I installed Armbian 23.11 Bookworm Kernel 6.1, Size: 482Mb, Release date: Nov 30, 2023. After installation, a CH340 based board was connected to my original Tinkerboard and recognized. Subsequently, I used armbian-config to provide the default desktop (Cinnamon flavor). Thereafter, the CH340 board is incompletely recognized. Specifically, no device is presented as /dev/ttyUSB?. The device appears in the list from lsusb, the kernel module ch341.ko loads, but no device in /dev. The forum search shows a previous instance of a similar issue many years back. I attempted to build the driver from wch.cn, but the kernel sources pulled from armbian-config were for the Linux tinkerboard 6.1.63-current-rockchip kernel and,so, a mismatch for the running kernel.
uname -a
Linux tinkerboard 6.1.68-current-rockchip #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Dec 13 17:39:30 UTC 2023 armv7l GNU/Linux
lsusb |grep -i ch34
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 1a86:7523 QinHeng Electronics CH340 serial converter
lsmod | grep -i ch34
ch341 20480 0
usbserial 28672 1 ch341