Lessons Learned After Finally Configuring a Raspberry Pi CM4 Mini Router (Bought in 2022) Product Mini Router built with Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 Dual Gigabit Ethernet NICs 4GB RAM / 32GB eMMC Pre-installed OpenWrt Compact form factor, fanless, low power Background: A Device That Waited Its Turn I bought this device back in 2022 . At the time, it looked like the perfect small router: Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 Dual Ethernet ports OpenWrt already installed No SD card required thanks to eMMC But like many homelab projects, it ended up sitting on a shelf . Fast forward to today — with more networking experience, a clearer home network plan, and a real need for a flexible router — I finally decided to configure it properly. That’s when the real journey started. What I Expected (Even in 2025) Even knowing this wasn’t a consumer router, I still expected: Plug WAN into my upstream router Plug LAN into my laptop Access 192.168.1.1 Hav...
Long time without writing. Well this is a new experience I had. I was working last night, shut down my laptop. Today on the morning I noticed something strange in my laptop each time I enter my password Unity never finish to load. I restart several time, and decide to start the graphical environment from the CLI mode. My surprise is the following. starting timidity++ alsa midi emulation fail So I start to google it from my smartphone and find some solutions in askubuntu. Solution #1 http://askubuntu.com/questions/63382/ubuntu-11-04-hangs-while-booting Solution #2 http://lkubuntu.wordpress.com/2011/08/30/quick-and-easy-way-to-fix-x11-issues/ So when I restart my system again finally it loads completely, but I was missing a nice surprise!!! Seven or eight windows about error reports. The funny part of this story is that each time I click in the report button, it never open the launchpad window for reporting the bu...