armbian-cubox-i

Here the details about my cubox i4 which also had network issues with 5.8.x. It is currently running smoothly with an older version. I hope somebody helps this information as such driver issues go beyond my knowledge. cat /etc/armbian-release # PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BOARD=cubox-i BOARD_NAME="Cubox i2eX/i4" BOARDFAMILY=imx6 BUILD_REPOSITORY_URL=https://github.com/armbian/build BUILD_REPOSITORY_COMMIT=b9814056 DISTRIBUTION_CODENAME=buster DISTRIBUTION_STATUS=supported VERSION=20.11.3 LINUXFAMILY=imx6 BRANCH=current ARCH=arm IMAGE_TYPE=stable BOARD_TYPE=conf INITRD_ARCH=arm KERNEL_IMAGE_TYPE=Image uname -a Linux <hostname> 5.7.15-imx6 #20.08 SMP Mon Aug 17 07:36:36 CEST 2020 armv7l GNU/Linux find /sys -name phy_id /sys/devices/soc0/soc/2100000.bus/2188000.ethernet/mdio_bus/2188000.ethernet-1/$ find: ‘/sys/module/at803x/drivers’: Input/output error ifconfig eth0 eth0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 inet <ip router> netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast <ip cubox> inet6 2001:9e8:208c:6800:84e5:8994:7642:4da2 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x0<global> inet6 fe80::3721:95e0:891b:d0ef prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link> ether d0:63:b4:00:32:d9 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet) RX packets 17508632 bytes 3075857589 (2.8 GiB) RX errors 0 dropped 4 overruns 0 frame 0 TX packets 6162802 bytes 803661074 (766.4 MiB) TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0Cubox

Hello, I'm experiencing exactly the same problem. The upgrade to kernel 5.8.x broke the ethernet on my Cubox-i, a completely fresh image with the same kernel had the same issue. My solution for now was a clean install with kernel 5.7.15 (downgrading wasn't successful for me) and frozen kernel updates in armbian-config.