# Radxa CM5 - Will it work? **URL:** \ **Category:** uConsole\ **Created:** [August 20, 2025, 9:34am UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/radxa-cm5-will-it-work/19329 "2025-08-20T09:34:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kyzer](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forum.clockworkpi.com/kyzer/32/14879_2.png) [@Kyzer](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/Kyzer)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2025, 9:34am UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/radxa-cm5-will-it-work/19329/1 "2025-08-20T09:34:04Z")
Would this board work in our Uconsoles? > **[Radxa CM5](https://radxa.com/products/cm/cm5/)** > > A High Performance Embedded SoM ---
**Author:** ![white-round-square](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forum.clockworkpi.com/white-round-square/32/10385_2.png) [@white-round-square](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/white-round-square)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2025, 9:42am UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/radxa-cm5-will-it-work/19329/2 "2025-08-20T09:42:30Z")
it > [@uConsole Radxa CM5 image！](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/uconsole-radxa-cm5-image/15375): > > I used this [GitHub - dev-null2019/radxa-cm5-uconsole](https://github.com/dev-null2019/radxa-cm5-uconsole) to make an image and it was ready for testing. Please use： [1.51 GB folder on MEGA](https://mega.nz/folder/EPVSgbQJ#sj5yfnl3RzhKJhZvILzOzQ) I’ve written a brief guide that I hope will be a little helpful for newbies：【Uconsole RadxaCM5 img roduction guidance】 [https://b23.tv/RFd6WE7](https://b23.tv/RFd6WE7) The placement direction can be referred to: is > [@Anyone tried the Radxa CM5 on the uconsole?](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/anyone-tried-the-radxa-cm5-on-the-uconsole/13500): > > Has anyone tried the Radxa CM5 - [Radxa CM5](http://radxa.com/products/cm/cm5) on the uconsole? a > [@Bookworm 6.1.y for the Radxa CM5 uConsole](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/bookworm-6-1-y-for-the-radxa-cm5-uconsole/16315): > > First Release: 6.1.84 Image Test it out and post anything that doesn’t work. I’ll be setting up a APT repo for the Radxa CM5 too so there will be kernel updates in the next image release. Features: ClockworkRadxa-Bookworm-6.1.y Linux-headers included with kernel Auto-expanding file system Set Username/Password in /config/before.txt before first boot or default will be: Username / Password: clockwork / clockwork Issues: No WiFi/BT on the Radxa and can’t use the main boards WiFi/BT, you’ll … mistery > [@Radxa Cm5 on uConsole, tell your experience](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/radxa-cm5-on-uconsole-tell-your-experience/16584): > > Hi, I wanted to buy this Radxa CM5 16GB/128GB Model but even though I saw on the forum that some people made it work but I have a few questions how good/smooth is the compatibility with existing hardware modules Do I need a specific image to make it work or can I use the ones available in the forum for RPi CM5? Is there anything I need to have in consideration before going the Radxa route? Can someone that use this share his experience? Thanks in advance. ---
**Author:** ![Kyzer](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forum.clockworkpi.com/kyzer/32/14879_2.png) [@Kyzer](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/Kyzer)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2025, 9:44am UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/radxa-cm5-will-it-work/19329/3 "2025-08-20T09:44:19Z")
@white-round-square Thank you!! I’ll get one and give it a go lol. ---
**Author:** ![white-round-square](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forum.clockworkpi.com/white-round-square/32/10385_2.png) [@white-round-square](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/white-round-square)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2025, 9:49am UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/radxa-cm5-will-it-work/19329/4 "2025-08-20T09:49:09Z")
> [@Kyzer](#): > > I’ll get one and give it a go lol. AFAIK there is no wifi on radxa so you need to use an usb adapter ---
**Author:** ![Kyzer](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forum.clockworkpi.com/kyzer/32/14879_2.png) [@Kyzer](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/Kyzer)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2025, 9:50am UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/radxa-cm5-will-it-work/19329/5 "2025-08-20T09:50:09Z")
What the hell! I won’t bother… ---
**Author:** ![CopperRelic](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forum.clockworkpi.com/copperrelic/32/11942_2.png) [@CopperRelic](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/CopperRelic)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2025, 11:02am UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/radxa-cm5-will-it-work/19329/6 "2025-08-20T11:02:05Z")
Haha! The Radxa CM5 is certainly interesting in a uConsole, but not so practical, and for more reasons than just the WiFi. ---
**Author:** ![trinity](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forum.clockworkpi.com/trinity/32/16167_2.png) [@trinity](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/trinity)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2025, 2:41pm UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/radxa-cm5-will-it-work/19329/7 "2025-08-28T14:41:18Z")
The ClockworkPi mainboard has its own WLAN interface, doesn’t it? It allows the CM3 to use WiFi: > [@Raspberry Pis' config.txt](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/raspberry-pis-config-txt/19360/1): > > ```auto > # Uses the mainboard WLAN. > dtoverlay=spi-gpio35-39 > > ``` Configuration would be non-trivial and I don’t have a system to test, but with some device tree magic couldn’t it be used from the Radxa? ---
**Author:** ![Rex](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forum.clockworkpi.com/rex/32/16852_2.png) [@Rex](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/Rex)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2025, 2:43pm UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/radxa-cm5-will-it-work/19329/8 "2025-08-28T14:43:49Z")
The main board Wi-Fi is not physically connected to the CM through the adapter board. ---
**Author:** ![trinity](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forum.clockworkpi.com/trinity/32/16167_2.png) [@trinity](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/trinity)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2025, 3:48pm UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/radxa-cm5-will-it-work/19329/9 "2025-08-28T15:48:24Z")
I didn’t understand how you got your information so I found it for myself: I’ll be referencing the [ClockworkPi mainboard schematic](https://github.com/clockworkpi/uConsole/blob/master/clockwork_Mainboard_V3.14_V5_Schematic.pdf) and the [CM4 adapter board schematic](https://github.com/clockworkpi/uConsole/blob/master/clockwork_Adapter_CM4_Schematic.pdf). Ranges are inclusive of the start and end. On the mainboard, the WLAN subsystem uses the GPIO pins 3-7 for basic configuration, 14-17 for UART, 18-21 for PCM, and 22-27 for SDIO. These are all wired to the SODIMM connector for the core modules. The adapter board wires the SODIMM pins to the CM4 pins like so: - SODIMM GPIO3-5 → CM4 GPIO3-5 - SODIMM GPIO6-7 → floating - SODIMM GPIO14-27 → floating So the best one can do with the CM4 adapter board is mess with the enabled state of some of the radio components on the mainboard, and one would need a new adapter board to use the mainboard’s radios. I remain unsure of the significance of the `gpio35-39` from the overlay name. It would make some sense that the mentioned pins 35-39 were physical pins on the Pi 3, [corresponding to Broadcom GPIO numbers](https://pinout.xyz/) (on the schematics) 19 (PCM\_SYNC), 16 (UART\_RTS\_N), 26 (SDIO\_D\_2), 20 (PCM\_OUT), and ground, respectively, but then that looks like a garbled mess of signal lines. ---
**Author:** ![snipeytje](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@snipeytje](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/snipeytje)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2025, 4:30pm UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/radxa-cm5-will-it-work/19329/10 "2025-08-28T16:30:34Z")
the numbers are for the BCM GPIOs, not the physical pins on the pi connector ---
**Author:** ![trinity](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forum.clockworkpi.com/trinity/32/16167_2.png) [@trinity](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/trinity)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2025, 5:38pm UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/radxa-cm5-will-it-work/19329/11 "2025-08-28T17:38:11Z")
Could you be more verbose? I don’t know to which numbers you are referring. ---
**Author:** ![snipeytje](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@snipeytje](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/snipeytje)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2025, 5:53pm UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/radxa-cm5-will-it-work/19329/12 "2025-08-28T17:53:39Z")
It’s BCM (Broadcom) gpio 35 to 39 not physical pins 35 to 39 on the 40 pin connector All pin numbers in the overlays are Broadcom pins ---
**Author:** ![trinity](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forum.clockworkpi.com/trinity/32/16167_2.png) [@trinity](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/trinity)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2025, 2:02am UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/radxa-cm5-will-it-work/19329/13 "2025-08-30T02:02:42Z")
Do you know what the significance is of those GPIOs with regards to the WLAN subsystem? ---
**Author:** ![snipeytje](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@snipeytje](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/snipeytje)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2025, 8:44am UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/radxa-cm5-will-it-work/19329/14 "2025-08-30T08:44:15Z")
those pins can be SPI pins, so they can be used for SDIO which is what the wifi chip uses ---
**Author:** ![trinity](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forum.clockworkpi.com/trinity/32/16167_2.png) [@trinity](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/trinity)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2025, 12:30am UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/radxa-cm5-will-it-work/19329/15 "2025-09-02T00:30:38Z")
Do you know where those GPIOs are connected, electrically, to the WLAN subsystem? Perhaps I am misreading the schematic. ---
**Author:** ![Kyzer](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forum.clockworkpi.com/kyzer/32/14879_2.png) [@Kyzer](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/Kyzer)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2025, 10:23pm UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/radxa-cm5-will-it-work/19329/16 "2025-11-14T22:23:12Z")
Forgot I already had a topic on this. I finally got one… ![IMG_1564](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/uploads/clockworkpi/original/2X/a/aff2364bd115a5d7ac4ccf27a5f28bf1abb8dc71.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Kyzer](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forum.clockworkpi.com/kyzer/32/14879_2.png) [@Kyzer](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/Kyzer)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2025, 10:25pm UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/radxa-cm5-will-it-work/19329/17 "2025-11-14T22:25:02Z")
What do we do about the audio? ---
**Author:** ![white-round-square](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forum.clockworkpi.com/white-round-square/32/10385_2.png) [@white-round-square](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/white-round-square)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2025, 10:30pm UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/radxa-cm5-will-it-work/19329/18 "2025-11-14T22:30:27Z")
bluetooth headphones/speaker? ---
**Author:** ![Kyzer](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forum.clockworkpi.com/kyzer/32/14879_2.png) [@Kyzer](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/Kyzer)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2025, 5:18pm UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/radxa-cm5-will-it-work/19329/19 "2025-11-27T17:18:05Z")
IO board arrived… ![IMG_1756](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/uploads/clockworkpi/original/2X/0/034f6db14194dfefa8e7ea2b32f30cd81dad5d8e.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Kyzer](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forum.clockworkpi.com/kyzer/32/14879_2.png) [@Kyzer](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/u/Kyzer)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2025, 5:20pm UTC](https://forum.clockworkpi.com/t/radxa-cm5-will-it-work/19329/20 "2025-11-27T17:20:10Z")
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