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Oh look, complete crickets on yet another support post. Still haven't figured this problem out.

For WiFi/Bluetooth: I just used the Ubuntu image from the official Orange Pi website because I couldn't get any WiFi dongles to work with this crappy Armbian OS. For booting from NVME: After you flash the SSD with the image you want to use go to OrangePi-Config and under the Boot options install boot to NVME. After that you should be good to turn off your OPi and remove the SD Card and then boot from the SSD. Hope this helps, because Lord knows you won't get anybody else to help you on these forums.

Still haven't figured out what the hell is wrong with Armbian. I've tried multiple dongles and none of them work with Armbian but some work with Ubuntu, so I'm going with Ubuntu from now on because at least I can use WiFi with that OS.

EDIT: I am using the Armbian 23.5.5 Orange Pi 5 Plus Jammy Legacy 5.10.160 Gnome Desktop image Let me preface this with I am a Linux noob and this is one step below black magic voodoo to me. For some reason my Orange Pi 5 Plus USB 3.0 ports are no longer functioning. I setup my OPi at my testing station and everything was working fine (except I couldn't get my WiFi dongle to work but that's a different post) After I turned off my Orange Pi 5 Plus, disconnected it and set it back up where it was going to be staged now the USB 3.0 ports no longer function. Putting in the "lsusb" command shows all my ports, including the non-functional USB 3.0 ports, but I can't get the 3.0 ports to work. The USB 2.0 ports are completely fine and functional. Does anyone know why the USB 3.0 ports stopped working and how to get them functioning again?

I've been messing with my OPi5+ for several days now and I cannot for the life of me get my USB Wifi dongle to work. When I input " lsusb " the OPi shows my dongle as plugged in but it just doesn't work. I've tried to compile the Wifi dongle drivers (RTL8188eu) manually but that fails with a "python2 error". I've tried updating the Armbian headers and firmware and nothing works. I've tried both the OPi OS and Armbian OS and on both images the board will just not read my Wifi dongle. My USB Bluetooth dongle Plugs and Plays just fine, only the Wifi dongle is inoperable. So my question is how in the hell do I get the Edimax N150 USB Wifi dongle to work with my OPi 5+? Any help would be greatly appreciated. (P.S. I also tried the latest vanilla Ubuntu release with my OPi5+ and that OS wouldn't even boot, or at least my monitor screen kept saying "No signal detected" for 15 mins after I booted the OPi5+ before I gave up and switched to the Armbian OS)