fabiobassa

RK322Xs is 32 bit ARM CPUs and can only running 32 bit OS so not possible installing aarch64 OS on the hardware.
Also it have not enough RAM (normally 1 or 2 G) for running very large docker containers.

@Joshua allen
 
asking for private chat to solve personal issues  is the most unappropriate way to act in a public forum.
 
For several reasons:

1) your problem could be the same problem for other people sharing your issues, so solving for you could be solving for many
2) this is an hobby for us and not job.     Job is paid, hobby is for free.          if you need help for your personal issue you can give an advice asking for paid help
3)this really is the worst approach to an open community of people that friendly and mutual try to help each others
 
that said....
would you share what is your problem, since you already asked for help ( private help..) in another post ?

describe what is working, what not, attach procedures and photos of board , explain your moves and results
 
We will try to give you a helpful  hand.

@toro2077
If I remember well, and you can confirm by yourself scrolling in older posts, thiw wifi will never ever work since there aren't any driver avaible for this ( infamous) chip s9012p

There is still such a problem. When the device reboots, the USB Ethernet adapter does not initialize. You have to pull it out and put it in again. When the device is turned off, there is no such thing.

@Obmor
here it is a module for kernel 6.6.67 and rtl8189es. Put this module in /lib/modules/6.6.41-current-rockchip/kernel/drivers/net/wireless directory, then run sudo depmod -a and reboot.
If everything went ok, you should get 8189es driver loaded after boot; perhaps you may need a firmware to put somewhere in /lib/firmware. In case, the driver should complain about in dmesg that something is missing or wrong, and that may serve as hint to proceed further.
 
 
8189es.ko.gz

@Obmor
the ssv6051 is one of the best supported chip we studied.
but since some conflicts with 8723as/bs/cs  chip it is blacklisted
is strange because armbian-config should solve the question and give you wifi
try again with armbian-config and select ssv6051 or dig into modules blacklist and comment out ssv6051 ko

wil pm you for additional infos on your project since is a thread not concerning this forum

Everything is here: https://github.com/armbian/build/

@fabiobassa
Now I use this one: https://www.ozon.ru/product/ustroystvo-upravleniya-diskretnymi-signalami-usb-gpio-extender-1757581290/
but there are few lines. I ordered this one more : https://aliexpress.ru/item/1005005823954618.html?sku_id=12000034481303368
 

@zzc @galenzhao @Obmor tvboxes have a huge amount of wireless chip on board and supporting all of them is very difficult and time consuming taks which I can't afford anymore; the APxxxx series is usually supported because they are basically broadcom chips and the driver is there, but their functionality also depends upon the board wiring, the firmware, the nvram, etc... as you see there are several pieces in the puzzle and it is not easy to fit them without some effort.
 
The best advice I could give you if you need basic wireless connectivity, is to buy a mediatek-based (mt7601) USB dongle; the next best advice is to buy SBCs with standard or premium support (not CSC) by armbian

@hmmm the board boots properly if the leds are blinking, but you need to run rk322x-config via SSH and select the proper led-config for R29 boards: these boards are known to turn off HDMI unless a specific GPIO is switched on.

You already have best possible desktop on this hardware. Simple and fast XFCE. Changing desktop environment won't make any vivid difference. 
https://docs.armbian.com/#key-advantages
 
XUbuntu is more or less identical to Armbian Ubuntu with XFCE subtracted for some Canonical proprietary stuff.

LXDE vs. XFCE ... not worth the troubles maintaining yet another desktop. Difference is too small. We only keep XFCE, Gnome, Cinnamon and KDE Neon in good shape. The rest waits for enthusiast https://github.com/armbian/build/tree/main/config/desktop and you can always start with a minimal CLI image and build on top any desktop you want.

@Minoro Hamada Supposing you removed the sdcard from the slot, the only way to tell you what is happening is providing logs from the serial interface. You may have a broken/read only eMMC. Also you did not specify what image, what kernel, what board you have...

@Mr-TNTplease can you send some picture of board ,
 
there are 2 boards with problem first wherer the right LED-Config has to been set with ssh after flash per LAN , the secound has a close bootloader which need a diffirent OPTEE area wich need to be flash seperatly
 
overall normaly when sd-card boot work than  later it should also boot from that , yyou can also flash armbian direct to sdcard and also try to boot from sdcard maybe as short term solution

Hello @Vladimir Trondin, as @fabiobassa already pointed out, there is no driver for ssv6158. Doing some research, it seems that it may use the ssv6x5x driver, but it would require adaptation, plenty of time, plenty of patience and you would not be sure if it will finally work.
 
About the eMMC of your board, it would be handy to get the output of dmesg command, but in the meantime you could do some experimentation with the emmc parameters in rk322x-config withing this page:
 

 
In particular, try to enable emmc-pins and emmc-ddr-ph45 or emmc-ddr-ph180 or emmc-hs200 (these last three are alternative, only one should be enabled) and see if your emmc gets detected after a reboot.
 
Also your board r3229q is not listed within the led-conf options, but I see some similarities with r329q board (led-conf2) MXQPRO_V72 (led-conf6), so you may start trying with those ones, or stick with generic since your wifi is already detected despite being useless.
 

It isn't very big problem, USB dongle Ralink MT7601U works fine.

Looks like problem is related to the newest versions, Armbian_22.02.0-trunk_Rk322x-box_focal_legacy_4.4.194_xfce_desktop.img.xz works fine. But wifi doesn't work (sv6158).

@E O Bernardini From the first page opening post is https://users.armbian.com/jock/rk322x/armbian/stable/ you find the last Jocks builds.

@Parth the soc is slow, it is one of the slowest socs around with a modest amount of memory on board , so don't expect stellar performance.
The image with debian bookworm is a minimal image: small and good for servers.
 
For all the other questions, you can consult the official armbian documentation  https://docs.armbian.com/ and related forums

@fabiobassa
 
my plan here is simple, i wanna use it as a linux box where i can have a 21inch touch screen display running a flutter app. and ofcourse some other nittygritty things like it would be controlling some hardware over usb, would have GSM for network connection and so on. since this is a cheap thing available than a raspberry pi, best to use this for the purpose.

@Parth
Even 3128 is working quite well with linux  just compile kernel with appropriate config and appropriate cpu platform

Regarding the garbage on uart, remember the uart speed is unusual  ( 1500000 NOT 115200 ) until it starts modified uboot that is 115200 so you have to take care of this note

I am the one in this project that discovered the uart pins on mostly of 322x boards and I can give for sure that if garbage comes out is:
wrong pin
wrong speed
lack of ground

On the software - firmware side   can give you answers  @jock  @RaptorSDS and all the friends athat daily work on those boards
 

@hfrts hello!
 
First of all: no documentation from the manufacturs of any kind. Cheap tv boxes come without any kind of documentation: they are dirty cheap hardware with barely working software.
 
The board footprint/silkscreen is indeed the first thing to look for to find the matching led-config: all known boards are listed within the rk322x-config script.
If your board is not listed, then the stock firmware (or its device tree) and photos of the board most of the time are enough to properly match an existing led-config with the board or create a new led-config for a new board.

ah ok , thank you , I'm going to test a usb key wifi

two methods ,
1. boot image first than automatic resize to bigger size ( most of the drive) , than put your image on card
 
2. use the compressed image of armbian on the sd card , the multotool also can use zip and tar and tar.xz and tar.gz

wirte the armbian image to SD Card and than insert and start , than it should boot from SD card like the multitool
 
i had nowadays 4 of this box, one old AMlogic s802 ( over 5 years in use with armbian scan and printserver) ) 1 xrk322x that work out of the box with armbian , one rk322x with resolder wifi from wired china chip to rtl8723ds , and now a rk3328 with android ( sadly sd card is on wrong sdio port)

I sent them a message, even sent an email and a whatsapp to the manufacture ( junuo ? hehe) , will see if I get a reply, google sadly doesn't help as seems it's the latest version of the board (v3.0), I really want to make this wifi work 😂 

The thing about SBC is that I already have one, the thing is that I spent some good time searching for a chip that would have multiple usb hosts instead of just one, and that's not easy to find, specially not below 50 euros, I came across the rk3228, that somehow is available at those tv boxes :(.