Thanks to all for thoughts and replies! I have several threads going at the Inovato forum as well, I was mostly optimistic about getting a pure-Armbian build with working WiFi. The Inovato founder reports that he was unable to get WiFi working on pure Armbian (https://forum.inovato.com/post/is-support-now-in-mainline-armbian-12778776?pid=1336353539), which contrasts with the comments in this Armbian PR that makes it seem like WiFi was working. I did not have working WiFi when building Armbian checked out to the commit in the PR, so I was reaching out to see if there were any further details.
@SteeMan yes, I don't mean to intrude -- I was asked to move conversation either to Discord or here so as to not clutter the PR at GitHub, and I chose here as I'm more facile with forums than Discord. Hope that's okay!
@Gunjan Gupta All of my builds have been on 6.1 (as I was curious about a build with ZFS support eventually). Specifically 6.1.45 in the case of armbian with Inovato's patches (90c05bac23ceabb54f897342ce20d38e21bc8e1f with https://www.inovato.net/build/quadra.patch) and 6.1.62 in the case of Armbian main (inovato-quadra, minimal, console-only, no other options modified that I can recall). I will try with edge! I'm away from the device for the next week but will reply back soon.
Thank you both, I greatly appreciate your time!