Pico W clone

[Greg-Amiga]

Hello!
Don't work for me with Pico W clone from China.
HDA is ok on log but the computer don't scan the SCSI chain and don't boot.
Any way to work with it?

[paulroberthill]

A real PI Pico is very cheap. Use a real PI Pico.

[Greg-Amiga]

Okay, but I bought clones by mistake, and they're already soldered onto my boards.
So I wanted to know if there are plans to support them or not.
(ESP8285 WiFi module).
Thanks.

[erichelgeson]

Could you please provide the exact clone? It's hard to know without seeing any info about it.

But since you mentioned it has a ESP wifi module, that is likely not going to be a priority (and would likely be very complex) to add in since we support the RM2 module. As paul mentioned real Pico/2/w are very inexpensive.

If the pin out is the same then the SCSI functionality should still work.

[Greg-Amiga]

This is it:
RP2040 pico W-2023

[erichelgeson]

A bit of research shows this isn't a very supported board outside of some python scripts. You need to manually load a binary firmware blob onto the wifi chip. If someone contributed a patch that made this work I'd be happy to review but in my short research it looks like a time sink to try to make work.

[Greg-Amiga]

Ok thank you erichelgeson.
(I already uploaded the binary onto the wifi chip)