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thwill

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Posted: 12:56pm 23 Apr 2025      

You really did jump onto this wagon before I had the opportunity to attach the wheels .

  Martin H. said  
  thwill said  1. Have you tried configuring a wireless dongle and SSH'ing into the thing ? Depending on your answer to question 3 it may not be strictly necessary but I want to know what tools we have to work with.

I don't have a USBC WIFI stick or a suitable adapter at the moment, so the console is currently unable to connect to the network


You're probably going to need one.

You might want to do some research on suitable Wifi adapters because apparently they don't all work with the R36S hardware.

I am using one that I have from several years back, an "Edimax EW-7811UN 150Mbps Wireless Nano USB Adapter" connected to an OTG Type C cable adapter with an additional USB extension cable to reduce the interference between the Wifi and the console's speaker.

  Martin H. said  
  thwill said  2. Are you running with one SD card or two (one for OS and one for ROMs) ?

EmuElec appears to be permanently installed in the console. I therefore have no access to the internal file system. The games are on the SD card (FAT 32).
To start Ark OS I have a 2nd SD card (one for OS and one for ROMs). Whereby I only have access to the boot and Rom partition with Windows.


Hmm, I don't understand that. I don't think EmuElec is firmware so it should be on an SD card. How many SD card slots does the R36S Pro have, my standard R36S has one on the right which I have ArkOS on and one on the left that I have the ROMs on.

  Martin H. said  
  thwill said  Do you have a PC that can read the contents of the SD card and read/write to its file-system ?

Since I use windows this looks bad, the possibility would be that I can access the Linux partitions with the Raspberry PI.


OK, you need to check out whether that is possible; you will need some way to copy files onto the device.

Tom
Edited 2025-04-23 23:28 by thwill