need help regarding wifi, i tried different server img and found no working wifi, should i just install armbian full or keep searching,,,,,plus is latest recommended or older versions......my device is 1gb ram with 8 rom, it may sound cheap, but i got this piece for free just tryin to repurpose it rather than getting a pi, i need it only for klipper, i got no lan ports left(lan ports are filled with different uses), only wifi, or should i just give up

Thank you so much for your help and explaining how it should work! I tried all the cores that you ordered - it only worked on this: #unnamed -a Linux orangepi5-plus 6.16.4-edge-rockchip64 #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Aug 28 14:34:51 UTC 2025 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux I put it like this: @apt install linux-image-edge-rockchip64 linux-headers-edge-rockchip64 The old cores were not suitable because the wifi card 0002:21:00.0 Network controller: MEDIATEK Corp. Device 7925 refuses to run on cores less than 6.12.X I bow low to you! cat /boot/armbianEnv.txt verbosity=1 bootlogo=true console=both overlay_prefix=rockchip-rk3588 fdtfile=rockchip/rk3588-orangepi-5-plus.dtb rootdev=UUID=e08e0355-09a7-41ad-a6db-fa17566a7f12 rootfstype=ext4 extraargs=cma=1G usbstoragequirks=0x2537:0x1066:u,0x2537:0x1068:u With the extraargs=cma=1G parameter, videos in the browser somehow load faster.

Switch to edge or vendor kernel (latter either with panthor overlay or proprietary mali blobs). current is a bad choice for desktop usage.

Not planned but should be possible. A good start would be to copy the mentioend 2f and extract the device tree from official image and add it to vendor kernel source. If you're lucky that's all what's needed to get it to work.

moved to offtopic. not using Armbian. If you need support with that image, ask at the place where you downloaded from.