Makes sense…thanks !.
Now wondering why I’m getting only 25Mb/s at 5.56Ghz with either Raspberry mounted off the case or Hackergadgets external ant !..is the CM5 WiFi rubbish ?
UPDATE…
WiFi power saving was on. Turning off temporarily gives 433Mb/s !. Just need to make it permanent.
How did you turn it off? Are you using one of Rex’s images?
Latest Rex Trixie…
To turn off permanently (through power cycles) enter ‘sudo raspi-config’ in the terminal.
CAUTION Use cursor keys up/down to select a sub section and left/right to alternate between the bottom two options. Select with the enter key. Scroll down to :-
‘Advanced options - A13 wlan power save’
A little weird, the yes and no are power save on/off !
̶I̶’̶m̶ ̶p̶r̶e̶t̶t̶y̶ ̶s̶u̶r̶e̶ ̶t̶h̶a̶t̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶P̶C̶I̶e̶ ̶r̶i̶b̶b̶o̶n̶ ̶c̶a̶b̶l̶e̶ ̶w̶a̶s̶ ̶p̶l̶a̶c̶e̶d̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶w̶r̶o̶n̶g̶ ̶w̶a̶y̶ ̶a̶r̶o̶u̶n̶d̶.̶ ̶T̶h̶e̶ ̶a̶r̶r̶o̶w̶s̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶5̶V̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶r̶i̶b̶b̶o̶n̶ ̶c̶a̶b̶l̶e̶ ̶s̶h̶o̶u̶l̶d̶ ̶b̶e̶ ̶p̶o̶i̶n̶t̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶a̶t̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶d̶o̶t̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶w̶o̶u̶l̶d̶ ̶s̶e̶e̶ ̶o̶n̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶b̶o̶a̶r̶d̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶R̶p̶i̶ ̶C̶M̶.̶ ̶B̶e̶s̶t̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶m̶a̶k̶e̶ ̶s̶u̶r̶e̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶E̶E̶P̶R̶O̶M̶ ̶i̶s̶ ̶c̶o̶n̶f̶i̶g̶u̶r̶e̶d̶ ̶c̶o̶r̶r̶e̶c̶t̶l̶y̶ ̶a̶l̶s̶o̶.̶ ̶B̶u̶t̶ ̶t̶h̶a̶t̶ ̶r̶i̶b̶b̶o̶n̶ ̶c̶a̶b̶l̶e̶ ̶i̶s̶ ̶d̶e̶f̶i̶n̶i̶t̶e̶l̶y̶ ̶p̶l̶a̶c̶e̶d̶ ̶w̶r̶o̶n̶g̶,̶ ̶i̶f̶ ̶n̶o̶t̶,̶ ̶i̶t̶s̶ ̶f̶l̶i̶p̶p̶e̶d̶ ̶a̶s̶ ̶c̶o̶m̶p̶a̶r̶e̶d̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶m̶i̶n̶e̶ ̶w̶h̶i̶c̶h̶ ̶w̶o̶r̶k̶s̶ ̶f̶i̶n̶e̶.̶
Edit, nvm I thought the board with the CM was on top! Cable placement is good! 
Isn’t it that the “5V” marker of the cable must point to the “5V” marker of the board? That’s what I understood, but I am still waiting for my uConsole.
On @trinity’s photos I wonder whether the cable is really inserted deep enough into the motherboard’s connector.
hum…
yours should go SD, USB, NVMe, Reboot.
It could be a SD quirk issue causing it not to detect and jumping to NVMe. Have you tried removing the NVMe to make sure that your SD can boot reliably.. or change anthoer SD to try?
My bad I didn’t notice that the board with the CM was at the bottom. The cable was oriented correctly
you need to disable powersave on the wifi. if you are using ubuntu, i posted the fix in another thread.
sudo vi /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/wifi-powersave.conf
[connection]
wifi.powersave = 2
might help put you in the right direction.
does doing this to turn it off temporarily work? i dont have issues with it on my end so i cant test.
sudo iwconfig wlan0 power off
i used this instead
sudo iw dev wlan0 set power_save off
Yes, I have removed the NVME and the SD card boots normally. I have tried two cards. Both boot without the NVME installed but the boot process will go directly to NVME if it is installed. I have reflashed the SD Cards with no changes. I will try to reflash the NVME to see if there are any changes.
As suggested I took a stab at re-seating the ribbon but still no change. I noticed the PWR LED went out when the ribbon was removed and turned back on when inserted, but the drive remained unused.
I’m sorry to hear that. You’re an experienced uConsole user. I already have the hacker gadgets, but I’m still waiting for my uConsole. So I’m following your hunt for the cause like a crime thriller, in order to be prepared the day my uConsole arrives.
I am testing this Lipo battery on a CM4 setup. Battery wires were reversed so soon sorted that out. Seems to be working well so far its a 10,000Mah setup. I will fully charge and discharge to see how long it lasts. So the battery i used is in the link and looking at reviews someone already tested on Uconsole CM5 and works fine see pic.
I just found this on AliExpress:
9858102 High Capacity 10000mah 3.7V Battery+PCB Protection Board Rechargeable Flat Battery Laptop Batteries Power Bank
You would have to splice/solder the batteries in parallel with respect to their polarities; and have a thicker gauge wire from the splice to the connector.
That was my original idea but your need to do some work.
Does anyone know how to disable the cm5 wifi and bluetoothe so i can add and use the hackergadgets wifi AC1200 dongle?
sudo nano /boot/firmware/config.txt
Add under, save and reboot…
[all]
dtoverlay=disable-wifi-pi5
dtoverlay=disable-bt-pi5
Alternative if that doesn’t work.Try these under [all] and [pi5]…
disable-wifi
disable-bt
Why disable them? The dongle will just show up as another radio you can use.
costs more power, it’s a power hog
