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Using Adafruit Ethernet Featherwing with Raspberry Pi Zero

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I recently purchased the Adafruit Ethernet Featherwing (https://www.adafruit.com/product/3201) and would like to use it with a Raspberry Pi Zero. Other than enabling SPI in raspi-config, what else do I need to do? Which driver package should I use? I am using Raspbian Lite.

For context, I plan to use it as my network controller (DHCP and local DNS server) using Pi-Hole (https://pi-hole.net/), as well as my private VPN server using PiVPN (https://www.pivpn.io/).

Any help would be appreciated.

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Re: Using Adafruit Ethernet Featherwing with Raspberry Pi Ze

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Hoo.. that's an apples-to-boomerangs kind of conversion. The runtime environments are so different that almost nothing carries over.

I don't know of any existing code for the WIZ5500 on a RasPi, and to make it work as a normal network interface you'd probably need a kernel module for the driver. It might be possible to make one with a Device Tree Overlay so you could avoid having to compile a custom kernel, but I don't know that for sure.

At minimum, you're looking at a research project. A quick search doesn't bring up any hits for the WIZ5500 on a RasPi, so there's a chance you're trying something no one else has done.

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Re: Using Adafruit Ethernet Featherwing with Raspberry Pi Ze

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Hmm, I guess I'll look for an alternative for the Raspberry Pi Zero, then.

I also happen to have a Raspberry Pi Pico. What about that one, is it compatible?

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Re: Using Adafruit Ethernet Featherwing with Raspberry Pi Ze

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The RasPi Pico is a microcontroller board, so it's generally comparable to an Arduino or other microcontroller dev board. It doesn't have any kind of operating system though, so it isn't comparable to a RasPi Zero.

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