Release RoPieee 2023.07

Hmmm… that could very well be, unfortunately. The Usbridge makes use of a network chip of which the driver has not been upstreamed. In the past I had to manually patch the kernel with a driver update.

However, this is no longer possible for the 6.1 kernel, as this so-called ‘out-of-three’ driver isn’t been kept up to date. And indeed I see more reports online that even in the latest kernels the original driver is not working correctly.

So in general I think that Allo dropped the ball here: they should have taken care of properly upstreaming their out-of-three driver with the kernel community. Or at least make sure that their out-of-three driver is being kept up to date.

For now here is a link to the previous stable build: https://image.ropieee.io/ropieeexl_ose_pi3-2023.5.1-stable.20230531.989.bin.xz

If there are plenty of Usbridge users in the RoPieee family then I’m considering keeping a version alive with the old kernel specifically.

Thanks

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