Beginners

3647 topics in this forum

1. How do I begin creating an image for my device?

   By Alexander Carlsson, December 16, 2023   

   • Work In Progress
   • 7 replies
   • 4.7k views
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   • PookyFan
   • March 30, 2024

2. Take control of your data with Nextcloud on Armbian! Set up your personal content collaboration platform for seamless file sharing and management.

3. How do I build an old debian stretch image ?

   By AaronNGray, November 16, 2022   

   • Banana Pi BPI-M3
   • 9 replies
   • 2.4k views
   • 
   • AaronNGray
   • November 20, 2022

4. How do I configure parameters for 3 wire serial?

   By ModMike, October 5, 2021
   • 5 replies
   • 3.5k views
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   • tparys
   • October 9, 2021

5. How do I disable SSH

   By JohnQPublic, July 10, 2017   

   • Other/unspec
   • 3 replies
   • 4.2k views
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   • zador.blood.stained
   • July 10, 2017

6. How do I display GUI in SPI LCD that only displays console?

   By mahaju, November 4, 2021
   • 1 reply
   • 4.4k views
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   • Werner
   • November 4, 2021

7. How do I display the nice SSH login info again?

   By snow, July 27, 2025   

   • Orange Pi 5
   • 4 replies
   • 901 views
   • 
   • Werner
   • July 28, 2025

8. How do I do this?

   By ajoeiam, February 25, 2020
   • 8 replies
   • 3.2k views
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   • Heisath
   • February 27, 2020

9. How do I install Armbian on my MXiii Android Box

   By MiniSkoot32, February 7, 2025   

   • Frequently asked question
   • 1 reply
   • 1k views
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   • Igor
   • February 7, 2025

10. How do I persist GPIO changes across reboots?

    By PHLAK, March 30, 2024   

    • ROCK Pi S
    • 1 reply
    • 1.4k views
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    • PHLAK
    • April 1, 2024

11. How do I reinstall the previous kernel and dtb as updating to 5.15.28 has bricked my SBC. :-(

    By Myron, March 14, 2022
    • 4 replies
    • 4.6k views
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    • Myron
    • March 16, 2022

12. How do I set up the time?

    By spottyrover, May 17, 2017
    • 5 replies
    • 21.6k views
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    • Technicavolous
    • December 4, 2018

13. How do I turn on networking using bash commands if I've accidentally disabled networking within the GUI shell?

    By Myron, September 21, 2021
    • 4 replies
    • 3.2k views
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    • Myron
    • September 23, 2021

14. How do I use the camera on tinkerboard? 1 2

    By Mentaluproar, July 6, 2017
    • 49 replies
    • 26.2k views
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    • chwe
    • September 11, 2018

15. How Do I Write Code to Have a GPIO Command Repeat At a Specific Frequency

    By Korben_Dallas, October 28, 2020
    • 10 replies
    • 3.9k views
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    • sgjava
    • October 31, 2020

16. How does Armbian handle booting on an ARM board?

    By Lumpy, June 18, 2023   

    • Other/unspec
    • 0 replies
    • 1k views
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    • Lumpy
    • June 18, 2023

17. How does Etcher differ from other burning Methods?

    By giri@nwrk.biz, June 4, 2017
    • 1 reply
    • 1.6k views
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    • Tido
    • June 4, 2017

18. How does the ARMBIAN versioning work?

    By odoll, February 13, 2019
    • 2 replies
    • 2.4k views
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    • Igor
    • February 13, 2019

19. How does this compare to XanMod for Performance features?

    By rickyn, July 6, 2022   

    • UEFI x86
    • 1 reply
    • 1.6k views
    • 
    • Werner
    • July 6, 2022

20. How downgrade openssl 3.0 to 1.1

    By lport3, April 25, 2023   

    • Zero Pi
    • 2 replies
    • 2.2k views
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    • lport3
    • April 26, 2023

21. How i can config DHCP Server to Client from armbian?

    By Shandy, August 16, 2020
    • 1 reply
    • 3.9k views
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    • Werner
    • August 16, 2020

22. How in Armbian Ubuntu Desktop to add a script to startup?

    By buratino, February 6, 2018   

    • Other/unspec
    • 19 replies
    • 16k views
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    • buratino
    • February 18, 2018

23. How install and use can4linux for bananian 16.04 on Bananapi M1

    By dommelekxd, January 11, 2021
    • 1 reply
    • 1.5k views
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    • Werner
    • January 11, 2021

24. How install driver wifi Realtek RTL8189FTV

    By yunus, December 19, 2021
    • 2 replies
    • 8.2k views
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    • surenz
    • January 28, 2022

25. How long should "compiling headers" take?

    By X-ian, March 20, 2018
    • 1 reply
    • 1.6k views
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    • Igor
    • March 20, 2018

26. how nand-sata-install works

    By peter12, August 4, 2018
    • 7 replies
    • 27.8k views
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    • peter12
    • August 16, 2018

27. How often should fstrim be run on an SD card to help lengthen its lifespan?

    By Myron, March 27, 2022
    • 5 replies
    • 3.8k views
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    • Myron
    • April 4, 2022

28. How to activate the graphical inteface on a Orange Pi Lite board

    By Tiziano, February 7, 2021
    • 2 replies
    • 1.9k views
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    • Werner
    • February 7, 2021

29. How to add a kernel module for USB DVB-T tuner?

    By Andrius, May 23, 2019
    • 6 replies
    • 5.3k views
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    • Igor
    • March 18, 2020

30. How to auto mount NAS after boot?

    By Nimbus78, March 17, 2018
    • 1 reply
    • 2.7k views
    • 
    • guidol
    • March 17, 2018

31. How to automatic root login in console ?

    By fayehoo, July 21, 2020
    • 2 replies
    • 6.1k views
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    • markcain
    • August 7, 2020

32. How to automaticall load a program when the gui has loaded

    By JohnQPublic, April 21, 2017
    • 0 replies
    • 2k views
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    • JohnQPublic
    • April 21, 2017

33. How to avoid a shell to take controle of a remote xterm (mouse / copy / past / etc ...)

    By destroyedlolo, October 24, 2020
    • 0 replies
    • 1.5k views
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    • destroyedlolo
    • October 24, 2020

34. How to backup the system image of my sdcard?

    By DavidJS, May 17, 2022   

    • Libre Renegade
    • 5 replies
    • 7.3k views
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    • Turbine
    • June 17, 2023

35. How to backup/transfer Armbian filesystem?

    By Hugo Cardozo, July 1, 2017
    • 7 replies
    • 7.2k views
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    • trohn_javolta
    • October 5, 2017

36. How to boot to khadas vim2 from an external ssd drive?

    By mk26, January 31, 2023   

    • Khadas Edge
    • 0 replies
    • 1k views
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    • mk26
    • January 31, 2023

37. How to bring up mcp2517fd device on OpenWRT?

    By Gediminas, January 15, 2021
    • 1 reply
    • 1.8k views
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    • guidol
    • January 15, 2021

38. How to build a package from source inside the armbian build system?

    By dmitgrib, July 5, 2024   

    • R&D
    • 11 replies
    • 4.8k views
    • 
    • going
    • July 8, 2024

39. How to build a specific release?

    By Stannieman, April 16, 2024   

    • Other/unspec
    • 6 replies
    • 2.6k views
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    • Stannieman
    • April 18, 2024

40. How to build and install mariadb connectorodbc from source?

    By mocart, October 8, 2020
    • 0 replies
    • 2.7k views
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    • mocart
    • October 8, 2020

41. How to build images using Github Actions?

    By jimg, July 10, 2024   

    • Other/unspec
    • 1 reply
    • 1.8k views
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    • MaxT
    • July 18, 2024

42. How to build latest ffmpeg with hardware acceleration

    By sgjava, August 4, 2021
    • 1 reply
    • 2.8k views
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    • Werner
    • August 4, 2021

43. how to burn armbian into my amlogic S805 board

    By baicai, September 10, 2019
    • 0 replies
    • 2k views
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    • baicai
    • September 10, 2019

44. How to change access to LEDs control file

    By Robert LabTeam, December 20, 2017   

    • Other/unspec
    • 1 reply
    • 1.9k views
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    • tkaiser
    • December 20, 2017

45. How to change default window manager (GNOME -> IceWM) ?

    By dr_toggleswitch, February 23, 2025   

    • Banana Pi BPI-M3
    • 1 reply
    • 1.4k views
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    • eselarm
    • February 23, 2025

46. How to change Hotspot IP?

    By MadMax, September 9, 2018
    • 1 reply
    • 4.8k views
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    • Igor
    • September 21, 2018

47. How to change i2s0 master clock

    By Christos, January 19, 2021
    • 0 replies
    • 1.3k views
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    • Christos
    • January 19, 2021

48. How to change kernel options for NFS in Armbian?

    By Guest, August 21, 2018
    • 1 reply
    • 1.7k views
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    • Igor
    • August 27, 2018

49. How to change language of Desktop

    By Vatsal Jethva, October 19, 2016   

    • Other/unspec
    • 1 reply
    • 15.2k views
    • 
    • gnasch
    • October 19, 2016

50. How to change PCIe Bus Scan Delay without building Kernel

    By KingKoro, April 1, 2022
    • 2 replies
    • 4.3k views
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    • KingKoro
    • April 2, 2022

51. How to change SD card content without access to working machine

    By Robert LabTeam, November 22, 2017   

    • Other/unspec
    • 0 replies
    • 1.4k views
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    • Robert LabTeam
    • November 22, 2017

52. how to clone microsd card data only

    By peter12, October 11, 2017
    • 6 replies
    • 3.9k views
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    • peter12
    • October 25, 2017

53. How to clone SO from eMMC to SD

    By carlos_rog, October 6, 2016   

    • Other/unspec
    • 1 reply
    • 3.3k views
    • 
    • Hugo Cardozo
    • October 19, 2016

54. How to compensate for CPU temp error on oPi0 LTS ?

    By DoubleHP, March 2, 2022
    • 1 reply
    • 1.2k views
    • 
    • Werner
    • March 3, 2022

55. how to compile a xenial application (visualino)

    By aishen, June 13, 2017   

    • Other/unspec
    • 1 reply
    • 1.5k views
    • 
    • aishen
    • June 13, 2017

56. How to compile driver

    By Robert LabTeam, July 13, 2017   

    • Other/unspec
    • 0 replies
    • 1.8k views
    • 
    • Robert LabTeam
    • July 13, 2017

57. How to compile dtb only?

    By wszgrcy, March 4, 2021
    • 2 replies
    • 2.1k views
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    • Igor
    • March 4, 2021

58. How to compile libgpiod?

    By sgjava, January 23, 2018   

    • Other/unspec
    • 10 replies
    • 15.1k views
    • 
    • abdul
    • May 31, 2020

59. How to compile Ubuntu Xenial for i12-tvbox?

    By iancilos, January 2, 2018
    • 1 reply
    • 1.5k views
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    • iancilos
    • January 19, 2018

60. How to completely disable log2ram?

    By broodwich82, December 11, 2018
    • 6 replies
    • 14k views
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    • broodwich82
    • February 7, 2019

61. How to configure a HC-05 bluetooth module in Armbian?

    By oggstar, November 4, 2016   

    • Other/unspec
    • 2 replies
    • 2.6k views
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    • oggstar
    • November 7, 2016

62. How to configure script.bin/custom.fex for SPI LCD?

    By rezaee, November 1, 2017
    • 4 replies
    • 6.2k views
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    • rezaee
    • November 1, 2017

63. How to configure wifi????

    By @mk020294, February 4, 2019
    • 1 reply
    • 1.9k views
    • 
    • Tido
    • February 4, 2019

64. How to connect I2C 20*4 LCD with Orange Pi Zero3?

    By bjan04, October 18, 2024   

    • Orange Pi Zero 3
    • 1 reply
    • 3.2k views
    • 
    • kris777
    • October 24, 2024

65. How to connect via SSH on first boot ?

    By lucas24007, May 4, 2019
    • 13 replies
    • 82.9k views
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    • ReefBum
    • August 24, 2019

66. How to continuously watch dmesg ?

    By eddywebs, October 1, 2017
    • 2 replies
    • 3k views
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    • MMGen
    • October 8, 2017

67. How to control scanner from armbian?

    By kamoba, March 5, 2018
    • 3 replies
    • 4.2k views
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    • rvlta
    • March 16, 2018

68. How to copy entire system and package on a new sd card

    By manuelvita96, April 3, 2018
    • 4 replies
    • 6.2k views
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    • akajain
    • June 28, 2018

69. How to create a Custom Animated Screensaver and Splashscreen on Linux Armbian (Jammy KDE Plasma)

    By rreiners, September 9, 2022   

    • Orange Pi 3 LTS
    • 0 replies
    • 1.4k views
    • 
    • rreiners
    • September 9, 2022

70. How to create a modern desktop with the lowest RAM consumption and test the GPU performance with Panfrost.

    By 2020, March 8, 2021
    • 1 reply
    • 2.8k views
    • 
    • 2020
    • March 9, 2021

71. How to create wireless access point and internet connection with NODEJS on Armbian board

    By nevo, April 21, 2020
    • 0 replies
    • 5.2k views
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    • nevo
    • April 21, 2020

72. How to debug boot issues on ODROID-HC2

    By g00d, October 17, 2021
    • 10 replies
    • 5.7k views
    • 
    • g00d
    • October 23, 2021

73. How to disable Autologin - Armbian Ubuntu KDE Orange Pi 5

    By matchaman, August 17, 2024   

    • Orange Pi 5
    • 0 replies
    • 1.3k views
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    • matchaman
    • August 17, 2024

74. How to disable autologin and gui

    By raid3868, May 12, 2016   

    • Other/unspec
    • 5 replies
    • 21.4k views
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    • Tido
    • August 23, 2017

75. How to disable autostart wpa_supplicant

    By Romber, May 14, 2020
    • 3 replies
    • 4.2k views
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    • xwiggen
    • October 11, 2020

76. How to disable ipv6

    By Zarif2000, August 29, 2023   

    • Orange Pi PC
    • 7 replies
    • 9.1k views
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    • Zarif2000
    • September 18, 2023

77. How to disable serial console?

    By Haxy, January 28, 2016
    • 2 replies
    • 3.5k views
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    • wildcat_paris
    • February 4, 2016

78. How to disable sleep mode using AXP209 PMU ?

    By J.M., March 7, 2021   

    • Other/unspec
    • 0 replies
    • 3.6k views
    • 
    • J.M.
    • March 7, 2021

79. how to disable swap

    By peter12, March 21, 2017
    • 2 replies
    • 10.6k views
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    • peter12
    • March 22, 2017

80. how to disable verbose ?

    By wwwlu, February 23, 2017   

    • Other/unspec
    • 6 replies
    • 4.3k views
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    • Igor
    • February 26, 2017

81. How to DISABLE Wifi/HDMI/USB for lower power comsumption? (on Orangepi PC Plus, H3)

    By dinobei, November 8, 2021
    • 1 reply
    • 1.9k views
    • 
    • Werner
    • November 8, 2021

82. How to display devnagari fonts?

    By shantanuo, November 30, 2020
    • 1 reply
    • 1.4k views
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    • Igor
    • November 30, 2020

83. How to display foreign fonts?

    By jackbox, November 19, 2016
    • 2 replies
    • 3.5k views
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    • jackbox
    • November 19, 2016

84. how to do interrupt drive GPIO input in python?

    By dony71, September 6, 2016   

    • Other/unspec
    • 3 replies
    • 5.1k views
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    • StaLeWaR
    • September 7, 2016

85. how to do wireless bridge ?

    By hatahata, April 21, 2016
    • 0 replies
    • 3.9k views
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    • hatahata
    • April 21, 2016

86. How to enable "apt build-dep"?

    By axzxc1236, January 30, 2019
    • 0 replies
    • 1.5k views
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    • axzxc1236
    • January 30, 2019

87. How to enable Desktop in Armbian Stretch Image ?

    By Carlos_Tico, May 10, 2018   

    • Other/unspec
    • 3 replies
    • 4.6k views
    • 
    • Igor
    • May 11, 2018

88. How to enable extra kernel modules when compiling from source?

    By VioletGiraffe, February 10, 2024   

    • Orange Pi Zero 3
    • 6 replies
    • 4.2k views
    • 
    • VioletGiraffe
    • February 12, 2024

89. How to enable i2c at u-boot stage

    By J.M., November 29, 2020
    • 13 replies
    • 15.4k views
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    • J.M.
    • December 31, 2020

90. How to enable I2S for DAC HAT Shield on Rock64?

    By Dan C, July 29, 2021
    • 4 replies
    • 3.8k views
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    • Dan C
    • May 30, 2022

91. How to enable I2S on a NanoPi NEO?

    By ygoe, October 3, 2021
    • 9 replies
    • 7k views
    • 
    • ygoe
    • October 8, 2021

92. How to enable kernel and firmware upgrades without armbian-config?

    By GerryK, February 6, 2023   

    • ODROID-XU4
    • 2 replies
    • 5.1k views
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    • markjay
    • March 26, 2023

93. How to enable MIPI DSI on R40 (A40i)?

    By Asimov, September 11, 2018
    • 0 replies
    • 2.1k views
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    • Asimov
    • September 11, 2018

94. How to enable Orange Pi5B onboard EMMC via armbian-config dtc editor??

    By Chi Min Wang, June 16, 2023   

    • Orange Pi 5B
    • 0 replies
    • 1.3k views
    • 
    • Chi Min Wang
    • June 16, 2023

95. How to enable Permanent hdparm setting in Jessie?

    By nemonein, March 6, 2016
    • 1 reply
    • 5k views
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    • sooperior
    • April 4, 2016

96. How to enable TV(RCA) output on Allwiner H5?

    By Alex64, December 17, 2017
    • 1 reply
    • 1.4k views
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    • jernej
    • December 18, 2017

97. How to enable UART? (ubuntu_lxde_desktop)

    By Fireworks, March 20, 2018
    • 1 reply
    • 1.5k views
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    • martinayotte
    • March 20, 2018

98. How to enable UART1 on Orangepi PC with Armbian Buster 19.11.6

    By Gustavo dos Anjos, April 1, 2022
    • 4 replies
    • 2.7k views
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    • skem5
    • November 23, 2022

99. How to enable uboot_debugging option via userpatches?

    By AlexCrux, January 6   

    • Other/unspec
    • 6 replies
    • 907 views
    • 
    • AlexCrux
    • January 14

100. How to enanble standart Debian network configurotion?

     By Yasen6275, June 2, 2021
     • 1 reply
     • 1.1k views
     • 
     • tparys
     • June 3, 2021

101. How to encrypt full sd card

     By seeing350, September 3, 2016   

     • Other/unspec
     • 0 replies
     • 2.3k views
     • 
     • seeing350
     • September 3, 2016