79bass

never mind, I've actually seen @pista configuration in OP, so the information I asked was already in plain sight! apologies for asking without even looking carefully first. Apparently, my minix U1 boots only using an SD card, it really doesn't like USB. Everything seems to work OKish from SD.

I know this is an old post, but I noticed that @pista has the same box I’m trying to run. I really like the minix neo U1, because the board itself has already soldered jtag and other pins, and everything seems to be properly labeled (it’s not granted that manufacturers write which port is what!) I’m trying to boot this box with a recent version of uboot and linux, but it seems Impossible 😫. @pista, if you are still around, could you please write which version of u-boot/kernel/armbian is working for you? thanks already!

Hi all, thanks @balbes150 for the great effort on porting armbian to this "cheap" TV boxes. I need a headless linux box, and I have a minx NEO U1 that I don't use much anymore, ergo Armbian! So I basically need a linux box with LAN connection, don'r really care about HDMI or graphics. I've read around the forum, and dispite being a popular box, the neo u1 is not discussed much in the armbian. Apparently I already have multiboot set up (I was using libreElec in the box in the past), I made it working open/libreELEC many years ago. so much time ago that I can't find the USBnor dtb files I was using. Anyway, the box boot up fine the Armbian_19.11.3 (server) image with almost any *gxbb* dtb. I think the right dtb it could be the meson-gxbb-p201.dtb, I have no error, the system can detect 2Gb of RAM, and from ifconfig and dmesg I would say that eth0 interface is up, but unfortunately the ethernet network doesn't really work... The system clearly sees the ethernet port as something logs in dmesg when I plug/remove the cable but it never picks up an IP address (at least not an IPv4 one) from the router DHCP server. I'm sure the router/cable are OK, as any other machine gets an IP correctly with the same cable/port/router. Curiously with meson-gxbb-p200.dtb I have error some PHY LAN-related error (I haven't collected the debug info, but I can if that could be helpful). I don't have a serial cable to USB to log in UART mode. I've tried p200 since in the libreELEC github devicetree there is a gxbb_p200_2G_minix_neo_u1.dts, and it inherit the LAN from gxbb_p200_2G.dts. So if I follow/fix the error I have using the meson-gxbb-p200.dtb I may solve my LAN issue. Does anyone have this box and was successful on booting up with a working LAN? (and or have an idea what I could change to make LAN working) Cheers EDIT: I've checked the LAN connection with Android and it works (I actually wasn't sure about that) EDIT2: I've tried to play around with dts files, modify/compile, but I came to the realisation that the ethernet support for the mason family (at least gxbb) is completely broken! I'm so surprised that the lima driver kind of works, while the ethernet hardware is kind of unsupported! I gave a try to the wifi then, after setting up the firmwares files and configure wpa_supplicant and changing the interfaces... I still don't have wlan0 in the possible interfaces, although the brcmfmac module load without errors. I was thinking to swap the on board u-boot with more recent version, but I can't mount the mmc, as I can only see the mmcblck0 device and non its partitions! So unfortunate. Last resort fo me, is try to load a u-boot from usb. I've found some handwaving instruction in this forum, but I don't think I fully understand it. Anyway, do you think that swapping the u-boot may solve some of the board issues?