LinuxCNC and Linux and Ubuntu and PC and RPi ping issues with Mesa 7i96s

I think the raspberry pie five and Mesa set up is really quite brilliant. It’s very compact, and boots up really fast. The only negative i have found is that it’s difficult to put an external Wi-Fi antenna on the pie. If the pie is inside a metal box, it won’t connect easily to a Wi-Fi router. You can get around this by using an external Wi-Fi dongle. Or move the excess point and pie closer together.

No need for a base thread with an external motion controller.
I run mine with a NVMe drive, yeah boot is really fast, I've been playing a around with custom hardware and hostmot2 firmware over SPI. ATM I'm working on a ethernet board to replace the SPI\EPP board that mates with the fpga board I'm using.

If you could add your Etherent mods to the thread linked below it would be great, trying to have a one stop place for all issues/suggestions and such.
forum.linuxcnc.org/9-installing-linuxcnc...official-images-only

Cheers
Rob

 If you get a USB wifi dongle with an external antenna you can get a SMA extension cable with a bulkhead connector on the end. Drill hole through enclosure, insert fitting and attach with supplied nut, and attach the antenna from the dongle. I have done this a few times now.