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I'll admit I'm not a huge fan of the std xfce panel setup, but that's easy enough to change.
Actually I prefer MATE and have made images for myself with the MATE desktop without any of the XFCE4 hangover, but it is simple enough to install MATE on the std linuxcnc image, whether amd64 or arm64.

With regards to wifi & networking in general.installs network manager & the gnome applet. The reason this has been left out is because there were some latency issues, I think with the 12.x series being far better this is not such an issue.
I like the gnome applet as I like to turn wifi off when running Linuxcnc.

If a touch screen enumerates as HID it will just work. As the images we build use the RPi-Linux sources it may be a kernel module that isn't included in our build to support non HID touchscreens.
On screen keyboard, just a package we don't include.
Reasons for not using RPIOS, the fact that it uses wayland as a default and X compatibility layer is very slow, so slow that there is a significant difference when running latency tests between wayland (as stock) and changing to X.
Branding is also an issue, something I really want to deal with. Debian isn't so restrictive, hence the reason the PC images changed from Ubuntu to Debian.

There is also a thread some where on the forum regarding Linuxcnc on RPIOS. The topic author slips my mind at this moment.

I happen to like the RPIOS default desktop (LXDE-PI) way better than LinuxCNCs (XFCE or whatever it is) and a host of other reasons, including the Raspis built in touchscreen support and on-screen keyboard. Everything, including wi-fi, just seems to work. Its easy to install LinuxCNC on it. If anyone is interested, I'll start a new thread.

Hi KrisJ,

I can at least confirm a pi 5 that is able to find WiFi networks. In my case nmtui did work I chose something I remember was called ‘activate network’ and it would show a bunch (and prompt for password).

With kind regards,
Jairo 

edit: this is on the latest linuxcnc image 2.9.4 by rodw 

OK, So I think I managed to configure some GPIOs (more or less) successfully using official Rpi5 img, (Thanks for the guidance, unkonwn)

Now my problem is that I can't manage to get the WiFi working and I sorely need it for development. I'm pretty sure I ran some older release that had it working (with network-manager) out of the box but network-manager does not seem to be installed by default in this version.

What I tried is apt-get install network-manager and after that I reboot and launch the terminal based GUI with 'nmtui'. In here (in previous versions) I used to see a list of SSIDs to connect to but now the list is empty. I'm guessing that there might be an issue with some driver or similar and that no WiFi chip is recognized but I don't have the knowledge to check. Has anyone else got their WiFi up and running on the latest Rpi5 image?

Ok I get it now, Grad. You were just being human. All's good

I just remember lots of discussion around build your own last fall and went off some of the instructions in there... either which way, its a "home brew" and I'll give the official image a go.

As you might have guessed already I just downloaded the wrong file. Now you can say that you pointed me on that with your last comment. But since my linux knowledge is limited (told you so) I just needed you to tell me again to realize my mistake
Anyways it runs just fine now - thx for your help

What you were trying to boot a RPi5 with a amd64 image ?

Of course I provided the RPi5 checksum, why wouldn't I, this is a thread for the RPi5. The checksum will only work when used against a file, not a mounted file system, the checksum is for the compressed image file.

Am I missing something here ?

Thank you for your help, please notice my linux knowledge is limited so my answers may sound stupid . Anyways
cat /proc/device-tree/compatible | tr '\0' '\n'
returned:
raspberrypi, 5-model-b
brcm, bcm2712

The checksum did not match, but the link you provided is for rpi-5-debian-bookworm - I used the linuxcnc_2.9.4-amd64.hybrid.iso

Anyways, I mounted Linuxcnc image under Ubuntu and all the checksums there matched when i used
sha256sum -c sha256sum.txt

None of the Linuxcnc images and ISOs install a root user so sudo is required
Sometimes I do: sudo su
which gives you a root access (you will see the prompt change) untill you type: exit

Just use.

If you want you can installthen reboot

Good evening, I downloaded and burned the latest raspberry pi 5 image and have run into a couple of problems.  The user "cnc" password "cnc" lacks root access and only has read access to the etc file.  Is there a SU password for this latest image.  I need to make some changes to the etc /network files as there is no apparent network manager showing in the available applications.  Thanks!

There's been official images for the RPi5 from about Dec 2023.

this is an on and off project for me so I built it maybe 4 months ago before there was an official image... I'll pull down the 2.9.4 and reimage the pi with it and see if that makes it happy...

I'll report back if that doesn't fix it..

What image are you using for the rpi5? I was having read errors on my 7i97 very often with whatever image I was using (I don't remember when I got it) I downloaded the latest off of linuxcnc's site (2.9.4)

It has been rock solid. No issues running it for a week now.

sam