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RUNNING: Update note about Wi-Fi
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Thanks to diederik, it works now out of the box with Model B, so
remove the note saying it doesn't and adjust it to only apply to
SOQuartz.
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### Wi-Fi

Plebian (or Debian, for that matter) does not yet properly package the wireless
firmware needed for the Model B or SOQuartz's Wi-Fi chip. Therefore, Wi-Fi won't
work out of the box.
firmware needed for the SOQuartz's Wi-Fi chip. Therefore, Wi-Fi won't work out
of the box on SOQuartz, but it will work on Model B.


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These make it work with SOQuartz CM4:

curl -o "/lib/firmware/brcm/brcmfmac43455-sdio.pine64,soquartz-cm4io.bin" "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/RPi-Distro/firmware-nonfree/buster/brcm/brcmfmac43455-sdio.bin"
curl -o "/lib/firmware/brcm/brcmfmac43455-sdio.pine64,soquartz-cm4io.clm_blob" "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/RPi-Distro/firmware-nonfree/buster/brcm/brcmfmac43455-sdio.clm_blob"
curl -o "/lib/firmware/brcm/brcmfmac43455-sdio.pine64,soquartz-cm4io.txt" "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/RPi-Distro/firmware-nonfree/buster/brcm/brcmfmac43455-sdio.txt"
curl -o "/lib/firmware/brcm/BCM4345C0.pine64,soquartz-cm4io.hcd" "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/RPi-Distro/bluez-firmware/master/broadcom/BCM4345C0.hcd"

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That will load customised rpi specific firmware onto that wifi chip so I don't recommend this, usually you'll need just one device specific symlink. to the .txt

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@stevenlafl can you try creating a link from /lib/firmware/brcm/brcmfmac43455-sdio.pine64,soquartz-cm4io.txt to /lib/firmware/brcm/brcmfmac43455-sdio.AW-CM256SM.txt and installing the firmware-brcm80211 package if you didn't already have it? With a bit of luck, that should be enough for Wi-Fi.

I guess the .hcd file is bluetooth and I haven't gotten that working properly myself, so can't comment on that.

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