 are all part of the same distro, so I increased it to 1GB
    for 'buster'.

    I've always used the rest of the SD card for the ext4 filing system.

    HTH: all these upgrades and SD card migrations have 'just worked' for
    me.




    I meant, it upgrades successfully but it stopped working with wifi
    (which for me is the only real way I can use it) whether I update or
    install it from scratch.


    OK - it wasn't clear whether you'd upgraded it or merely dropped in the
    latest partition images from the Raspbian Foundation.


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    Gregorie | gregorie dot org

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  • From Francisco Fuentes@3:770/3 to All on Wed Mar 3 11:07:38 2021
    El 23-02-2021 a las 8:02, Martin Gregorie escribió:

    OK - it wasn't clear whether you'd upgraded it or merely dropped in the latest partition images from the Raspbian Foundation.



    Yeah, I did both just so you know I tried everything. I'm wondering if I
    have to do something special to make wifi work in Buster.

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