Hi @sicxnull @Nick A, as mentioned by @ventara X96Q vs 5.1 image of sicxnull has direct ethernet port and wireless working fine instead the Nick A 'Armbian-unofficial_25.05.0-trunk_X96q-ddr3-v5-1_bookworm_edge_6.12.11_xfce_desktop.img' has no ethernet or wifi working. I'm totally a newbie on these things, but thanks to the comunity I was able to use an mxq mini (S905X) working with Armbian and home assistant (of course i just used an image with armbian and after I load HA and tailscale. Now I would like to use the X96Q vs 5.1 for the other house. I know that the image of sicxnull works but I prefer to use Nick A. because armbian config as well most of the things are like the one on the other working tv box instead on the sicxnull image there is mate and a lot of commands or gui function are so different. I tried to understand what is different between the two images and github repository to be able to fix almost the ethernet port problem but I do not have enough acknowledge. My unix experience was with the AT&T unix system 5 and Solaris so very old OS and many years ago. Only now I'm coming back to unix world and I don't know anything about git, patch and so on. I read in a post that someone was able applying a patch but it is not clear to me how and where to apply patch, I have already installed Ubuntu in a Virtualbox and prepare everything to compile Armbian and tested that initial script start, ask me for board and other staff but after I stopped because I realized that I didn't understand what I'm doing. Probably with a standard sbc was easier. I promise that I will go ahead studying but it is hard and confused at the moment. If I can do something to help of course when I'm at home I will do it. Please, when you have free time give me some info on how to fix at least the direct ethernet port. armbianEnv.txt and boot.cmd looks same file. In both dtb folder there are same namefile.dtb include the 5.1 where armbianEnv point out but I don't know if they are same file in both distribution or are different? Wifi chip is the XR819 like I saw in other image with the v 5,1 Thanks for the great job you and the comunity are doing!

Sure, no worries. You will notice once its fixed. as this is not something you should adjust on the APT client side. You didn't and won't loose anything except current updating mechanism is broken.

Thanks Nick. In the meanwhile, would dtbo overlay, setting up CSI taken from radxa's github a733, work with kernel/u-boot of your image? Is there a way I can manually alter boot files to get this dtbo loaded? This is of course for the experiment - radxa's a733 image seems to still have a problem with ISP processor (or dtbo file affecting data formatting), as the resulting picture from the camera seems to be in a wrong color space (by the look, but I'm not an expert). I've reported the issue at https://forum.radxa.com/t/radxa-cubie-a7a-radxa-13m-214-camera/29717/7 for anyone interested.

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Igor, I understand the issue is complex, as you say, but for now I can only report that this didn't work. However, if I manage to resolve it, please let me know what we should do next, as I don't want to lose the work I've done on the image I downloaded. I also understand that these are BETA test images.