ASL3 on RPi 3 Using Image allstar3-arm64-3.0.18.img.xz

AllStarLink
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I have recently been unable to get a RPi 3B+ to run with the allstar3-arm64-3.0.18.img.xz.

The image boots, runs for a few seconds and sits there. The network connection is never established.

I have made several ASL Nodes with RPi 4's but this RPi 3 issue is baffling.

  • Does the Pi appliance no longer support anything less than an RPi 4?

  • Is it a memory issue?
    (RPi 3's have only 1 GB of RAM; I have been using RPi 4's with 4 GB of RAM.)

Roger
WA1NVC

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I read that you have to use the older version of the raspberry pi image installer, not the latest as the new one breaks the WiFi config. Maybe that’s your problem.

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The latest Raspberry Pi Imager application has an annoying bug that is affecting many people. For details, have a look at Do Not Use Pi Imager 1.9.4.

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I am aware of the Raspberry Pi Imager problem and have dealt with it.

I am also not using WiFi.

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I currently have the latest version of ASL3 running on an RPi5, RPi4, and RPi Zero 2 W (w/512MB of RAM).

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Can you put a screen and keyboard on it to see what's going on? There's no de facto problems with a Pi 3B - it's supported.

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So after I made the post yesterday, I set the node aside. I plugged it back in this morning and there was immediately a lot of disk activity for several minutes, the network connection came up, and I could get to the dashboard. It appears to be fine.

This was not my only try at this. I used two RPi3B+, two SDcards, and tried this multiple times with multiple images before the first post. I had also tried a power cycle on multiple images before THIS time it finally worked!

So I looked for a difference, found an older RPi 3B Rev 1.2 rather than the two RPi 3B+ Rev 1.4, and it came up perfectly the very first time. So something different between the RPi 3B and RPi 3B+?

Roger
WA1NVC

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There shouldn't be, but you may need to do an eeprom update of the v1.2 unit from an 32-bit OS first? That's just speculative though. I believe that you need certain firmware, that comes with the normal package stream, to do 64-bit on Pi 3s.