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While searching the forum and the documentation, I found the list of mirrors. On some of them, it's possible to find an older version of Armbian (23.11.1). I installed that version and it seems the drivers are working — I was able to use HDMI. This is the mirror I used: https://armbian.atomonetworks.com/archive/cubieboard/archive/

True. Also on most computers we have eth0 Not just eth Devices naming is a cosmetic thing from the outside / user perspection, while it has consistency issue from the inside and currently breaks initial (default netplan) configuration. Our job is not to tell user how to configure his network, but that network devices gets up at first boot. Now they do. Job done.

I am not sure if this line in the yaml file makes sense: all-wan-interfaces: # include interfaces that are renamed to 'wanX' by udev, e.g. nanopi-r1 There is usually only 1 WAN interface on routers. The print on my R6C is "WAN" and "LAN1". WAN is clearly the Rockchip GMAC. Actually I use it as 'LAN', as the only RJ45 cable. Only temporary I also use the PCI-E / 2.5GbE port while bridging with the GMAC, so I have a real 2.5GbE port as peer for my ROCK5B (just for speedtests). For the R5C, the Rockchip GMAC is not used. A rename from WAN to WAN1 I would refuse, but I do not use netplan.io, so not affected. I have the R6C now flashed with EDK2-UEFI and running Tumbleweed. 70-persistent-net.rules is empty, but Armbian 6.15.2-edge-rockchip64 kernel. I am not sure why the naming is still OK (wan and lan1, so my .nmconnection files keep working). With other kernel it gets end0 and enP3p49s0, I might use those eventually, ignoring what is printed on the case, depends how often I am going to unplug/plug network cables. For the R5C, the ports in the schematics are named "LAN1" and "LAN2", not sure how they map to what is printed on the case. They are each 1 lane of the PCIE3x2, that might be a problem for some kernel and/or bootloader.

Hi Loeriver, Where is the other end of your USB serial dongle connected to? Can you check there if the dongle had disappeard from the USB bus and re-appeared around the same time? In my "professional" life we have had workstations mysteriously reboot whenever we would power cycle the device hosting the USB to serial device. Even though you say it's not related, if this is still mysterious, best to check under each stone... Groetjes,

Thank you for this very helpful hint. I have installed auditd, I thought I have to systemctl (start, enable) auditd also to have it watching: but this seems to have been done by the install cmd already, as it is running. As I saw a burst of 7225 (!) sysrq messages in the log for 2025-06-18, between 08:55 and 09:50 again I am rather nervous about this topic. Since then no new messages again. Mysterious ... Greetings.

I just found one weird setting on R6S. Can you provide what is in this file: cat /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules Reference for what to do: https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/8325

From the picture - I can only guess that kernel package was somehow not upgraded properly as kernel image files are missing. Perhaps they were removed by accident or there was some disk / file system troubles involved. @Chris007 Try hints from here: https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Troubleshooting/

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@KrzyPacu try with hk1-box.dtso instead: make hk1-box.dtb cp release/hk1-box.dtb /boot/dtb/{YOUR_DTB_PATH}.dtb reboot hk1-box.dtso has the same configuration as hk1-x3.dtso but with pins 63/64 instead 64/65. Original OpenVFD specify "Vontar X3" in hk1-box, not hk1-x3. If that still doesn't work, you need to start from a known working configuration, either OpenVFD or original Android firmware dtb. Then you can work backwards to understand your configuration and create the proper dtso.

This is being worked on https://lore.kernel.org/linux-sunxi/20250526002924.2567843-1-james.hilliard1@gmail.com/T/#t There is a version of this that was ported over from a vendor kernel to Armbian. https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/6617

Somehow the SD-card contents and SSD contents could be mixed-up or partly double. I do not know what armbian-update does, but what is your plan or what do you want? Should Armbian run from SD-card or SSD?

Same Here. I am using Armbian on top of cubietruk as cups print server for years without issue. Now I have decided to see if I can use scanning function of my Samsung SCX-4600 3 in 1 machine. So, I logged in via ssh to my cubietruk running Armbian 23.02.0-trunk Lunar and I just did sudo apt-get update (And got some errors of missing repos), Despite that I have decided to give a try with sudo apt-get install sane Result was 5-6 missing packages Next obvious step was to start armbian-config and I went directly with "Update firmware and packages" Update was success and armbian-config asked for a reboot, which I did. Unfortunately the system was not able to boot. Luckily I have 23" HP Z-series monitor next to my trusty SBC and saw that on the console was lots of errors related to ETHERNET. Second and third reboot was pointles, so I have decided that It is time for fresh install for my cusps print- server. I have downloaded "Debian 12 (Bookworm)Minimal / IOT" from https://www.armbian.com/cubietruck/ and I have flashed it using dd. Next obvious step was to start the system. I saw U-Boot Logo and "Starting Kernel" Then the screen went BLACK. NOTHING. Now there is no way to configure this fresh install. Is there any workarounds?

Ach, OK. On Banana Pi M4 Zero (H618), the Ethernet PHY is integrated into the SoC, specifically within the AC200 block. There is no external Ethernet PHY chip like RTL8211F — the EMAC1 interface uses RMII and talks directly to the internal PHY. The issue I’m facing is likely due to incompatibility with kernel 6.x.x. I haven’t been able to get any overlay to work properly. However, with a kernel from the 5.4.x series, Ethernet works out-of-the-box on the same hardware. Any insights on proper overlay structure or required patches for AC200 support in newer kernels would be highly appreciated. Thanks for your help!

Okay, then you have to adjust the source to mitigate the issue. Also log excerpts are often useless. My random guess is that uboot is some old outdated version depending on python2 which has been deprecated years ago.

I fork this repository and make some file config for ugoos sk 1 chip s928x-k https://github.com/armbian?view_as=public

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Hi, yesterday i see a "armbian-update" message after login per ssh. I run this command and than my banana pi M1 won't boot. How can i repair it without formatting the SSD? Regards Christian

Ask where you got the source code from.

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@StanleyLIM I see it should run a variant of OpenWrt, see https://www.friendlyelec.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=69&product_id=290 My NanoPi-R6C got delivered with that FriendlyWrt pre-installed on eMMC. I bought the R6C as alternative for RPi5, nice metal passive cooling and M.2 M-key as well. FriendlyWrt uses a bunch of partitions to store various objects related to the boot stage and although it would be nice for a router, I wanted generic Linux as base. But R6C is using RK3588S as SoC, yours RK3568B2. Based on experience with my ROCK3A (RK3568), you could first check if both NICs are available on PCI-E, 'sudo lspci' should show. If available, 'sudo ip link' should also show the 2 NICs as network ports. Then it is a matter of high-level networking, not really specific to Armbian.

To anyone this may help, removing hc4 related packages and replacing them with c4 packages did the job. Only to discover that, for whatever reason, I actually had an HC4 board and convince myself that it was a C4 ... Anyway, the reverse process also worked as expected and my board is now running 25.051.1 happily, except for the samsung SSD not recognized at boot, and requires to be hot plugged just after the linux kernel starts in order to be seen by the system, as it is described in other threads.

To be more precise - parameters that are provided to that driver. If driver would be the problem, both NICs would be down. You need to find / create correct settings (device tree), based on schematics. This forum (search) can provide plenty of resources and hints how to do this. Someone from community (with the device so testing can be done) has to sacrifice afternoon or more to get this in operation.

why I self build Armbian and get this error when build armbian [🐳|🔨] /armbian/cache/sources/u-boot-worktree/u-boot-ugoos-sk1/khoahung_dev/drivers/misc/swap_case.c:56:(.text+0x3eb4): undefined reference to `ofnode_get_property' [🐳|🔨] collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status [🐳|🔨] make: *** [Makefile:1824: u-boot] Error 1 [🐳|💥] Error 2 occurred in main shell [ at /armbian/lib/functions/logging/runners.sh:223 run_host_command_logged_raw() --> lib/functions/logging/runners.sh:223 run_host_command_logged_long_running() --> lib/functions/logging/runners.sh:200 do_with_ccache_statistics() --> lib/functions/compilation/ccache.sh:39 compile_uboot_target() --> lib/functions/compilation/uboot.sh:245 loop_over_uboot_targets_and_do() --> lib/functions/compilation/uboot.sh:336 compile_uboot() --> lib/functions/compilation/uboot.sh:444 do_with_logging() --> lib/functions/logging/section-logging.sh:81 artifact_uboot_build_from_sources() --> lib/functions/artifacts/artifact-uboot.sh:177 artifact_build_from_sources() --> lib/functions/artifacts/artifacts-obtain.sh:34 obtain_complete_artifact() --> lib/functions/artifacts/artifacts-obtain.sh:280 build_artifact_for_image() --> lib/functions/artifacts/artifacts-obtain.sh:392 main_default_build_packages() --> lib/functions/main/build-packages.sh:102 full_build_packages_rootfs_and_image() --> lib/functions/main/default-build.sh:31 do_with_default_build() --> lib/functions/main/default-build.sh:42 cli_standard_build_run() --> lib/functions/cli/cli-build.sh:25 armbian_cli_run_command() --> lib/functions/cli/utils-cli.sh:136 cli_entrypoint() --> lib/functions/cli/entrypoint.sh:176 main() --> compile.sh:50 ] [🐳|💥] Cleaning up [ please wait for cleanups to finish ] [🐳|🌿] ANSI log file built; inspect it by running: [ less -RS output/logs/log-build-no-uuidgen-yet-29800-91055.log.ans ] [🐳|🌱] Share log manu

I'm brought the NanoPi-R5C to setup Internet-in-a-Box on for an Orphan school. I would like both the network port to work so that 1 part can be connected to the internet and the second can be connected to their local router. Base on the documentation, the 2 LAN port uses the same RTL8125BG. I assume driver shouldn't be the issue..

They have a repository on Mega and Baidu. https://wiki.sipeed.com/hardware/en/longan/h618/lpi3h/3_images.html