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The Liberux Nexx (liberux.net/) seems like it could be the I've been waiting for (assuming, RK3588s does not burn through that battery in minutes ;-) )

You can follow them @Liberux

(Thanks @awai for the hint!)

liberux.netLiberux – Privacy, Security, Freedom

@linmob @awai @Liberux anyone has details on the AW-CM256SM (CYW43455 chipset) Wi-Fi, and its general expectations regarding perfs?

In my experience, one of the worst flaw in the Pinephone (A64) was its Wi-Fi chipset, and integration thereof.

The CYW43455 is the one used in recent Raspberry Pi models, which I've been told is "bad"... But I'm still not discounting it given the context. It could be a Raspberry Pi issue...

... though it reportedly still can't do WPA3, which doesn't bode well.

... but maybe there's hope(?), reportedly the Asahi Linux people have made good work around the driver it uses?

Anyways: I wonder how likely it is, that Wi-Fi is going to be the Achille's heel of this new device.

@samueldr @linmob @Liberux This is the module used in the PinePhone Pro, and I don't think I saw any wifi-related complaint for this device.

To me that's a plus, as we know the mainline driver "just works" :)

@awai @linmob @Liberux Huh... I didn't know.

The first PinePhone Pro revision staff with AP6256, the second rev and upcoming production all use AW-CM256SM.

Which I guess explains why it didn't register with me at first. Though I suspect the actual chipset in use differs between CYW43455 and AP6256... So I won't make a judgement call based on that.

Though quickly searching for WPA3 and pinephone pro, it looks like it also had issues with WPA3 🤔. (I suspect those reports are coming from AW-CM256SM models...)

But if it's at least not worse than my experience with the AP6256, it should be serviceable for Wi-Fi, and not a drawback for most use-cases at first. Good, I guess.

A-wai :debian:

@samueldr @linmob @Liberux

> Though I suspect the actual chipset in use differs between CYW43455 and AP6256...

IIRC that's the same exact chipset, just a different module vendor (at least they both work with the same "compatible" string and FW files)

@awai @linmob @Liberux yeah, knowing the actual “Broadcom” IP in actual implementation sometimes is hard to come by without having the device on-hand... Sounds plausible though.