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@Keeper Sound like a generic no wifi found error to me. Did you run rk3318-config to get wifi running(you need to reboot) ? You can also check ifconfig for wlan type adapters to see if it detects. After reboot run "armbian-config" and set access point name and password. You should also be able to bypass the wifi problem with a usb wifi adapter if need be. I have had success with RTL8812BU based Comfast CF-812AC on 5ghz band but it will not connect to 2.4ghz at all or maybe it does if you disable WPA2. Another good one I have had very little issues is RTL8811 based "600mbps 2.4GHz+5GHz" although I have never seen it on 5ghz band. It is a bit of a hit and miss with what wifi usb adapter work on linux and what additional packages you might have to install to get it working.

@oolonthegreat @uehqsvbm Do not get too attached to devices that refuse to cooperate after a reasonable amount of effort. Just sell it and recover what you can and get one that people have had better success with. I recently fell into this trap with one particular openwrt supported device I have already spent months on it.

@uehqsvbm It could be that those three pins near ir receiver are just reversed order of ir receiver. I have seen similar designs. They just put multiple pads for different devices. I hear they are going to start doing more of that in future because of chip shortage. You can first the all the pins with a multimeter so that it is below 3.3v but I do not think this board has uart unfortunately. I guess if multiboot works you could get the sources and try to make it into something workable and find out what is wrong that way. Or build from sources and change as many things as possible and see if you get lucky. Actually the best option might be to configure uart TX pin on the led pin or one of the pins of the front led panel or ir receiver. I am pretty sure rk3318 chip is capable of that and I think I saw the full datasheet online. I do think the 1.5Mps uart is little risky high which can cause signal integrity problems. @jock Can you tell me where this blinking led is configured, it is now shining through the case and I do not like keeping anything that blinks in the house. I have not been able to crash my box at 1.3ghz and performance governor with fan cooling. Might give a whirl to overclocking with voltage mod but do not know how yet.

It appears it does not matter when you plug in HDMI cable. But for 3d printer owners out there I made a parametric cooler case(well top of it anyway) https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5447782 Certainly sorts out the overheating issue for the time being. Tested with cpuburn-a53 ln -s /sys/devices/virtual/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp /root/temp; cat /root/temp

So I build a minimal image from sources with Armbian 22.08.0-trunk Bullseye with Linux 5.15.58-rockchip64 and burned it with multitool without erasing emmc this time. Connected sigrok-pico to uart tx line and pulseview at 3mhz and 100M samples uart protocol decoder. It was a bit of a pain using a logic analyzer first time but I found a login prompt and so replaced sigrok-pico with ch340g usb uart and was able to login and create account without any issue this time. No wifi so I just stuck ethernet cable to my router and dhcp gave ip address to it. I connected hdmi and now that works as well. It seems that only 2gb of 4gb ram is detected but I can see that this kind of issues has been discussed before on this thread. So to sum it up, it seems 5.18 kernel has no hdmi but if you stick ethernet cable to a dhcp capable router one can get the ip and ssh into it - you probably want to use 5.15 kernel for the time being though. Perhaps something along the lines of git-bisect to get to the bottom of the hdmi issue. I do find it a bit strange that hdmi did not seem to work immediately after flashing. Perhaps one needs to replug the hdmi cable after it has booted. Feel like a winner already, thanks to everyone working on this!

None of these picocom supported speeds make sense out of the output: 576000, 921600, 1000000, 1152000, 1500000, 2000000, 2500000, 3000000, 3500000, 4000000 I found out that the factory flash tool does not work anymore even when pressing the hidden button. I have been trying to get https://github.com/pico-coder/sigrok-pico work on rpi pico or rpi pico w but there is a bug somewhere so I cannot used it yet. I did have not much trouble compiling it under linux. Should I get that to work, it should be fairly easy to figure out what is going on with the uart. There is an open issue on sigrok-pico about it. So I did a backup restore and factory tool started working again. So I used factory tool again and I am basically back at day one. I do find it a bit strange that the factory tool did not work anymore after flashing. Cannot really think of anything I could do at this point though. I think 5.15 kernel has writable ntfs support. I think ntfs-3g with write support has been stable for a long time by now. I cannot say I like the split file approach. Just to be clear, I think there is a good chance that the incomplete backups still manage to boot it is just that the backup being incomplete almost certainly breaks something. Wifi is sp6330 on this board, ddr3 are samsung k4b4g0446c

Armbian_22.08.0-trunk_Rk3318-box_jammy_edge_5.18.6_xfce_desktop.img is hair over 4GB so trying to flash that also fails. Seems like the files sizes are going to be a problem. I flashed Armbian_22.08.0-trunk_Rk3318-box_bullseye_edge_5.18.10_minimal.img to my X88 pro 10 with 4 gb ram and 32gb emmc after first erasing emmc(is this ok?) and I cannot get a beep out of it anymore. Soldered uart but I cannot seem to find a working baud rate. Tried every commonly used rate. It just shows as short beep of garbage with picocom after powering up. What should I do now? I got sent couple weeks old new firmware for this box if anyone is interested. The new fw has working 5 ghz wifi on the upper band and connecting bluetooth to speakers works unlike before. Youtube app crashed once on it so pretty sure the clocks are too high though. https://drive.google.com/u/0/uc?id=17sG7TnQbw3YH2XdHnwHDbgyzMRubwZtG&export=download https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1y9rBkpD_FenjvAwmiehnRL8OhzTt3mwX

Could not get this to work with neither of the first post images. X88 Pro 10 with in an tf card set up like this it does not do anything at all. How did you arrive at those seek values?