Igor

Ok, thanks. So now I need a file /etc/modprobe.d/a6210.conf with the following contents:
options ap6210 op_mode=2 Also, it is not clear to me whether everybody is aware that in order to make hostapd run at boot, you have to edit the file /etc/default/hostapd and uncomment the line
#DAEMON_CONF="" and change it to
DAEMON_CONF="/etc/hostapd.conf" I believe it would be good to mention these two issues in your section on "How to set wireless access point" in your documentation. Especially the last point has not really been mentioned anywhere, has it?
 
In any case, I believe it is appropriate to really thank you very much again for the treemdous work you are doing with ARMbian!
 
chessplayer
 
P.S.: Can again be marked as "solved" ... 

I just figured out there is something else ... need to look further. I just built 4.4 for CT and try USB install. It does not work ... CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG=y  
 
Edit: SATA install works fine.

Meanwhile I compiled the image from github sources according to the documention with KERNEL_ONLY=YES and installed it over 4.81 and the USB DVB stick works.
 
Thanks again !

Ok so first a big thanks to Igor for the work he has put into armbian, started using this build when it was still posted on Igor's site
 
anyway i wanted more information out of the motd and here is what i came up with this is running on my cubietruck with the latest kernel 
_ ___| |_ ___ _ __ __ _ __ _ ___ / __| __/ _ \| '__/ _` |/ _` |/ _ \ \__ \ || (_) | | | (_| | (_| | __/ |___/\__\___/|_| \__,_|\__, |\___| |___/ Welcome to Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS (4.3.3-sunxi). System information as of: Mon Jan 11 21:34:35 EET 2016 System load: 0.14 Memory usage: 97.5% Local users: 0 Swap usage: 0.0% IP address: 888.888.88.8 Uptime: up 6 days, 19 hours, 50 minutes Usage of root/: 8% of 16G HDD temp: 43°C Usage of storage/: 26% of 443G Board temp: 47°C 0 updates to install. 0 are security updates. Last login: Mon Jan 11 07:50:37 2016 from 888.888.88.888 root@storage:~# this should work with both debian and ubuntu versions but has some hard coded values at least for the sensor temp in the cubietruck 
 
upload everything from the archive to the /etc/ folder, make the files inside executable (chmod +x) - the files are taken from https://nickcharlton.net/posts/debian-ubuntu-dynamic-motd.htmlbut 10-sysinfo was updated with more information
 
finally disable default motd by editing the bash.bashrc files (remove/delete) this lines
if [ -f /etc/bash.bashrc.custom ]; then . /etc/bash.bashrc.custom fi   after this with every new login you should see the new motd
 
update-motd.d.zip

@all
FYI, kernel 4.4.0 is out
 
Tested USB OTG on cubietruck; OTG autodetect and vbus (automatically enabling power on OTG port when OTG cable is plugged in) works with some extra kernel modules, will upload my kernel config later.
As a side-effect, I can use onboard miniUSB port as a serial console (only after systemd starts necessary getty service, of course).
Onboard audio works if DMA driver is loaded via /etc/modules or if it's compiled as built-in.
 
Edit: extras for /etc/modules:
# sunxi musb OTG sunxi # serial gadget (old) driver - required g_serial # ACM - for serial port emulation usb_f_acm Edit 2: For Debian Jessie (or stretch) gadget serial device name is /dev/ttyGS0, so command to enable it would be
sudo systemctl enable getty@ttyGS0.service

Thanks ;O)

It's exact depth - only wider.
 
LEDs works fine.
 
Add: Sorry for quality. Have only some cheap compact around.

Clearfog PRO with R1 in the back
 
After a day of playing, I am running full featured Armbian, Debian Wheezy, built with Armbian script from sources. We had to fix few things in U-boot and upgraded kernel to .82 but generally it was easy to boot the board. Of course SolidRun also provide some basic images.
 
Three(3) phys, USB and PCI is detected in kernel 3.10.82 - I don't have much hardware to plug in so I can't do much tests at this point. There is no CPU governor (yet?), so I assume it's running full speed (1.6Ghz) all the time. There are dip switches on the board to set cpu / dram speed ...
____ _ __ / ___| | ___ __ _ _ __ / _| ___ __ _ | | | |/ _ \/ _` | '__| |_ / _ \ / _` | | |___| | __/ (_| | | | _| (_) | (_| | \____|_|\___|\__,_|_| |_| \___/ \__, | |___/ Welcome to ARMBIAN (Debian wheezy 3.10.94-marvell) Last login: Sat Jan 9 10:11:28 2016 from desktop Load: 0.00, 0.01, 0.05 - Board: 64.6°C - Memory: 973Mb root@armada:~# Waiting for:
I decided to drop idea to put an AC card into the board since it's simply too problematic and expensive (66USD). This card doesn't have support in legacy kernel, in 4.4 have no idea if everything else already works + I have only one AC device in the lab. The Wireless card I choose is not fresh new but it's cheap (14USD) and reported working on Linux: Atheros AR5BXB112 AR9380 450Mbps. If I get stability and around real 300Mbps is good enough.
 
M2 drive. I'll put one 128G INSSD128GM.26M2242 TRANSCEND MTS400 128GB SSD SATA3 M.2 2242 TS128GMTS400 which should be big enough for most cases.
 
Mpci2sata for one ordinary SATA. 
 
SFP module. Haven't found the proper one yet.
 
With Armbian tools it's possible to build (I collect and fix all patches) and should be possible to boot kernel 4.3.3 and 4.4 - next.
 
Network performance (over TP link switch). 
Windows desktop -> Clearfog [ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 1.09 GBytes 938 Mbits/sec [ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 1.07 GBytes 922 Mbits/sec [ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 1.09 GBytes 938 Mbits/sec Clearfog -> Windows desktop [ 4] 0.0-10.0 sec 1.04 GBytes 889 Mbits/sec [ 5] 0.0-10.0 sec 1.02 GBytes 878 Mbits/sec [ 4] 0.0-10.0 sec 1.03 GBytes 882 Mbits/sec To be continued ...
 
Edit #1: Board boots with 4.3.3 / Eth: no, USB: yes, mPci: yes
Edit #2: Jessie image download
Edit #3: Legacy kernel upgraded to 3.10.94
Edit #4: Network performance
Edit #5: If eth0 connected to gigabit, + cca. 2°C more heat on CPU in idle
Edit #6: mSATA is working with patched U-boot
Edit #7: mSATA and mPCI can be enabled in any combination. Tested one wireless card ...
Edit #8: boot time when installed to low performance 32Gb mSATA, power -> Login prompt <= 10s, (-3s waiting at u-boot) = cca. 7sec
Edit #9: I2C working out of the box. Tested with display, communication is slow. Perhaps only the settings
Edit #10: USB somehow buggy on current legacy kernel. I was trying to use Temper to collect temperature ... it worked once, next reading hang the device and I need to unplug / plug. Haven't debug. USB flash memory working normal.
Edit #11: Added cpu freq scalling 800/1600Mhz -> less heat in idle
Edit #12: Kernel 4.3.3 & 4.4 / Eth: yes, USB: yes, mPci: yes, mSata: yes ... and doing preliminary testing with Atheros AR9380 N wireless card // Kernel not ready yet
Edit:#13: Added mSATA to SATA card, patch a driver to unlock cheap - (consumer grade!, 13 USD shipped) AR9380 AR5BXB112 wireless card to operate at 5Ghz. Running STABLE
Edit:#14: Booting from m2 120G SATA drive
Edit:#15: Measuring temperature on the edge of heatsink = 39-42 while ambient is around 20.
Edit:#16: Added external 2.5 inch mechanical SATA drive powered from Clearfog +5V from header

Clearfog PRO with R1 in the back
 
After a day of playing, I am running full featured Armbian, Debian Wheezy, built with Armbian script from sources. We had to fix few things in U-boot and upgraded kernel to .82 but generally it was easy to boot the board. Of course SolidRun also provide some basic images.
 
Three(3) phys, USB and PCI is detected in kernel 3.10.82 - I don't have much hardware to plug in so I can't do much tests at this point. There is no CPU governor (yet?), so I assume it's running full speed (1.6Ghz) all the time. There are dip switches on the board to set cpu / dram speed ...
____ _ __ / ___| | ___ __ _ _ __ / _| ___ __ _ | | | |/ _ \/ _` | '__| |_ / _ \ / _` | | |___| | __/ (_| | | | _| (_) | (_| | \____|_|\___|\__,_|_| |_| \___/ \__, | |___/ Welcome to ARMBIAN (Debian wheezy 3.10.94-marvell) Last login: Sat Jan 9 10:11:28 2016 from desktop Load: 0.00, 0.01, 0.05 - Board: 64.6°C - Memory: 973Mb root@armada:~# Waiting for:
I decided to drop idea to put an AC card into the board since it's simply too problematic and expensive (66USD). This card doesn't have support in legacy kernel, in 4.4 have no idea if everything else already works + I have only one AC device in the lab. The Wireless card I choose is not fresh new but it's cheap (14USD) and reported working on Linux: Atheros AR5BXB112 AR9380 450Mbps. If I get stability and around real 300Mbps is good enough.
 
M2 drive. I'll put one 128G INSSD128GM.26M2242 TRANSCEND MTS400 128GB SSD SATA3 M.2 2242 TS128GMTS400 which should be big enough for most cases.
 
Mpci2sata for one ordinary SATA. 
 
SFP module. Haven't found the proper one yet.
 
With Armbian tools it's possible to build (I collect and fix all patches) and should be possible to boot kernel 4.3.3 and 4.4 - next.
 
Network performance (over TP link switch). 
Windows desktop -> Clearfog [ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 1.09 GBytes 938 Mbits/sec [ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 1.07 GBytes 922 Mbits/sec [ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 1.09 GBytes 938 Mbits/sec Clearfog -> Windows desktop [ 4] 0.0-10.0 sec 1.04 GBytes 889 Mbits/sec [ 5] 0.0-10.0 sec 1.02 GBytes 878 Mbits/sec [ 4] 0.0-10.0 sec 1.03 GBytes 882 Mbits/sec To be continued ...
 
Edit #1: Board boots with 4.3.3 / Eth: no, USB: yes, mPci: yes
Edit #2: Jessie image download
Edit #3: Legacy kernel upgraded to 3.10.94
Edit #4: Network performance
Edit #5: If eth0 connected to gigabit, + cca. 2°C more heat on CPU in idle
Edit #6: mSATA is working with patched U-boot
Edit #7: mSATA and mPCI can be enabled in any combination. Tested one wireless card ...
Edit #8: boot time when installed to low performance 32Gb mSATA, power -> Login prompt <= 10s, (-3s waiting at u-boot) = cca. 7sec
Edit #9: I2C working out of the box. Tested with display, communication is slow. Perhaps only the settings
Edit #10: USB somehow buggy on current legacy kernel. I was trying to use Temper to collect temperature ... it worked once, next reading hang the device and I need to unplug / plug. Haven't debug. USB flash memory working normal.
Edit #11: Added cpu freq scalling 800/1600Mhz -> less heat in idle
Edit #12: Kernel 4.3.3 & 4.4 / Eth: yes, USB: yes, mPci: yes, mSata: yes ... and doing preliminary testing with Atheros AR9380 N wireless card // Kernel not ready yet
Edit:#13: Added mSATA to SATA card, patch a driver to unlock cheap - (consumer grade!, 13 USD shipped) AR9380 AR5BXB112 wireless card to operate at 5Ghz. Running STABLE
Edit:#14: Booting from m2 120G SATA drive
Edit:#15: Measuring temperature on the edge of heatsink = 39-42 while ambient is around 20.
Edit:#16: Added external 2.5 inch mechanical SATA drive powered from Clearfog +5V from header

Today I installed the new kernel with the new drivers and it works :-)
The Stick is now available and I can look TV via TVHeadend!!

Thanks a lot!

But what do I have to do if the driver is not automatically included that I only have to compile?

https://github.com/igorpecovnik/lib/commit/d26d5b20c795b8d943114de64fc34163a4864dab
 
https://github.com/igorpecovnik/lib/commit/63291e8d47f28bd8db27456f7206e7bfa6872057
 
Yes, now it should be o.k. .... checking.
 

 
Edit: works

Clearfog PRO with R1 in the back
 
After a day of playing, I am running full featured Armbian, Debian Wheezy, built with Armbian script from sources. We had to fix few things in U-boot and upgraded kernel to .82 but generally it was easy to boot the board. Of course SolidRun also provide some basic images.
 
Three(3) phys, USB and PCI is detected in kernel 3.10.82 - I don't have much hardware to plug in so I can't do much tests at this point. There is no CPU governor (yet?), so I assume it's running full speed (1.6Ghz) all the time. There are dip switches on the board to set cpu / dram speed ...
____ _ __ / ___| | ___ __ _ _ __ / _| ___ __ _ | | | |/ _ \/ _` | '__| |_ / _ \ / _` | | |___| | __/ (_| | | | _| (_) | (_| | \____|_|\___|\__,_|_| |_| \___/ \__, | |___/ Welcome to ARMBIAN (Debian wheezy 3.10.94-marvell) Last login: Sat Jan 9 10:11:28 2016 from desktop Load: 0.00, 0.01, 0.05 - Board: 64.6°C - Memory: 973Mb root@armada:~# Waiting for:
I decided to drop idea to put an AC card into the board since it's simply too problematic and expensive (66USD). This card doesn't have support in legacy kernel, in 4.4 have no idea if everything else already works + I have only one AC device in the lab. The Wireless card I choose is not fresh new but it's cheap (14USD) and reported working on Linux: Atheros AR5BXB112 AR9380 450Mbps. If I get stability and around real 300Mbps is good enough.
 
M2 drive. I'll put one 128G INSSD128GM.26M2242 TRANSCEND MTS400 128GB SSD SATA3 M.2 2242 TS128GMTS400 which should be big enough for most cases.
 
Mpci2sata for one ordinary SATA. 
 
SFP module. Haven't found the proper one yet.
 
With Armbian tools it's possible to build (I collect and fix all patches) and should be possible to boot kernel 4.3.3 and 4.4 - next.
 
Network performance (over TP link switch). 
Windows desktop -> Clearfog [ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 1.09 GBytes 938 Mbits/sec [ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 1.07 GBytes 922 Mbits/sec [ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 1.09 GBytes 938 Mbits/sec Clearfog -> Windows desktop [ 4] 0.0-10.0 sec 1.04 GBytes 889 Mbits/sec [ 5] 0.0-10.0 sec 1.02 GBytes 878 Mbits/sec [ 4] 0.0-10.0 sec 1.03 GBytes 882 Mbits/sec To be continued ...
 
Edit #1: Board boots with 4.3.3 / Eth: no, USB: yes, mPci: yes
Edit #2: Jessie image download
Edit #3: Legacy kernel upgraded to 3.10.94
Edit #4: Network performance
Edit #5: If eth0 connected to gigabit, + cca. 2°C more heat on CPU in idle
Edit #6: mSATA is working with patched U-boot
Edit #7: mSATA and mPCI can be enabled in any combination. Tested one wireless card ...
Edit #8: boot time when installed to low performance 32Gb mSATA, power -> Login prompt <= 10s, (-3s waiting at u-boot) = cca. 7sec
Edit #9: I2C working out of the box. Tested with display, communication is slow. Perhaps only the settings
Edit #10: USB somehow buggy on current legacy kernel. I was trying to use Temper to collect temperature ... it worked once, next reading hang the device and I need to unplug / plug. Haven't debug. USB flash memory working normal.
Edit #11: Added cpu freq scalling 800/1600Mhz -> less heat in idle
Edit #12: Kernel 4.3.3 & 4.4 / Eth: yes, USB: yes, mPci: yes, mSata: yes ... and doing preliminary testing with Atheros AR9380 N wireless card // Kernel not ready yet
Edit:#13: Added mSATA to SATA card, patch a driver to unlock cheap - (consumer grade!, 13 USD shipped) AR9380 AR5BXB112 wireless card to operate at 5Ghz. Running STABLE
Edit:#14: Booting from m2 120G SATA drive
Edit:#15: Measuring temperature on the edge of heatsink = 39-42 while ambient is around 20.
Edit:#16: Added external 2.5 inch mechanical SATA drive powered from Clearfog +5V from header

Soon in dev branch (1-3 weeks) but not so soon in stable branch. Estimated.

cd /usr/src/linux-headers-4.3.3-sunxi make scripts And try again.
 
BTW: this driver is already inside kernel.

cd /usr/src/linux-headers-4.3.3-sunxi make scripts And try again.
 
BTW: this driver is already inside kernel.

Try executing this:
cd /usr/src/linux-headers-4.3.3-sunxi make scripts and if there are no errors then repeat your module compilation
 
Edit: I see only mt7601u in mainline source tree, don't know if it supports this wireless module.

[sOLVED]
 
Many thanks to both of you!
 
I've done the following steps, just for your records:
 
- Rebooted the unit
- System time incorrect (January 1970)
- Manually synced system time to hardware clock, in order to get the internet connection through OpenVPN working
- Installed fake-hwclock package (current version is 0.9): apt-get install fake-hwclock
- Rebooted the unit
- System time incorrect (January 1970)
- Manually synced system time to hardware clock, in order to get the internet connection through OpenVPN working
- Synced system time and hardware clock using NTP
- Rebooted the unit
- System time correct after boot
- OpenVPN works
 
Thank you once again!
You can close this thread.

Try to shape hostap config and perhaps try other instructions/options/hostapd:
 
https://bogeskov.dk/UsbAccessPoint.html
https://www.google.si/search?q=rtl8192cu+raspberry+pi+access+point&oq=rtl8192cu+raspberry+pi
 
Hostapd itself also have a lot of options and this latest might simply not working with this device.

Such little heated discussion are usually most productive 
  
 
QCA9880 can be found in many routers so I guess it should be o.k. but it's expensive - around 60 EUR shipped   and I need to triple check if it's really worthy and if I need an extra card for 2.4G. I think I do.
 
 
That's also what brought my attention. Typical home / small office setup has fiber nowadays, I use fiber converter ... Could be one box and two cables less because of that.

I am getting this one in few days. The PRO version is not in the price range of R1 but the normal / LITE could be (there is no price yet). If you consider than you get much more and I predict less troubles, than the price diff perish even compared to PRO. 
 
I don't want to judge anything before booting the beast, but it looks very well designed and right for the job. This device should be able to replace your router and NAS, while R1 doesn't come close to low end / average router and NAS capabilities.
 
Any recommendation for AC mPCI card that works well in Linux 3.18 - 4.4 (AP mode)?
 
 
 

General public is easy to mislead to backup the project - general public aka kick-starter community is dumb as hell. It's all about marketing. SBC's are still hot stuff and hardware development become ridiculous cheap so it's a great way to make money.
 
As I see you already made it to persuade investors. Why bother developers community, where you don't intent to invest more then few free boards here and there and use our channels for free marketing? BTW: You can run your marketing campaign on your own website or wherever but here you need to ask for permission. I hate ads.
 
Even before your boards become stable (to be used by professionals which is stated in your first line of your marketing appeal) you will probably restart the whole thing with a "new and better" board and hope to catch as many backers as possible. All board manufacturers are using community's current and future contribution in their business models and everyone want's to become next RPi in numbers. This is the only way you don't need to pledge anyone. Until then, we control the game.
 
Free sample? I have a bunch of boards and so do other people who develop and contribute. I don't even think to support your boards without paradigm change toward community. You collected the money for our work and you kept it. What the f*?
 
You are an engineer. It's is not your fault nor responsibility to think about this in such way. Don't take it personally either.

I am running kernel 3.4.110-sun7i and this missed line (power_start = 1) has not been added yet. So If u connected battery to your Banana Pi clone or Cubietruck and your device instead shutdown only reboots again and again you need to add this line manually.

@Igor
 
Thanks for b53... I nearly achieved the quick fix last night...
my mistake: b53 needs to be included in the kernel, not as a module
 
EDIT:
Also, as you have added the patch in "lib" & I didn't remove the same patch from "userpatches", the patch was not applied twice (same file name), cool
@zador : "Zador j'adore" (like Dior perfume commercial) I like Zador

Hi Igor,
 
thanks for your reply. Installing and using fake-hwclock works.
 
Best regards
Franz