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    Banana Pi R2

    in Off-topic

    Posted

    24 minutes ago, y52 said:

    Is there any other alternative vendor building his board around the MediaTek MT7623N SoC ?

     

    https://wikidevi.com/wiki/MediaTek

    There is one router board based on similar (but I guess different enough) chip, but it's also not very well supported.
     

    There are (only) few ARM based NAS / router boards which are good enough to consider dealing with: Clearfog pro, base and upcoming Espressobin. Serious (open source oriented) vendors would stay away from Mediatek chips in first place.

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    Improve 'Support over Forum' situation

    in Off-topic

    Posted

    I changed a part of structure which looks more or less clear, but let's do some double checking before we move everything here and there :)

     

    - tutorials which are currently everywhere, mostly under Technical support. There could be also "Tutorials" pinned topics with pinned tutorials, like Tony suggested.

    - each subforum in here should have "Readme first - FAQ" tagged with "IMPORTANT" with most common questions -> link to answered topics as Thomas proposed. I added hidden post into Allwinner A20 section as example - unhide when done. You should have the power to do so.

     

    It is also possible to make use of "Forum rules". Currently this is the text: Use search before starting new topic - add questions to existing topics - support on private messaging is ignored - humans are not error free, be polite.

     

    - what to do with "Preview of this and that" board from Free? I would suggest moving SD card performance, storage benchmark and similar at least to "Technical support / common" section?

    - current "Project and services" should be split into other forums and section removed?

    - we have "Allwinner A64/H5", but we don't support. Should remain simply under Development?

    - Build tasks? Merge / remove?

    - community projects: 3rd party, deprecated and exotics boards, ... this part is still a bit confusing to me.

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    I want to help on the project. I really do.

    in Beginners

    Posted

    Armbian is community driven open source project. To keep it relevant and up to date it needs maintenance round the clock. This work is done by a small amateur contributor force which was under-powered since early days and it still is. For most basic tasks!

    Any help is more then welcome.

     

     

    General tips:
     

    • plan to do things you understand. 
    • expect little to no guidance.
    • focus on common needs and forget what is important only to you.
    • start small.


    If you still don't know how to start, attach your questions below in the topic.

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    Partial bugfix update

    in Advanced users - Development

    Posted

    4 hours ago, zador.blood.stained said:

    Since wireless now works for me on mvebu-next I reverted your last commit for now and added the patch to sunxi-next and mvebu-next. More tests needed (obviously).


    It works for me to, cubox-next, ath10 and brcmfmac.

     

    @tonymac32
    Reboot reboots.

    http://sprunge.us/CaOj

    U-boot on eMMC:

    U-Boot SPL 2017.05-rc3-armbian (May 04 2017 - 15:10:29)
    Returning to boot ROM...

    U-Boot 2017.05-rc3-armbian (May 04 2017 - 15:10:29 +0200)

     

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    Partial bugfix update

    in Advanced users - Development

    Posted

    11 minutes ago, zador.blood.stained said:

    Client or AP? Can it be easily reproduced on any other boards (sunxi-next, sun8i-dev branches) so I could try to capture a crash log?

     

    Client, ath10, crashed also on Clearfog with 4.11. Will do more test and provide logs ... currently out of office.

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    Partial bugfix update

    in Advanced users - Development

    Posted

    9 hours ago, zador.blood.stained said:

    Did you mean this? https://forum.armbian.com/index.php?/topic/4538-cubieboard-2-a20-lxc-issue-after-5314115-upgrade/


    Well, also I could reproduce on Hummingboard when trying to connect wireless - it instantly crashed on 4.11.5 while working fine on 4.9.33 ... 

     

    9 hours ago, tkaiser said:

    but for whatever reasons Armbian tries to introduce update drama every few months. Why exactly?

     

    Of course there is risk when upgrading, especially u-boot, because worse case boot breaks ... but kernel upgrades are more flexible since it "only" breaks some part of functionality at worse. Like in this example. Perhaps this upgrade procedure should be divided and provide more selective relevant upgrades. That should limit down problems. 

     

    9 hours ago, zador.blood.stained said:

    I believe we have an option now


    Also possible to apply it to images by default and we gain stability - user must act to get latest updates. Like on deprecated boards.

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    Orange PI Win+ - apt upgrade issue

    in Allwinner sunxi

    Posted

    6 hours ago, t-bob said:

    something like:

       wifi - working since 1/6/2017

       usb - working since 1/4/2017

       bluetooth - NOT working. No ETA. Developer assigned

       hdmi - Not working. No ETA. See https://linux-sunxi.org/blahblah for more information

       gpio - not working. no eta. no developer assigned

       12c - not working. no eta. no developer assigned


    This job is for anyone with minimal inside knowledge. Related or unrelated to Armbian.

     

    Again - "no support" means we will not provide any information regarding state and problems of moving experimental things. It's expensive and provide negative results. Double negative from our perspective.

     

    When things are good enough for bare server usage, similar kind of report is found at download page - this and that is not working, ... Currently there are too much problems and no one out of five active developers would like to have yet another burden. We don't want that experimental images are used by end users in first place. Some even use those unfinished work in production and are saying that we are losers and idiots, because upgrade break their wonderfully working system. Yes it happens. It happens way to often and there is no compensation. They don't support as in any way but expect full support from us.

     

    We came to conclusion that we will not share any information (for end users) regarding WIP work. Developers can find and acquire information from Github commits, from ours an upstream. Everything relevant is written there, but to write a summary ... anyone can.

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    Improve 'Support over Forum' situation

    in Off-topic

    Posted

    Recent hot debates sparked many ideas, but no need to rush. Rome was not built in a day :)

     

    Rearrangement outdated forum structure should also improve the situation - at least we have to get the best out of forum, even it has limitations, which were exposed and I am aware of it. 


    Few concrete ideas for reshaping the structure - what if we clearly divide support forum into stand alone section - we isolate section "Technical support" only for: "Allwinner A10/A20   Allwinner H2/H3   Allwinner A64/H5   Amlogic   Freescale i.MX6x  Other boards"

    Than we have section, which does not live very much and should also be redesigned: 

    Projects and services

    Reviews 

    Support of deprecated boards / old board support 

    3rd party armbian builds, etc.

     

    Development

    I propose to merge / remove Armbian build framework and Armbian Tasks into Development.


    Free / rearrange
    Move everything up to corresponding forums, what can be moved. This part was never meant for technical stuff but more for casual stuff like: "I have a new cat - what do you think?" stuff :)

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    Orange Pi Lite SSH Problems

    in Allwinner sunxi

    Posted

    On 20. 6. 2017 at 9:38 AM, 8BALL_SA said:

    Using the network manager, if I disable and then enable the wifi then everything works for a while.


    It looks like a network-manager issue. I could reproduce ... but it only failing when trying to connect from windows machine :) while working fine when connecting from Linux.

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    Authentication token manipulation error

    in SD card and PSU issues

    Posted

    54 minutes ago, Asterion said:

    That is, card erased and distro image burnt on SD, first boot into system, enter root then 1234, enter a new root password, goes away a few seconds and then the error comes up.


    username: root

    password: 1234

    repeat the password: 1234

    new password: xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

    repeat new password: xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

     

     

     

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