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Using the extracted dtb file from andriod, i was unable to boot the tvbox (a green screen appears and remains there). Even i converted the .dtb file into .dts and than back to .dtb (because someone is saying that .dtb file is kernel dependent). Still same green screen. I know @balbes150 stop supporting this tvbox due to lack of support from amlogic. But still it the cheapest tvbox and if we defined a methodology of correctly extracting the .dtb file and do some changes than it can be documented and used for others (If only the .dtb file that does matter here). Or if we know the methodology of adding support of any tvbox (if the .dtb file is the only we need to change) than i can put an effort to document it all.

After fighting with the TVbox am able to extract the .dtb file convert it in .dts file i96.dts i96.dtb

yes very true, its old one. and thanks

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I am changing the file/folder permission using chown but is it not permanent chown proxy:proxy a.log ls -l total 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 proxy proxy 0 Apr 10 07:30 a.log Now after some time that include reboot ls -l total 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Apr 10 07:30 a.log I am using armbian on orange pi zero plus uname -r 5.4.14-sunxi64

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Create a hotspot at windows and connect Tanix s912 (running armbian) with it. Enabled armbian as iperf server and windows laptop as iperf client. When server and client are 5m away When the server and client are 25m away with walls It seems its wifi is not good or the wifi driver is not good

Yes wifi appears in GUI while using the q200.dtb file. kernel version is new 5.6

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Let me try my luck without any modification and using *q200.dtb file

By the way i found no heating issue in it

i am using above mentioned commands but split_bootimg.pl does not produce boot.img-second.gz file

I was compiling with different kernel version. installed kernel was different. Anyhow now i dont need to compile it

s912 has a big heat sink on it but still it become hot. what about the heating problem in s905x3? and armbian on s905x3. till now my experience is very good on s905x3 board.

You mean first extract the dts file of this tvbox while running on andriod and then extract the wifi settings from dts file. Second, convert the meson-gxm-q200.dtb to dts and then add the wifi setting and convert back to .dtb. Then use this dtb file with armbian version 20200326

Unable to work because of medical issue, today i work and found The chip on the board is 8189EFV Found driver on https://github.com/jwrdegoede/rtl8189ES_linux then the make make ARCH=arm64 CROSS_COMPILE= -C /lib/modules/5.5.11-meson64/build make: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-5.5.11-meson64' UPD include/config/kernel.release UPD include/generated/utsrelease.h CC scripts/mod/empty.o HOSTCC scripts/mod/mk_elfconfig MKELF scripts/mod/elfconfig.h HOSTCC scripts/mod/modpost.o CC scripts/mod/devicetable-offsets.s UPD scripts/mod/devicetable-offsets.h HOSTCC scripts/mod/file2alias.o HOSTCC scripts/mod/sumversion.o HOSTLD scripts/mod/modpost make[1]: *** No rule to make target 'arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/vdso.lds', needed by 'arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/vdso.so.dbg'. Stop. make: *** [arch/arm64/Makefile:164: vdso_prepare] Error 2 make: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-5.5.11-meson64' Armbian full firmware is installed apt install armbian-firmware-full Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done armbian-firmware-full is already the newest version (20.05.0-trunk.083). 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. One think to note is root@aml:~/rtl8189ES_linux# uname -r 5.5.0-rc6-aml-s9xxx Moreover, sometimes my experience of using the armbian on this tvbox is not good as it hangs alot.

Update: the first task is to identify the wifi chipset. I ssh the tvbox while running andriod and found this line in dmesg [ 2799.880433@4] RTL871X: SetHwReg8188E(wlan0): [HW_VAR_MACID_WAKEUP] macid=0, org reg_0x48c=0x00000001 Further i open the box and found that wifi chip is rtl8189ETV The driver mentioned in the above link https://github.com/rdm-dev/rtl8189ES_linux/trunk results in 404 So i google and found driver from this link https://linux-sunxi.org/Wifi and driver on https://github.com/jwrdegoede/rtl8189ES_linux then the make make ARCH=arm64 CROSS_COMPILE= -C /lib/modules/5.5.11-meson64/build make: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-5.5.11-meson64' UPD include/config/kernel.release UPD include/generated/utsrelease.h CC scripts/mod/empty.o HOSTCC scripts/mod/mk_elfconfig MKELF scripts/mod/elfconfig.h HOSTCC scripts/mod/modpost.o CC scripts/mod/devicetable-offsets.s UPD scripts/mod/devicetable-offsets.h HOSTCC scripts/mod/file2alias.o HOSTCC scripts/mod/sumversion.o HOSTLD scripts/mod/modpost make[1]: *** No rule to make target 'arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/vdso.lds', needed by 'arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/vdso.so.dbg'. Stop. make: *** [arch/arm64/Makefile:164: vdso_prepare] Error 2 make: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-5.5.11-meson64' found an error but no solution of it

Thank you @balbes150 i will explore and share my output

I want to put an effort to add wifi support of these (tanix s912 and topleo s905x3) boards on armbian. I need pointers to continue my efforts in this direction. And if successful i will extend my efforts in any require direction of opensource armbian.

I am running tanix s912 tv box with Armbian_20.02.0-rc1.037_Aml-s9xxx_buster_current_5.5.0-rc6_20200205.img using meson-gxm-q200.dtb. The wifi is not working