I realized there was a fix within the kernel which sounded like it would help: https://marc.info/?l=linux-usb&m=176887718125147 it seems to be iincorporated into the LTS kernel by now so I used armbian build to get a 6.18.22 kernel. unfortunately that didn't help. Even worse: after a while the system freezes completely am I really the only one hitting this problem?

use balena etcher or rufus, would work just fine! also you can use Hqnicolas have provided earlier, use a USB to TTL converter. works great if nothing works

@Farhan Ishraq yeah sure! here you go: https://github.com/YuzukiHD/YuzukiChameleon although this image is a bit older, it's currently running debian bullseye i guess. if you need armbian, i would suggest the method that @Sadiq Ahmed applied

Hello, I have installed the Armbian 26.2 minimal IOT image based on Debian 13 Trixie - with the 6.18.x kernel - and I noticed the USB2 port (the single, vertical port next to the Ethernet port) is not working. Is this a limitation of the mainstream kernel (6.18.x) - i.e. does this work only with the vendor kernel (6.1.x) ? NB: I upgraded to 6.19 using the 'edge' kernel, but I'm seeing the same behavior. Here's the armbianmonitor outpur - https://paste.armbian.com/raw/udefojuxuk

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