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vikingtons@lemmy.world 2 months agoI deeply regret my pi5 purchase. Here I was hoping to use it as a low power application server but I cannot get Ethernet workind reliably after a hot reboot. Seems to be a distro agnostic issue, though I acknowledge this could be a part failure.
I don’t know if you’ve already tried this, but I’ve had weird behavior with older Pi3s when the power supplies weren’t up to snuff.
A good 5V/10A (yeah I know they only need 5A) sorted out one of mine that had a heavy load of Neopixels running on it, even though the neopixels had their own 5V supply.
I haven’t needed to get a Pi5 for any of my projects and really use them as big arduinos in certain uses (better for camera detection and remote reprogramming).
That’s a fair point. I’m using the first party power supply but I could experiment with several others.
Before you throw the pi5 out, buy a USB Ethernet adapter ? I have a few of them and they work well with Linux and BSD.
Yeah from what I’ve seen of Jeff geerling’s testing it can use all of a 2.5g and about 3.5 of a 5gbit adapter
This sounds promising, thank you for the info
That’s not a bad idea. I can give that a try for sure. I’m guessing the power implications here are minimal as well?
I’m guessing the power implications here are minimal as well?
That’s an interesting point I didn’t think about.I don’t know and I have no gadget to test that.Once I’ve left the USB Ethernet adapter in a smart phone and forgot to take it out thought I did take the Ethernet cable out. The next day I saw that the phone had used a lot of battery power.I guess the phone kept talking to the adapter and the build in small light.I have one adapter without a light so I can test how much battery that would roughly consume, just out of curiosity.
No problem at all. I can try to measure this with a socket wattmeter I have lying around.
The power implications aren’t likely to he a deal breaker, but I do love the idea of operating an application server at approx 7W (that said, the same power envelope is also achievable on certain x86-64 home server platforms now).
sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 2 months ago
I’m the opposite, my Pi 5 is my favourite thing!
vikingtons@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m glad it’s working for you. I’m wondering if my issues will be resolved in the future by firmware upgrades (also holding out for uboot updates anyway). Not giving up on it just yet.
sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 2 months ago
Is there a thread or bug report about your issues? That’s definitely something you need to be active about them resolving.
vikingtons@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You’re right. There is on the raspberry pi forums, I’ve chimed in on the past, will need to check back in with it.