The equipment listed below is required for complete functionality of the standalone environment. The only devices that are tested to work properly in this solution are the specific brands and models listed below. Support for other types of equipment is not available at this time.
- Raspberry Pi 4B device
- Standard USB keyboard
- Television set/monitor with HDMI input.
- Ethernet cables
- USB-Ethernet Adapter
- SD Card (Preferably 8GB or more)
- Tp-link dongles
- USB to Serial Debugging Adaptor (Needed only for serial debugging)
Purchase Link USB to Serial
The above-mentioned adaptor (PL2303) will support Linux host machine (ubuntu) with proper connection between RPI4 as below
After connection, please run minicom in host machine to establish serial connection with RPI.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Minicom
Note: In usual, adaptor will have device name as ttyUSB0 after connected to host PC (can be checked using dmesg command in host). Please configure minicom accordingly.
Supported drivers for USB-to-Ethernet Adapters
- ASIX based drivers
- r8152 driver
Validated USB-to-Ethernet Adapters
- Linksys - ASIX AX88772 USB 2.0 Ethernet driver
- cable matters - r8152 driver
If any additional driver support required, please edit the below cfg file to enable your driver.
https://code.rdkcentral.com/r/plugins/gitiles/rdk/components/generic/rdk-oe/meta-cmf-raspberrypi/+/refs/heads/rdk-next/recipes-kernel/linux/files/remove_unused_modules.cfg
