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Old 07-11-2019, 10:48 AM   #1
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Anyone uses Banana Pi BPI-W2?


Banana Pi BPI-W2 looks perfect for a router. I'd love to buy it and have slackware on it. According to the documentation Banana Pi is among the compatible devices, but there are quite a few versions of Banana Pi, and I could not ascertain whether Banana Pi BPI-W2 is among them. Anyone could tell me? Anyone has this board?

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Old 07-12-2019, 08:19 AM   #2
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a router is a good one or having that hover one hundred feet above you,,,

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Old 07-12-2019, 08:25 AM   #3
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Thanks

To summarize your answer, no, you don't own a BPI-W2, and slackware running on it is questionable at best.
 
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I don't have BananaPi myself, but it doesn't look like Slackware supports BananaPi boards.

http://arm.slackware.com/supportedplatforms/
http://docs.slackware.com/howtos:har...llation_guides

They do support RaspberryPi boards though, perhaps one of those might work for you instead.

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Thanks, yes, it looks like Slackware isn't going to run on this one. On this page http://arm.slackware.com/releases/ they mention Banana Pi (Original and Pro), but those must be different from the one I am eyeing (BPI-W2)
 
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To summarize your answer, no, you don't own a BPI-W2, and slackware running on it is questionable at best.
Kind-of but somebody else searched it out for you...

Pi 4 goes to 4G on RAM and the Zero is $5.00?
 
  


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