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Wondering if there is someplace that I can look to see status and plans for Zero 3 support? Personally I'm most interested in keeping an eye on any progress towards analog audio support, and wifi improvements, but I'd be interested to see any developments as they happen. Or maybe it's the case that now that Zero 3 is up and running, with most functions working, it doesn't have anyone continuing to work on it?

You mean your kernel aims to fix the running-hot problem? Or the incorrect-temp-reporting problem? I just download linux-image-edge-sunxi_6.4.14-Armbian.23.10_armhf.deb and "apt install" it?

Yes, a finger touch tells me if it’s basically room temp, a little warm, pretty warm, very warm, or hot. The system message when I ssh in tells me a specific number in Celsius, but I take your point that if it feels a bit warm it must be more than 26C

Okay, I've downgraded to kernel 6.1 and seems like the problem has gone away. I'm happy to return to 6.6 to assist with any troubleshoot, but at least for now I've got a working system. (I've been streaming audio with mpd for a couple of hours; device is reporting 26C and feels warm but not crazy hot like before.)

Hmm, what is involved in downgrading the kernel; is that something that can be done via armbian-config? BTW, when I say that it has been freezing up on me, what I mean is that audio streaming stops and it disappears from my router’s connected devices, but the green LED remains on. I don’t know if the system has actually frozen or if WiFi just crashed.

Came to the forum today because my Zero has been weird for the past week or two (I use it for streaming audio, and it's been freezing up) and I just noticed that it's super hot. I have no idea how to troubleshoot this, but I've changed nothing for over a year, other than running apt upgrade.

@pixdrift, how is audio looking at this point? Analog audio support exists in orangepi's Ubuntu, but it's bad -- super weird alsamixer and doesn't work at all with shairport-sync -- so maybe it's a lost cause? If so I'll just stop waiting for it and will use my Zero3 for a non-audio application. Thanks everyone for your work bringing basic Armbian support to the Zero3 in spite of the lack of any assistance from Shenzhen Xunlong or Allwinner.

Well, this blog post convinced me that upgrading from bullseye to bookworm didn't have to be nearly as complex as the official Debian documentation made it out to be, so I followed those instructions and completed without error. Initially, I neglected to edit /etc/apt/sources.list.d/armbian.list before executing full-upgrade, but it seems to have worked as a two-step full-upgrade. Welcome to Armbian 23.8.3 Bookworm with Linux 6.1.53-current-sunxi and xradio wifi is working 😀

Ugh, upgrading from bullseye to bookworm sounds like a PITA that I could easily screw up. Would probably make more sense for me to just start over with a fresh 23.08 bookworm, especially since I don't have very much customization. But I'll wait for a couple of weeks before jumping on that ...

Now that xradio has been enabled on kernel 6.x, I'm ready to upgrade my Orange Pi Zero that I've been keeping on 23.02 with kernel 5.x. With armbian-config I've unfrozen kernel/firmware updates and after apt upgrade and reboot I am on kernel 6.1.53 and wifi is working! But boot message says I'm still on 23.02, and apt says that armbian-bsp-cli-orangepizero is being kept back. Now trying: $ sudo apt install armbian-bsp-cli-orangepizero [...] Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: armbian-bsp-cli-orangepizero-current : Depends: base-files (>= 23.8.3) but 23.8.1-bullseye is to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. Do I just need to wait for something to be updated in the repositories so that armbian-bsp-cli-orangepizero will be made available, or have I messed up something on my system that I need to fix?

Great news that the xradio fix has been released 😀! Based on this news I have used armbian-config to unfreeze kernel/firmware updates on my 23.02 installation. After apt upgrade and reboot I am on kernel 6.1.53 and wifi is working. But boot message says I'm still on 23.02, and apt says that armbian-bsp-cli-orangepizero is being held back. sudo apt install armbian-bsp-cli-orangepizero Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: armbian-bsp-cli-orangepizero-current : Depends: base-files (>= 23.8.3) but 23.8.1-bullseye is to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

That is fabulous news (and I hope you don't come to later regret it)! Is your best guess that it will land in 23.11, or as an update to 23.08?

My OrangePi Zero is on 23.02 and I intend to stay with it (unless/until xradio wifi works on kernel 6.x). Just ran apt update and it shows these available packages: armbian-config/bullseye,bullseye 23.08.0-trunk--1-SA9048-Baeda all [upgradable from: 23.02.2] armbian-firmware/bullseye,bullseye 23.08.0-trunk--1-SA1251-B226d all [upgradable from: 23.02.2] armbian-zsh/bullseye,bullseye 23.08.0-trunk--1-SAbfee-Baf88 all [upgradable from: 23.02.2] I'm surprised to see anything related to 23.08 seeing as that version hasn't been released yet, so obviously I don't really understand what it means to be seeing this. Should I go ahead and install these even though I don't intend to upgrade to 23.08? Maybe this should be in the "beginners" area; mods please feel free to move if appropriate.

I see that there's a task called "Enable xradio on Kernel 6.1" so I guess that suggests that some special work was/is needed. I don't know how to read the notes, but it kind of looks like this fix is targeted for Armbian 23.08, so the next stable release in August. Also https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/4682 suggests that this is targeted for 23.08 Hope this information is helpful to any other OPi0 users who are surprised to find wifi missing in Armbian 23.05.

Yeah, just noticed this myself. I was pleased that Armbian 23.05 started up just fine on my Orange Pi Zero (H3 LTS), seeing as other discussions had said that Allwinner 32bit was not working. Wireless is definitely not working OOTB, however. I updated firmware in armbian-config, but the Networking options don't show a wifi option. Neither ifconfig nor nmtui-connect list a wireless interface. No messages from xradio in dmesg. I think maybe I saw a mention in an old forum post that the xradio driver doesn't work with kernel 6.x, so maybe that's it? Or maybe it's just not set up quite right? Or maybe there's something that users need to do in order to get it working? In spite of the terrible reputation of the xradio driver, it was working adequately for me in Armbian bullseye. Very much hope that I can get it working in latest Armbian!