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@Ducdanh Nguyen your box might have secured boot enabled. You’ll need to compile an image with this secure boot patch

@dale I remember wifi stopped working once. You could try this branch and see if it works for you. I haven’t tested it on my x98h yet. On transpeed the a/v audio has issues so I haven’t released images. https://github.com/NickAlilovic/build/tree/v20250407

@Ducdanh Nguyen I don’t write the mainline linux kernel or patches. You should ask the sunxi developers or Piotr Oniszczuk aka warpme. Allwinner does not support open source mainline Linux. Most of the work is reversed engineered by a very few smart people that give their free time to Linux community. Android uses a very old modified Linux kernel so it takes a lot of work to update drivers. Sometimes these drivers have no source code or documentation. tv boxes are a whole different beast. Components are cheap. If you buy the same model tv box they might have different wifi, memory, emmc chips and sometimes the cpu is not allwinner at all. if you want to have a perfect running tv box you’ll need to learn how to tweak the dts and edit the Linux kernel source code. https://oftc.catirclogs.org/linux-sunxi/2025-08-24 https://github.com/warpme

@Piotr syou can try this build it’s based on the 6.14 kernel. Only issue I know of is audio using the a/v port. https://github.com/NickAlilovic/build/tree/v20250407

@ARx8if need help fixing the sd card. Login to IRC and ask the sunxi guys. https://oftc.catirclogs.org/linux-sunxi/2025-08-20

@Trung Nguyễn git clone https://github.com/NickAlilovic/build.git --branch v20250306 cd build ./compile.sh choose "Do not change kernel configuration" choose "Show CSC/WIP/EOS/TVB" choose "I understand and agree" choose "x98h" choose "edge" rest is up to you. Your image should be in output/images directory.

@buzz89 never heard of it. If you have root access you probably can.

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@Piotr si guess this problem doesn’t exist with miniarch. I’ll have to update my build to 6.16 kernel with warpme patches. I’m busy right now so it might take awhile.

@ARx8 try miniarch. https://github.com/warpme/miniarch/releases/tag/f3b14fbae071 I think this box is having the same issue as yours?

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@buzz89In oranges zero2 dts it has a 3.3v regulator defined as reg_dcdce. There’s only 5v defined in the vontar dts. You can add this to your dts reg_dcdce: dcdce { regulator-always-on; regulator-min-microvolt = <3300000>; regulator-max-microvolt = <3300000>; regulator-name = "vcc-eth-mmc"; }; https://linux.googlesource.com/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf/+/refs/tags/v6.9-rc2/arch/arm64/boot/dts/allwinner/sun50i-h616-orangepi-zero2.dts you can borrow code off these boards as well https://linux-sunxi.org/index.php?search=RTL8211F&title=Special%3ASearch&go=Go if you can extract your android dts for more clues.

@ARx8X98h has a similar AIC8800D wifi chip. You could probably use the wifi section from x98h dts. I have never had problems with my sdcard. Maybe it’s a bad solder joint?

RTL8211F Is an external gigabit chip. Maybe this post will help.

@ARx8 try using the x98h image.

@Piotr s im using the same warpme patches so it’s odd that it doesn’t boot. To show more information on your console screen change your loglevel to 7 in armbianEnv.txt. The file is located at the root directory of your sdcard.

@Piotr sTry this image https://github.com/NickAlilovic/build/releases/download/20250306/Armbian-unofficial_25.05.0-trunk_X96q-lpddr3_bookworm_edge_6.12.11_xfce_desktop.img.xz to fix Ethernet you need to edit this file https://github.com/NickAlilovic/build/blob/v20250306/patch/u-boot/u-boot-h616/159-add-x96-q-lpddr3-v1.3-defconfig.patch. Change 16 to 0. Then compile a new image. +&mdio1 { + rmii_phy: ethernet-phy@0 { + compatible = "ethernet-phy-ieee802.3-c22"; + reg = <0>; + }; +}; more information can be found here

@buzz89

Wifi chip model?

@zink try these images https://github.com/NickAlilovic/build/releases/tag/20250306

Try this image https://github.com/NickAlilovic/build/releases/download/20250306/Armbian-unofficial_25.05.0-trunk_X98h_bookworm_edge_6.12.11_xfce_desktop.img.xz

@mdidis do non secure boot images show any output. The one posted is an android uboot output.

@dale there’s a new patch to fix boards without external 32k clock. I haven’t tested it yet. https://github.com/warpme/minimyth2/commit/728a14a73924e349fe88fb4def7e5f50a79aed5c

@mdidisDid you compile with the secure boot patch? Because it sounds like that’s your issue. If secure boot is not enabled you won’t get any output from your serial interface. post your dts. I’ll tell you the correct gpio for wifi and emmc.