No work on the RM564 today... I was hoping to open it up this afternoon.
Instead, spent the day effing around with trying to install LINUX on a new PC (except for the ancient GPU).
It started off okay, with creating an installation USB and doing the install of Ubuntu 20.04.
However, there was no networking. Eventually discovered that there is no driver for the on-board Ethernet.
Download the driver, and attempt to install.
Driver installation needs make (and other things still to be discovered).
Make can be installed as part of build-essential using apt-get.
Apt-get needs ethernet
I went to the family computer and searched the internet on how to go about it.
The recommendations are to create a list of needed files and download from the sources. That makes total sense.
I tried many variations to create such a file list.
Apt-get on the family computer gives an error message that essentially says that I have the latest already installed and refuses to generate the file list
I also tried out instructions for copy the apt-get archive from the family computer, but there was only an empty folder.
My google-foo is exhausted.
My limited LINUX knowledge is also exhausted.
I am not looking forward to manually downloading, copying and installing an individual file and then repeatedly finding yet another dependency...
(BTW, Winbloze 10 just worked
)
Maybe I will go do house renovations now. It is only -7 deg C outside, but feels it would be less painful than computer stuff at the moment.
Wait a minute ... I am actually around at Discord time! How do I join, in seems the invite on TEA page 1 has expired...