However above that is a whole slew of failures "network unreachable" and ip a or ip r both show the help screen. Let me run armbian-config again, from here. Did, network didn't survive a reboot. Went to its own monitor and reran armbian-config, no net settings. reset them again. ping yahoo.com, worked. Ran sudo apt update, got 181 pkgs to update, did sudo apt upgrade -y & watched it for half an hour. Completed this time. rebooted, network survived. So I should be able to restore it from its own backups once I get it to mount the /raid6. Found it had a /raid6 dir for a mount point snooped thru /dev/disk/ to the by-id, found the file with myraid in its name, mounted it, ran df to see a normal report, then it suspended. Never did that before. Ever. Now, whats the magic potion that un-suspends it?, it went into suspension while I was logged in from here, and nothing I can do to the keyboard or mouse, local or remote wakes it up again. Power draw is down to about 7 watts. I need to totally disable that, how do it?

Using Network-manager as a slave to armbian-config, no root pw. sudo for everything. Let me see if I can login from "ssh -X gene@amanda" using the ip in my hosts file. Yes, so I can copy/paste: This is the final screen of a "sudo apt update" commend. Had to nuke my local keys first. E: The repository 'http://ports.ubuntu.com noble Release' no longer has a Release file. N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default. N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details. E: The repository 'http://ports.ubuntu.com noble-security Release' no longer has a Release file. N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default. N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details. E: The repository 'http://ports.ubuntu.com noble-updates Release' no longer has a Release file. N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default. N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details. E: The repository 'http://ports.ubuntu.com noble-backports Release' no longer has a Release file. N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default. N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details. E: The repository 'https://apt.armbian.com noble Release' no longer has a Release file. N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default. N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details. E: The repository 'https://github.armbian.com/configng stable Release' no longer has a Release file. N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default. N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details. Same thing I'm seeing on its own monitor.

must i connect it to pc?

I missed the fact that you have an orange pi zero 2w... I think there's a success experience with that orange pi in this thread or in this Allwinner section. Please share if you have success

I downloaded and extracted that image and now run it as container on my ROCK5B. Just wiping the root password first and then only configure root and then: root@bananapim5:~# apt update Get:1 https://github.armbian.com/configng stable InRelease [5,467 B] Hit:2 http://ports.ubuntu.com noble InRelease Get:3 http://ports.ubuntu.com noble-security InRelease [126 kB] Get:4 https://github.armbian.com/configng stable/main arm64 Packages [434 B] Get:6 http://ports.ubuntu.com noble-updates InRelease [126 kB] Get:7 http://ports.ubuntu.com noble-backports InRelease [126 kB] Get:5 https://fi.mirror.armbian.de/apt noble InRelease [39.2 kB] Get:8 http://ports.ubuntu.com noble-security/main arm64 Packages [1,882 kB] Get:9 https://fi.mirror.armbian.de/apt noble/main all Packages [9,047 B] Get:10 https://fi.mirror.armbian.de/apt noble/main arm64 Packages [769 kB] Get:11 http://ports.ubuntu.com noble-security arm64 Contents (deb) [167 MB] Get:12 https://fi.mirror.armbian.de/apt noble/noble-utils arm64 Packages [26.3 kB] Get:13 https://fi.mirror.armbian.de/apt noble/noble-utils all Packages [5,408 B] Get:14 https://fi.mirror.armbian.de/apt noble/noble-desktop arm64 Packages [16.7 kB] Get:15 https://fi.mirror.armbian.de/apt noble/noble-desktop all Packages [4,984 B] Get:16 http://ports.ubuntu.com noble-security/restricted arm64 Packages [4,059 kB] Get:17 http://ports.ubuntu.com noble-security/universe arm64 Packages [1,193 kB] Get:18 http://ports.ubuntu.com noble-security/multiverse arm64 Packages [38.3 kB] Get:19 http://ports.ubuntu.com noble-updates/main arm64 Packages [2,235 kB] Get:20 http://ports.ubuntu.com noble-updates arm64 Contents (deb) [175 MB] Get:21 http://ports.ubuntu.com noble-updates/restricted arm64 Packages [4,224 kB] Get:22 http://ports.ubuntu.com noble-updates/universe arm64 Packages [1,899 kB] Get:23 http://ports.ubuntu.com noble-updates/multiverse arm64 Packages [38.0 kB] Get:24 http://ports.ubuntu.com noble-backports/main arm64 Packages [49.4 kB] Get:25 http://ports.ubuntu.com noble-backports arm64 Contents (deb) [782 kB] Get:26 http://ports.ubuntu.com noble-backports/universe arm64 Packages [34.7 kB] Fetched 360 MB in 42s (8,497 kB/s) Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done 304 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them. So that seems OK. Now running apt full-upgrade -y and that works fine so far. Note that this does use the networking and kernel of the host, but a fast way to test userspace. no release file might have to do with something wrong in armbian repo mirrors. I am in the EU, might be different internet paths/routes/mirrors for you. I am actually unsure how this all works, so might also be something in the network setup in the noble image itself. Ubuntu uses netplan.io, that I could not get working with comples bridges and VLANs I use on ARM64 computers, so I avoid Ubunto for that and also in Armbian Debian images, I purged netplan.io and made sure I got NetworkManager working. And openresolve as DNS. You say you set up networking, I am not sure what that means. I mostly set a fixed IP address for a MAC address of the computer, then leave rest automatic as possible. You can setup more dedicated named/permanent profile with nmtui of course as well.