<html><head></head><body><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div>... and some 'crow' consumed per prior rant ... (trust me, does not taste like chicken, no matter how much tabasco...)<br><br>Issues and Challenges Taken Head-On... and some Take-Aways<br><br>- download and try to 'build' node(s) with prior or latest build</div><div>- 'bad' supply, new low voltage errors<br></div><div><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">- enjoy the ease of asl-menu</span></span></span></span></div><div><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">- why doesn't it recognize my eth0 and RA-40?</span></span><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>We often hear "bad card..."</div><div><br>- despite indeed some "bad card" attempts, changing methods allowed 'bad' cards to work. Probably NOT a bad SD card or in my case USB sticks. So far we can't even tell what specs/speed, etc. absolutely will work, absolutely will NOT work, or might work. We don't even know what internal schemes card makers employ in their products. I'm checking out a couple of supposed flash memory device diagnostics to see if anything might be obvious. I'm thinking a full-write and verify utility like <span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">h2testw (</span></span><a href="https://www.heise.de/download/product/h2testw-50539" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.heise.de/download/product/h2testw-50539</a>) may help - perhaps as a card 'conditioner' before writing an image to stick. This will not be a short-delivery cycle diversion...</div><div><br>- I've variously used Win32DiskImager or Etcher in a wonderful Win10 workstation-class main PC... may be time to re-think that (haven't looked at Rufus, or <span><a href="http://unetbootin.github.io/" style="color: rgb(51, 143, 233); text-decoration-line: underline; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">unetbootin</a>, etc. yet) and either seems to yield various results... but it's not very clear/apparent that various other system disk and USB I/O operations or just how Windows handles all of this. <br><br>- before firing up a 'proper' Linux system to do all this with, or just use Raspbian on the Pi itself, I dug out my MacBook Air and Applepi-baker... which has proven quite consistent, reliable and happiness through over a dozen 'stick'/card image writes and saving images to reproduce to save time making other new nodes. I know - who just happens to have a 'dusty' MacBook laying about? Point is - is the problem Windows? The box x-nix is running on, or what? Not quite sure.<br><br>- Bottom-line - unless you have a platform and tool you KNOW works, don't totally shame Windows - not there yet.<br><br><br></span></div><div><span>"It's Your Power Supply..."</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>- no, no it's not, unless/until it IS... whether using a generic USB-wart of 1.5A, *the* accompanying 2.5A 'wart' with many Pi kits, or a PowerWerx USB Buddy 5v 3A DC device ... "low voltage error" still can/has appeared out of nowhere with clean 5.1v into the MicroUSB. I've had no less than 4.93 at the connected RA-40 and 4.96 at the Pi - clean, scoped, flat DC. The Pi should not 'react' until 4.65v. <br><br></span></div><div><span>- if we determine, somehow, that there is something imposing noise on the 5v bus or the Pi's internal 3.3v... maybe we can preempt this with a suitably placed add-on filter or two. TBD.<br><br><br></span></div><div><span>"asl-menu didn't work..."<br><br>- AH-HA! Big thanks to Steve and Nate for sleuthing this one FAST!<br><br></span></div><div><span>- First take-away - start fresh - do NOT import any config files from "some other builds"<br><br></span></div><div><span>- Yet to be identified, parsed, handled is what the custom/undocumented (?) non-ASL configuration items are... (but certainly there are standard parameter lines we built and want... save those off and bring them in one at a time after you have a good basic working node...) </span></div><div><span><br>- Even with a fresh start... well, see next point...<br><br></span></div><div><span>- It didn't know what to configure for 'eth0' because in some x-nix flavors, and the Pi, 'eth0' does not exist, but '<span>enxab12cd34ef56' does - the adapter "enx+MACaddress" - I don't know how or if this can be resolved... 'ifconfig' is your friend to get the 'NIC' identity to use for manual IP configuration steps.<br></span><br><br>"Why doesn't Asterisk/rpt see my radio interface device?"</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>- I don't have an answer for this one... back to the "bad SD card" conundrum perhaps... <br><br>-------------------------------<br><br>Once I worked around and through the various challenges, I have established one good working node as a reference platform to clone, reproduce, edit, and deploy as a consistent upgrade for 4+ other nodes in our system. I captured a working image with ApplePi-baker and made 6 additional core working sticks. Onward! <br><br>The goal is to off-load a handful of $400+ equally-oddly-custom-programmed multi-port controllers to reduce rack space, variables, power consumption... most interfaced with RA-35 or RA-40, and testing a newish comprehensive "pi-hat" out of Canada. <br><br>I'm still working through a couple of points - mostly "cheat sheet" items to try and contribute yet-another-AllStar-how-to (OMG!) I've got 6-8 others lying about and they are all 'challenging' in many points - too assuming of knowledge of x-nix, paths, logs, scripts, permissions, skipping steps, apt-get, etc. This is a $35 platform 10-year-olds get to work making robots and media servers... we can do this... yes?<br><br>Back to the rest of my 'crow' and following through.<br><br>Thanks for listening.</span></div><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>