Serial is through the headphone jack but there's a switch inside to change it from headphone to serial. So 10 screws or so.
On Sat, Oct 31, 2020, 1:21 PM Christian Kastner <c...@debian.org> wrote: > On 4/22/20 7:15 PM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > > The debian-installer concatenateable images from buster *should* work > > with *serial console*: > > > > > https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/buster/main/installer-arm64/current/images/netboot/SD-card-images/README.concatenateable_images > > > > Getting the installer running on LCD is still a work-in-progress, but > > you *might* be able to get the text console running by editing the boot > > arguments on the boot media and passing console=tty0 and adding the > > appropriate modules to the initrd by appending an additional cpio > > archive to it... finding out exactly which modules... is a > > project. Though you could append all of the modules for the matching > > kernel version. > > > > But no, there's no image that will "just work" without some fiddling. > > I found this older thread and wanted to check if there have been any > updates on this that I might have missed? > > I gave the images from buster a try and the installation process ran > fine on LCD until the network interface wasn't found. > > Apparently the WIFI is a RTL8723cs device and support landed in 5.9, > coincidentally the kernel in bullseye, so I gave its SD card images a > try. However, they launch to a black screen, so I assume that this still > goes out to serial? > > Assuming that I figure out how to connect the serial (apparently through > the headphone jack), should installation over serial be routine, or are > there also still gotchas? > > Thanks, > Christian > >
