I’ve been asked a bunch for this one, took some work to get it going on the hardware. Ubuntu 24.04 has a problem with the way they handle the WiFi blobs. So I had to change it to the way Debian does it for the WiFi to work. Audio now works pinctrl is not shipped with Ubuntu. That’s what caused the audio to not switch from the headphone jack.
The CM5 currently doesn’t fully work, it boot but the screen cuts out. I’m looking into a fix as the CM5 isn’t fully supported by Ubuntu 24.04 according to ubuntu.
In the meantime I’m releasing this working image to test with the CM4. Let me know any issues you have or any workarounds you had to do.
DragonOS Pi64 is an out-of-the-box 22.04 aarch64 Raspberry Pi based operating system for anyone interested in software defined radios.
Features: ClockworkPi-CM4-DragonOS-6.12.y
Sane charging defaults applied.
External WiFi antenna already set in config.txt.
Auto-expanding file system
On first boot system will boot expand FS then reboot.
I have added a few working/testing images and kernels with the *.deb files to install in the mega folder if you want for different OSs.
Google Drive link for the main image if Mega doesn’t work for you.
Here’s my Github with the rpi-6.12.y branch if you’d like to compile yourself. All the ClockworkPi drivers are pre-marked to compile in bcm2711_defconfig or bcm2712_defconfig. Also the APT repo with kernels and hardware scripts for ClockworkPi devices
I guess I am now. I’m am but a humble distro dealer peddling my wares.
I just want to help people and this device succeed.
I know with the SDR expansion card about to ship soon more people will want to give some of these tools a spin without having to compiling everything themselves.
YEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSS @Rex i spent weeks on doing this image and gave up tbh anything ubuntu was a wall for me, glad it has been added to the collection. now i can dust off my hackrf to get my radio freak on ;p
It took me longer then I’d like to admit to get this one going.
Ubuntu does some weird stuff with u-boot I don’t like, along with a list of other things.
Holy Cowpoop, dude you are amazing! I got my uconsole and devterm way back in the day and there was not many things you could run on it. The forums were fairly quiet. Then you came and changed all of that! Thank you for all the hard work and effort, I, and I daresay everyone are most grateful for the work that you do!!! It’s almost a little game I play with myself everytime I look at the forum or discord, “Lets see if AK-Rex have ported another OS to the uconsole/devterm”!!!
Trying this out. I have no audio. At all. On REX’s bookworm OS I compiled sdr angel and it didn’t have audio but sdr++ did. Now on dragon nothing has audio not even YouTube. I’ve messed with audio settings and still nothing. I’m completely new to sdr. Am I missing something? Anyone else have this issue?
Yeah, I found the problem. Ubuntu doesn’t come with pinctrl to control the GPIO so I’m adding it and packaging the newest kernel for the image too. A new Image will be up tomorrow morning.
