Tomas Catone

Hey buddy - thanks so much for the support. I really appreciate all you do.

I have got my T95Z Plus with S912 booting 6.12.24-current-meson64 just fine now. Getting Jellyfin up and running with all my old DVDs and CDs. Seems very capable. When do I push the OS into the eMMC? Is there a downside? Are there only so many times I can do this safely? If I chose to try the Debian builds - don't I just boot from a SD card and try it out? If I like that one better - then don't I just repeat the process and push that onto the eMMC? I believe I have the Android Source - or more precisely - I have a rom called SuperCelleron that I installed almost 10 years ago... That still boots when I don't have an SD card in. Also - visual inspection of this board proves I have an eMMC. I have another box that is identical outside. But on the inside it clearly has a NAND chip. I am sure this is a silly question - but just thought I'd ask. Thanks all.

Take apart your tv box. Take pictures of all the components inside. Looking for your exact part number of your wifi module - mine was AP6330. Then I googled and found this person solved it on their tv box. But the procedure might work for other wifi chipsets. Just have a look in /lib/firmware/brcm and you will see plenty of them. Plus I believe that is the broadcom designs. Going up one level there are even more. WARNING - Not an expert... but this trick worked for me. Good Luck.

TV Box Name: Sunvell T95Z plus Octagon shaped box (Beware – apparently a lot of variants) CPU Amlogics S912 Armbian build file name: Armbian_community_25.5.0-trunk.370_Aml-s9xx-box_noble_current_6.12.23 DTB file used: meson-gxm-vega-s96.dtb (but several seem to work… none with wifi out of the box) Kernel Version: 6.12.24 Distribution Installed (focal, buster, etc): Noble Working Ethernet (Yes/No): Yes Max Ethernet Speed that works (100/1000): Not sure how to determine... Does wifi work (Yes/No): YES *** See Below Does bluetooth work (Yes/No): Not tested Does HDMI audio work (Yes/No): Yes Additional Comments (provide any additional information you feel is important): Tested many files. Ubuntu (noble) seemed much more usable than Debian (bookworm) Also tested Armbian_community_25.5.0-trunk.334_Aml-s9xx-box_bookworm_current_6.12.21 _gnome_desktop.img.xz Armbian_community_25.5.0-trunk.334_Aml-s9xx-box_noble_current_6.12.21 _gnome_desktop.img.xz Armbian_community_25.5.0-trunk.334_Aml-s9xx-box_oracular_edge_6.14.0 _gnome_desktop.img.xz Armbian_community_25.5.0-trunk.334_Aml-s9xx-box_oracular_edge_6.14.0.img.xz Since I am trying to learn server/media center/adguard or pihole stuff – chose the server headless install eventually. Learning has started. **** Thank you thank you to @ZuiMelanieForno and their post here: But basically looks like the easy way is to create a soft link of the ap6330 driver file as the brcm4330 file that must be loaded by default. sudo mv /lib/firmware/brcm/brcmfmac4330-sdio.txt /lib/firmware/brcm/brcmfmac4330-sdio.txt.old sudo ln -s /lib/firmware/brcm/brcmfmac-ap6330-sdio.txt /lib/firmware/brcm/brcmfmac4330-sdio.txt Not sure of this solution will survive update. (UPDATE: Confirmed - it does not survive update - but doing the commands again and a reboot seemed to work.) I have installed pihole and had it running. I had jellyfin running. Rebuilt from 0 again and am trying to do inside of docker containers. Dockers seems running but still some learning to go. If I write my sd to my eMMC – can reset to 0 again by booting from an sd card … and when ready burn that to eMMC? Or should I keep the writes to the eMMC as few as possible? I own two of these boxes – Identical on the outside but the newer one (bought probably 1 year later) does NOT have an eMMC. It has the dreaded NAND chip(BiWIN 16GB)… Also a different wifi module I think…. (LTM8830) Oh and – can I just say I love pulling this thing out of retirement and having a tiny low cost media server in the house. Thanks @balbes150 and @SteeMan and Everyone for their hard work! This is amazing... until I blow it up again...