the software i used to flash the sd card, was balenaEtcher and Rufus, i did not validate the checksum both the SHA ASC are 404 file not found.

Are you saying you are missing further steps in between setting root passwd and being logged in?

How did you flash the Armbian image? Did you validate the checksum for the image? What software did you use for flashing the image?

I don't even have an HDMI device connected. Running it headless. And when you say Debian 13, are you describing a way to convert Armbian to Debian in-place? Because honestly, with its inability to set time and missing i2c buss, I've lost confidence in Armbian. But I don't understand the effect of your commands. Is this converting Armbian to Debian 13? Is there any way to just build Debian 13 on the SD card or internal EMMC?

Ok, will try wiFi by doing that. I posted more testing in the thread of my device.