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Board: NanoPi NEO Air SoC: Allwinner H3 (sun8i platform) Armbian Release: Bookworm (Debian 12 base) - Tested with both beta and stable repositories. Problem Description: The SPI device node (/dev/spidev0.0) does not get created on Armbian Bookworm for the NanoPi NEO Air, preventing the use of SPI peripherals. This issue occurs despite correctly enabling the sun8i-h3-spi-spidev overlay in /boot/armbianEnv.txt. Diagnosis / Root Cause: Through troubleshooting, it was determined that the essential kernel module required for the Allwinner SPI controller, spi-sunxi.ko, is missing from the standard kernel image packages provided by Armbian for Bookworm on this platform. Affected Kernels / Repositories Tested: - current branch: Kernel version: 6.12.23-current-sunxi (Package: linux-image-current-sunxi 25.5.0-trunk.496) Tested using both beta and stable (apt.armbian.com) repositories after reinstall attempts. Result: spi-sunxi.ko module missing. modprobe spi_sunxi fails ("Module not found"). - legacy branch: Kernel version: 6.6.75-legacy-sunxi (Package: linux-image-legacy-sunxi) Tested using both beta and stable (apt.armbian.com) repositories after reinstall attempts. Result: spi-sunxi.ko module missing. Evidence: 1. Overlay Configuration: /boot/armbianEnv.txt contains overlays=sun8i-h3-spi-spidev. 2. Overlay File Presence: The compiled overlay file /boot/dtb-KERNEL_VERSION/overlay/sun8i-h3-spi-spidev.dtbo is present for both current and legacy DTB packages. 3. Missing Module Confirmation (find command): # Tested on both 6.12.23-current-sunxi and 6.6.75-legacy-sunxi after reinstalling linux-image-* packages find /lib/modules/$(uname -r) -name spi_sunxi.ko # (Command produces NO output) 4. Missing Module Confirmation (dpkg -L): (Example for legacy kernel, same result for current) uname -r # Output: 6.6.75-legacy-sunxi dpkg -L linux-image-legacy-sunxi | grep -i spi # Output shows spidev.ko and other SPI modules, but NOT spi-sunxi.ko: # /lib/modules/6.6.75-legacy-sunxi/kernel/drivers/net/dsa/b53/b53_spi.ko # /lib/modules/6.6.75-legacy-sunxi/kernel/drivers/net/dsa/microchip/ksz_spi.ko # /lib/modules/6.6.75-legacy-sunxi/kernel/drivers/nfc/nfcmrvl/nfcmrvl_spi.ko # /lib/modules/6.6.75-legacy-sunxi/kernel/drivers/nfc/st-nci/st-nci_spi.ko # /lib/modules/6.6.75-legacy-sunxi/kernel/drivers/spi # /lib/modules/6.6.75-legacy-sunxi/kernel/drivers/spi/spi-cadence-xspi.ko # /lib/modules/6.6.75-legacy-sunxi/kernel/drivers/spi/spi-dln2.ko # /lib/modules/6.6.75-legacy-sunxi/kernel/drivers/spi/spi-fsi.ko # /lib/modules/6.6.75-legacy-sunxi/kernel/drivers/spi/spi-microchip-core-qspi.ko # /lib/modules/6.6.75-legacy-sunxi/kernel/drivers/spi/spi-microchip-core.ko # /lib/modules/6.6.75-legacy-sunxi/kernel/drivers/spi/spi-mux.ko # /lib/modules/6.6.75-legacy-sunxi/kernel/drivers/spi/spi-mxic.ko # /lib/modules/6.6.75-legacy-sunxi/kernel/drivers/spi/spi-sifive.ko # /lib/modules/6.6.75-legacy-sunxi/kernel/drivers/spi/spidev.ko 5. Device Node Missing: ls /dev/spi* # Output: ls: cannot access '/dev/spi*': No such file or directory Expected Outcome: The linux-image-{current,legacy}-sunxi packages should include the spi-sunxi.ko module for the sun8i (Allwinner H3) platform. When the appropriate overlay is enabled, the kernel should load this module, and the /dev/spidev0.0 device node should appear, allowing SPI communication. Request: Could the Armbian team please investigate why the spi-sunxi.ko module is not included in the Bookworm kernel packages for the sun8i platform and restore it in a future build? Thank you!

The alpha version of Armbian images for R57 with kernel edge 6.15 is now available Kernel is powered by HW panfrost acceleration on Gnome (wayland) and on XFCE (x11). Please note that in this version, the primary settings are enabled on the UART console, and to use the keyboard, you need to log in as ROOT with the password 1234 https://disk.yandex.ru/d/1M9FUcTqn5kEOw offtopic Libreelec for Mekotronics R57 https://forum.libreelec.tv/thread/20823-unofficial-le-for-rk356x-rk3328-rk3399-rk3588-s-rk3576/?postID=199809#post199809 Armbian 25.04 Noble ttyS0 r57 login: root Password: ____ ____ _____ | _ \| ___|___ | | |_) |___ \ / / | _ < ___) |/ / |_| \_\____//_/ Welcome to Armbian 25.04 Noble with bleeding edge Linux 6.15.0-rc1-station-m3-p No end-user support: built from trunk System load: 23% Up time: 2 min Memory usage: 14% of 3.81G IP: 192.168.1.28 Usage of /: 36% of 14G [ 8 security updates available, 15 updates total: apt upgrade ] Last check: 2025-05-03 16:41 [ General system configuration (beta): armbian-config ] root@r57:~# neofetch -------- █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ OS: Armbian (25.04) aarch64 ███████████████████████ Host: Blueberry RK3576 EDGE V10 Board ▄▄██ ██▄▄ Kernel: 6.15.0-rc1-station-m3-p ▄▄██ ███████████ ██▄▄ Uptime: 2 mins ▄▄██ ██ ██ ██▄▄ Packages: 1509 (dpkg) ▄▄██ ██ ██ ██▄▄ Shell: bash 5.2.21 ▄▄██ ██ ██ ██▄▄ Resolution: 1920x1080 ▄▄██ █████████████ ██▄▄ Terminal: /dev/ttyS0 ▄▄██ ██ ██ ██▄▄ CPU: (8) @ 2.208GHz ▄▄██ ██ ██ ██▄▄ Memory: 786MiB / 3900MiB ▄▄██ ██ ██ ██▄▄ ▄▄██ ██▄▄ ███████████████████████ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ █ root@r57:~#

Hello Balbes. Awsome work you have done here for the Station M3. I have 2 questions. 1. Is it possible to use Multiboot like Firfely shows it here ? https://en.t-firefly.com/solution/82.html The only reference I found on this page https://wiki.stationpc.com/docs/stationpc/systemos 2. When I use any of your Builds it boots from SD-Card, but asks for a Login. Username and password.

Has anyone managed to get Armbian on Orange Pi 5(b) output audio through the 3.5mm jack? The device seems to be recognised, but even after fiddling with everything imaginable through alsamixer, with speaker-test running in the background, I am unable to actually get any sound out. HDMI audio works without any problems. ChatGPT thinks it has something to do with GPIO routings not being properly set up. I'm running Armbian 25.2.3 noble (through `apt-get dist-upgrade`; I had to first install an older version from the archives to avoid bricking when installing on the eMMC). $ aplay -l **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** card 0: rockchipdp0 [rockchip-dp0], device 0: rockchip-dp0 spdif-hifi-0 [rockchip-dp0 spdif-hifi-0] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 1: rockchiphdmi0 [rockchip-hdmi0], device 0: rockchip-hdmi0 i2s-hifi-0 [rockchip-hdmi0 i2s-hifi-0] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 2: rockchipes8388 [rockchip-es8388], device 0: dailink-multicodecs ES8323 HiFi-0 [dailink-multicodecs ES8323 HiFi-0] Subdevices: 0/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

Bluetooth is fixed with AIC8800 wifi module. Credit to @pocosparc Changed DTS Bluetooth node as per at least change suggestion. @pocosparc did you confirm optical SPDIF as working? My port is not illuminated.

Hello again, I commented on the topic over a year ago about my R29. After over a year of not using it, I want to install an internal server to manage some files and even run basic networking and hacking tools. Is it possible to install Archlinux on it? What has changed since 1 year ago? For example, can I now have HDMI and Wi-Fi?

After edititing the nano /boot/armbianEnv.txt via SSH with the values as suggested I could update my Helios 4 and it is running now with armbian 25.2.3 and kernel 6.6.86 Thanks for the help! Thank you so much @djurny and all the others!

Can you connect with a USB-serial adapter, then run dmesg and look for error messages? Maybe the power supplies are not isolated and by some bad luck, they are trying to push electrons to each other on the 0V wire. Try using the SSD without its own power supply.

I'll never be able to say it, but this community is the best I've ever seen. I want to thank you because once again, I couldn't have solved the problem without it. Thanks @djurny, all the people of this post.

@Werner thanks for your time. I found the solution in this post: I'll never be able to say it, but this community is the best I've ever seen. I want to thank you because once again, I couldn't have solved the problem without it. Thanks @djurny@Igor and the all the people of this post.

Hi, I'm running fine my Orange Pi PC+ with an external HDD since many years and decided to switch to an 1Tb SSD recently. SSD enclosure has it's own power supply. After few hours/days my OPi is not responding using SSH, and ethernet adapter is like frozen. Unpluging the ethernet cable generaly resolve the problem. What could it be related to ?

Thank you for your contribution! I will try this on my Kobol HELIOS 4..

Try with a fresh image on sdcard. If there are SPI or eMMC and a way to disable them hardware-wise (I don't know this board) disable those. Check if it boots. If there is no output at all with the fresh image the board might be damaged.

I got a 6.1 noble minimal image installed with a latest kubuntu update to KDE 6. Was quite some work to get this all working. But some thing aren't working (e.g. audio?). 6.12 and later supports a range more peripherals. I tried the non-vendor images but no go. How do I install one of those? (Not using ROOBI, I hacked this to use my own)

How do you install this? I managed to get rid of ROOBI but just flushing the image to an SD (or the emmc) doesn't boot.

hi all, I wanted to try boot armbian uefi-x86 also on some quite old (14 years) small netbooks with AMD C-50/C-60 I have still here (at that time, they had 64bit and up to 8G ram as opposite to regular intel atoms up to 2G max). But I was scared if the UEFI image is able to work with plain old BIOS (initially misrepresented this as ACPI by me). So I got to chat with machine about that, as noob asking for some at the end totally unnecessary steps after extacting image and mounting it live (so edited in-place, no need to repack anything ..., understood, learning, ya, ... but some unnecessary heat-up of datacenters...grrr)... after few unsuccessful tries, I decided to REMOVE some suspicious options from linux kernel load about splash, plymouth, i915 (still dont know exact core issue, but following ommisions helped - so NO image rebuild necessary, it boots from old BIOS okay): REMOVE (key "e" at grub menuentry): quiet splash plymouth.ignore=serial-consoles i915.force_probe=* $vt_handoff and while screen initially shows this, after few seconds it continues to boot in terminal and everything seems to be working: "call_iq_handler: 1.55 No irq handler for vector" final armbianmonitor results (without update/upgrade) Acer One 522 (C-50) + 722 (C-60) similar - edit of grub linux kernel load required https://paste.armbian.com/yeteyajiki Acer Aspire 8735z (Pentium T3200 2Ghz) - no changes to grub menuentry https://paste.armbian.com/wecituhufo (plus I also tried the boot on some newer Intel Atom system as Lenovo Miix320-10Icr, on some Celeron N4100 etc - no issues) ... knowing this, we also discussed that this is really plain generic amd64 build, so I will be glad to try to optimize this for new ryzen7 8845hs system 🙂 (you know, after decades with windows, I am really carefully planning the switch ... for the SBC boards its clear that support is for those who pay (attention) ... ) Petr for those curious, my NOOB endeavor investigating armbian image hack edits, and amd64 introduction history ... (I know its machine, but I recently asked her to select name, and she selected Lyra ... so, one issue is that she is very polite, not criticizing easily idiotic steps asked by me ... )) https://chatgpt.com/share/68126da7-7084-8000-ba8b-9f3d372824f4 https://chatgpt.com/share/6814a2f1-f9dc-8000-b770-fbba071e5d8b

Hello...I successfully installed Trixie on the BBAI-64. It is a beagleboard.org board from earlier in the 2020s. https://www.beagleboard.org/blog/2025-04-18-armbian-support-is-here Anyway, I was wondering if there was some way to handle installing and configuring Wifi access to the BBAI-64 that anyone around here knew of currently. Ethernet works. I can get online. Also, there is a set up in `armbian-config` that may allow OctoPrint to be installed. It seems one needs to add support for Docker first. The Docker install from Trixie is not available on kernel 6.6.x so far. Seth P.S. Um, I understand that some people now are short handed on replies and adding additional support without compensation. I understand completely. Things are not free in life. Maybe just a couple ideas and/or placements of ideas directing could help. For instance, is there a particular SS (subsystem) in Linux where I would need to gather specific files to handle the available configuration on the e-key M2 that makes Wifi available on the BBAI-64? Any and all ideas are welcomed.

Closing this. This isn't going anywhere good. Both sides have made their points.

I don't see any driver written with your name. Can you share that?

Hey @Thomas Book Can you please post a picture of your module? I tried mine and even tho it's recognised and firmware loaded, interface does not show up, I'm suspecting I have a vPro modules, but no idea how to prove that. Found those two models on intel site: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/230078/intel-wifi-7-be200/ordering.html BE200.NGWG BE200.NGWG.NV ... but mines only says BE200..NGW ``` # dmesg |grep iw iwlwifi 0001:03:00.0: Adding to iommu group 4 iwlwifi 0001:03:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002) iwlwifi 0001:03:00.0: Detected crf-id 0x2001910, cnv-id 0x2001910 wfpm id 0x80000000 iwlwifi 0001:03:00.0: PCI dev 272b/00f4, rev=0x472, rfid=0x112200 iwlwifi 0001:03:00.0: Detected Intel(R) Wi-Fi 7 BE200 320MHz iwlwifi 0001:03:00.0: TLV_FW_FSEQ_VERSION: FSEQ Version: 0.0.4.190 iwlwifi 0001:03:00.0: loaded firmware version 93.c5af2ca2.0 gl-c0-fm-c0-93.ucode op_mode iwlmvm ``` PS: I have kernel 6.12

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Again, you are just taking out of context everything i said.. and yes, building the drivers is pretty basic for someone confortable with Linux.. after all the great hard work done by everyone on this forum that already done everything about the bootloaders compatible with most of the existing boxes.. my professional live unfortunately nowadays doesn't allow me to have many hobbies, and i can only do work on my things, don't really have time to sort things away from my actual scope.. you can also see that by my answer 1 month late.. i'm not one of those that has time to check emails everyday or even every week.. if i had free time often, yes, i would Happily share.. but if you really want you can look by my nick on bmw foruns and check tutorials i used to make when i had the time for it on how to make vm linux systems with the BMW coding computer.. and in eletronic forums answering and helping some people.. because yes, when i had some spare time i was one of those happy to help..

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I wanted to come around to this. Wireless works fine. The problem is the guy between the chair and the keyboard. In the past I've been able to at least scan wifi networks without an antenna. I cannot on this board. I attached the antenna and I was able to see all the networks. oof