Hi Tom, It may seem frustrating, but as a user of FreeBSD, I am blown away by the progress made by Risc OS... wifi on FreeBSD isn't good, and it isn't good despite a much higher budget - which makes you wonder. The browser issue could be better, that's agreed.... I think the progress so far is pretty good for Risc OS, and isn't this still in Beta?
As others have said below; there is a newer release of RISC OS 5.30 (updated mid May 2024), and also a new version of the wi-fi driver too (also mid May). Both of these things should make a big difference to you.
Mainly retro computing enthusiasts from the UK, or those that want to run BBC BASIC in native 32-bit mode without emulator.... Other then that very very little indeed... Its fun to play with if you dont expect it to do much of anything useful
You've got exactly the same issue i had with my Pi 400, it seems theres an issue with the RISC OS WiFi drivers and certain revisions of the Pi 400. If you turn off WiFi security on your router (Open WiFi), it will work! Though thats not really a long term option as folk wont want to leave their WiFi unsecured! Hopefully will be fixed in a later release. Apparently there's another WiFi stack for RISC OS that works OK, but i havent tried that. Like you said, this should just work out of the box and is not a great advert for RISC OS.
Unfortunately I won't be trying on my raspberry pi400, (somehow I feel cheated by the pi foundation because of the chip change and performance boost that gives in some circumstances) I wonder if pi4 would have worked better. I understand your comments ref the beta nightly, but I hope that early issues would be picked up and fixed in there.
You are not getting a ip address from your dhcp, as am i. You have a 169 address but should be getting a 192. I tried it manually but not workning. I sent an email to them hoping for a solution.
Hi Tom,
It may seem frustrating, but as a user of FreeBSD, I am blown away by the progress made by Risc OS... wifi on FreeBSD isn't good, and it isn't good despite a much higher budget - which makes you wonder. The browser issue could be better, that's agreed....
I think the progress so far is pretty good for Risc OS, and isn't this still in Beta?
As others have said below; there is a newer release of RISC OS 5.30 (updated mid May 2024), and also a new version of the wi-fi driver too (also mid May). Both of these things should make a big difference to you.
Spoiler Alert... progress has been made, but its not what you think it is.... new update video on its way shortly!
looks like its missing the gateway address (probably not handling the DHCP protocol correctly). Try a manual entry for the IP config & reboot
Yep thats been bought to my attention. Others seem to be having the issue, strange how all quite it is until I make a much delayed video about it???
I made it work with the Vonets router, but it was tricky. I think I had to edit some DHCP script. TLDR: it needs the wifi driver ported properly
So... Who is this kind of operating system for in 2024? What is the actual usecase for it other than just being another niche OS?
Mainly retro computing enthusiasts from the UK, or those that want to run BBC BASIC in native 32-bit mode without emulator.... Other then that very very little indeed...
Its fun to play with if you dont expect it to do much of anything useful
You've got exactly the same issue i had with my Pi 400, it seems theres an issue with the RISC OS WiFi drivers and certain revisions of the Pi 400. If you turn off WiFi security on your router (Open WiFi), it will work! Though thats not really a long term option as folk wont want to leave their WiFi unsecured! Hopefully will be fixed in a later release. Apparently there's another WiFi stack for RISC OS that works OK, but i havent tried that. Like you said, this should just work out of the box and is not a great advert for RISC OS.
Unfortunately I won't be trying on my raspberry pi400, (somehow I feel cheated by the pi foundation because of the chip change and performance boost that gives in some circumstances)
I wonder if pi4 would have worked better. I understand your comments ref the beta nightly, but I hope that early issues would be picked up and fixed in there.
Seems rather cumbersome overall
I quite agree, disappointing over all, with a rather limited used case, due to the situation with the sub par web browsers and media handling.
You are not getting a ip address from your dhcp, as am i. You have a 169 address but should be getting a 192. I tried it manually but not workning. I sent an email to them hoping for a solution.
I have been reading up on the forums today, apparently another build of 5.30 is now live which might address this issue, im yet to investigate
Also might see what this dose on a Pi3B & 4B... what hardware are you using?
@@WiFiSheep I have a pi 400, received it yesterday. Been having fun programming Basic, not done that since 1985
@@WiFiSheep Probably some kind of a handshake problem between hardware.
Yes I think that looks to be the consensus