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I'm using debian, no access to windows. with RX-TX locked adapter sends echos, but no data from box. will tryCH340G once it arrives, cause I saw in this post was same issue.

It's the link up/down problem. Never seen this under bullseye but it happens on bookworm

after some research i have (finally) found the original archives form balbes. they can also been burn to the internal eemc. with some work you can run bookworm with kernel 3.10.99 (dont ask why) from the internal storage... https://archive.org/details/amlogic-s805-linux tks for 0jw4tts witch uploaded those files to archive.og !!!

Guys, does anyone know how to enable the TV Box's wifi with the ik316 process? I downloaded armbian, the only thing missing is wifi. Data transmission works with a network cable, only the wifi is having problems. The iso I downloaded was Armbian-unofficial_25.05.0-trunk_X96q-lpddr3_bookworm_edge_6.12.11_xfce_desktop.img.xz

No logs - no issue. https://debug.armbian.de

Be aware that the answer might depend on the filesystem you are using on your board Be aware that a resize operation can easily destroy your data or at least make it inaccessible have a look at shrink-backup for "reverse"

On the ROCK 5B+, I am getting the following error at boot [ 12.361648] cfg80211: Loading compiled-in X.509 certificates for regulatory database [ 12.389297] cfg80211: Loaded X.509 cert 'sforshee: 00b28ddf47aef9cea7' [ 12.390688] cfg80211: Loaded X.509 cert 'wens: 61c038651aabdcf94bd0ac7ff06c7248db18c600' [ 12.392699] cfg80211: loaded regulatory.db is malformed or signature is missing/invalid I believe this is the cause of being unable to set the regulatory region for WiFi. Running sudo iw reg get returns global country 00: DFS-UNSET even after running sudo iw reg set GB

@Popolon indeed this issue rot for a long time. I cleaned up my backlog to have more time for armbian. Also I still have quite a few processes to learn about armbian board maintenance still to this day. But you confirm that with mainline 6.12 all is fine ? But, indeed no HDMI out and no audio. I still have a patch for mainline 6.12 in the pipe about a race condition between SATA chip and nvme as far as I remind. I will prioritize data vendor kernel debugging if this mainline patch is not required (and indeed mainline still lacks any multimedia capability, this might be a showstopper for most users) even though I am close to complete testing and send PR for this one. As of now I have confirmed that this mainline patch set does not help vendor as the vendor branch has a hack that workaround the issue that mainline faces about this SATA/nvme race.

I haven't checked yet, first of all I was interested in the main core of 6.15

100mbps is enough for all my projects. if not, there are some usb3 gigabit adapters

Looks like the server images uses systemd for network control, but desktop images use network manager. I believe this should build the server images with network manager: ./compile.sh NETWORKING_STACK="network-manager"

Network bridge is added within armbian-config Docker install ... Perhaps open a ticket https://github.com/armbian/configng so this is eventually done properly.

@ZjemCiKolege than you! Now wireless is activated by the overlay. @c0rnelius wifi ok but I'm still missing bluetooth (pb with the controller). See dmseg attached. dmseg-H-wifi-bt.txt

Issues with the build framework, building Armbian to say, should be reported in the framework repository. https://github.com/armbian/build/ Make sure you include full logs. Use the curl command at the very and of the process or use SHARE_LOG=yes as build switch. Otherwise report might be rejected.

Thank you, I will study it.

Mainline audio is not working. Vendor audio is working but not activated by default yet

Sorry took so long: workaround is to set the two mixer controls via cli: amixer -c 4 sset 'Left Headphone Mixer Left DAC' on amixer -c 4 sset 'Right Headphone Mixer Right DAC' on they are off on armbian and on the initial image I was testing with which you properly sorted out was Radxa default Debian image. Edit: note you can increase the sound output by increasing "Headphone Mixer", via amixer or interactively via "alsamixer -c 4". Edit 2: note that this only works for the vendor kernel. I don't get audio out with the mainline one (replace -c 4 by -c 0 there as there is only one audio device available with mainline)

Sorry for the late reply. Note the baud rate is set in U-Boot to 1.5Mbps (and your device tells max 1Mbps).

This is for rock 5b. The U-boot requirements is for rock 5b only as it seems to be due to rock 5b being powered via this usb-c port (and talks about the USB-PD negociation needing to happen in u-boot). So this patch to rock 5b dts will not fix rock-5-itx support. Edit: Mind I have not checked yet if the rock-5-itx dts already has this code or not.

How do I change the default desktop environment on Debian 12 startup from cinnamon to xfce4? I have installed xfce4 and it's related "goodies", added a .Xclients file containing "startxfc4" in both root and ~/ folder locations. But the unit sometimes boots back into cinnamon. I do not see anything under armbian-config to control the desktop environment or to switch between cli/gui. I recall such options under orangepi-config (at least the cli/gui switching).

After years of thinking, wishing and tinkering - Armbian automated WiFi performance benchmark system: https://docs.armbian.com/WifiPerformance/ From latest WiFi 7 down to (in)famous xradio XR819.

Tested and worked Thank you for your contribution !

Hi @Ed van den Enden, I'm still pressing "X" to doubt that dtoverlay=... will work for sunxi boards running Armbian like the Banana Pi M2 zero, as your points do not work on my Orange Pi zero (which is running sunxi Allwinner H2+ just like the Bananana Pi M2 zero). Also, your provided logging clearly indicates that the kernel did not configure any additional RTC, just the H2+ built-in one. But then again, I don't mind being wrong every now and then in life. Can you share the output of the following commands: ls -Failh /dev/rtc* ls -Failh /sys/class/rtc/ egrep -- . /sys/class/rtc/*/name dmesg | egrep -i -- 'rtc' And to read the actual clocks: sudo hwclock --rtc=/dev/rtc0 # per default this is the H2+ built-in RTC sudo hwclock --rtc=/dev/rtc1 # per default this is going to be the I2C RTC Posting the link to @IgorS's topic that shows exactly what to do here again: Also, for reference, here is a link to the Allwinner H2+ datasheet, where it also mentions clearly (chapter 4.8 RTC on page 171) that the SoC itself also has an on-board RTC (this is the RTC detected by the kernel as sun6i-rtc and the one you actually are reading in your case): https://wiki.friendlyelec.com/wiki/images/0/08/Allwinner_H2+_Datasheet_V1.2.pdf Groetjes,

Hi I am looking for a low power, fanless, solution for a Debian server with a single large 3.5" SATA drive. I don't want to boot from the SATA so I guess I'd buy an eMMC module as well. Currently I have an Orange Pi4 LTS with a weird expansion board and a generic Mini PCIe to SATA, but it isn't stable enough. Given that the Rock 5C has platinum support and works with the Penta SATA hat I'm wondering if it might be more reliable? thanks

Quick update Since I need the hardware video decoder, I focused on vendor kernel (6.1) and KDE Observed on the following images that kernel versions higher than 6.1.75 (6.1.84 and 6.1.99) have issues with analog audio out (no output). The jack detection is functional, HDMI audio works, and it's not specific to the OS or KDE versions. Armbian_25.2.1_Orangepi5_noble_vendor_6.1.99_kde-neon_desktop.img Armbian_24.11.2_Orangepi5_noble_vendor_6.1.75_kde-neon-kisak_desktop.img Armbian_24.8.1_Orangepi5_jammy_vendor_6.1.75_kde-neon-kisak_desktop.img I compared the device tree from 2 installs, 25.2.1 (6.1.99) and 24.11.2 (before update, 6.1.75) and nothing jumps out. For the time being I rolled back the kernel to 6.1.75 on the 25.2.1 (updated to the latest, 25.2.3) image and put the DTS, headers and image packages on hold so I don't update them by mistake. I'll update this thread when I figure out more.