Hello Everyone, Are there any plans for placing WiFi chips on the Pocket Beagle 2? I remember seeing a couple posts about some individuals utilizing some WiFi chips on the Pocket Beagle 2 and I wanted to find out if they would be available in future configurations already soldered/baked. If so, YA…

Oops. I see now. The nonpopulated section is actually for eMMC and not a WiFi chipset. Argh…I keep fooling myself.

oh and double oh, I was unaware of what you were typing and the validity of it. So, click boards work. I did not know that the click boards fit on the Pocket Beagle 2. SPI or UART seems fair… I will research the click boards they have available for the PB2 now. update I see they have many Wifi m…

Yes there are Wi-Fi click boards, but quite expensive, and I worry about going over the spi interface. I thought I could recall that pb2 pins could be configured as usb or Ethernet - but hazy in my mind though, shall have to look it up, and then see what hardware and overlays are needed. To me it do…

the two USB, one is the USB-C and the other is on P1 header the Ethernet are the RMII and RGMII, there have been people here recently working on getting these working. time will only tell if capes become available. as for spi, wiz850io module gets about 9.5M/bit baudrate.

I looked into usb 2.0 vs SPI. The usb should be faster, although both signals go on the same wires (point to point serial connection). Still using the usb hardware in the cpu should be better. Wi-Fi over SPI is unusual, quick Google and couldn’t see any standards here, or simple plug and play solut…

Think I went though everything on adafruit, nothing that’s good. Aliexpress wasn’t showing much. If you do your own desigh, I’d suggest using something like https://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/cc2544.pdf?ts=1792076588254

Do it in a usual way - through the cape. Put a USB hub and attach WiFi chip there :smiley: Meantime can add more peripheral…

Are there cape that do the outside rows of the headers? I could only see USB on the outside pins, and the click board plug into the inside pins. So it has to be a more general cape than the click boards.

an example at this link [image] Second USB for PocketBeagle2: pinouts and configuration? General Discussion I did all 6 pins (5,7,9,11,13,15) connected as for PB1 and still don’t see second USB. I guess there is something in PB2 configuration which I am missin…

I was thinking the missing chip on the Pocket Beagle 2 was wifi and not an eMMC chip. My error completely. I found out later, after error on past thoughts without current research, the missing chip is an eMMC and not a wifi chip. So, again. My error here. I thought I changed the header to this que…

Yes trade-off is between putting a proper usb2.0 header on the PB2 pins - and then using a standard USB to WiFi solution. I had in mind can one get the usb to 802.11 on a small pcb - then do do jumpers into the PB2 pins. Had in mind based on something like this: https://www.ti.com/pdfs/bcg/tnetw1450…

Are there plans for WiFi for the Pocket Beagle 2?

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amf99 October 19, 2026, 4:28pm 12

an example at this link