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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!

Is it best for Allwinner 32bit users to avoid Armbian 23.5 for the time being?

FWIW, I just received a new OPi0 LTS H3 today and popped in a microsd with Armbian 23.02 Bullseye. Started up properly and seems to be working fine. Haven't pushed the wifi at all hard yet, but even that has been okay so far.