nottledim Posted February 5, 2017 Share Posted February 5, 2017 A touch of bravery got me to install mainline on my Nanopi Neo using the orangepi one dtb. It worked OK. Today I updated the system and got a nice new kernel 4.9.4 but also had bit of bother in the form of the absence of network devices. It seems there is an issue with the new sun8i-h3-nanopineo.dtb as reverting back to the orangepi one restores that capability. It's all a bit mysterious to me but I do notice that the alias "ethernet0" is absent from the nanopi dts and the configuration of ethernet further down seems quite different. I'd be quite interested in trying a new version of the dtb if someone's ahead of me with this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nottledim Posted February 6, 2017 Author Share Posted February 6, 2017 I got the latest sun8i-h3-nanopineo.dts from kernel.org 4.8.9 and it's different but it still has the same problem - no ethernet (eth0) device. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted February 6, 2017 Share Posted February 6, 2017 H3 is not yet fully mainlined. We don't use main branch, but development (as stated at download page: Images were built from developement branch.). Nanopi neo from download section has working Ethernet. Tested. BTW: update will fail to bring Ethernet ATM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nottledim Posted February 8, 2017 Author Share Posted February 8, 2017 > BTW: update will fail to bring Ethernet ATM. I think that's what's happened. Curiously DietPi uses what seems to be the same kernel (4.9.4), same config etc but network works. Also on DietPi all cpus are seen whereas on armbian dev only one is seen. I wonder what's different? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Igor Posted February 8, 2017 Share Posted February 8, 2017 I wonder what's different? If you are doing upgrade, it can't work properly. It was clarified in another post - since you also need more recent boot script and DTB which is in repository doesn't have Ethernet enabled. It's only present in download image where you will have network + all cores and further upgrades will work. Remember, it's still developing kernel, which need further testing - there are bugs and limitations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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