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Have just tested Forky (Debian) release on both the 2A and the 2F, and in both cases the wireless driver survived an upgrade. I also tested the Plucky release on the 2A, and the wireless driver did not survive the stock upgrade. I have not tested the Plucky version on the 2F yet. Also it should be noted that the cron implementation in the Forky version for the 2A is fouled up. Any ordinary user's crontab has to be edited by root. Bad permissions on a number of files. Nice to know that at least the wireless adapter problem has attracted someone's interest.

Finally able to solve the problem. The aic8800 wifi modules and others associated with the wifi driver are deleted when upgrading the kernel. I found Debian packages on radxa's github site downloaded the firmware and usb modules and then reinstalled them from the /tmp directory after kernel upgrade but before rebooting. While this does work, it is a sloppy hack. It seems to me that there ought to be some way to retain the wifi drivers on upgrade, but it will take a more knowledgeable person to do that. The same hack allows the wifi on the Rock-2A to survive a kernel upgrade. Wired Ethernet of the Rock-2A survives a kernel upgrade without issue.

Thanks Igor. Will see what I can do🙂

I have been trying to run the bookworm minimal image for the Radxa Rock 2F with poor results. Wifi stops working after an "armbian-upgrade" and after apt upgrade. Doing an nmcli -p r results in WIFI-HW missing response. It seems to me that after the upgrade, something is wrong with the aic8800 driver module. Unfortunately I am too ignorant to be of much help, but any suggestions would be most welcome. Thank you.

No boot, or no ethernet on the July 20,2024 Trixie build.

Still no Ethernet with July 13, 3024 Trixie minimal.

The July 3, 2024 Trixie minimal does not boot, or at least the Ethernet connection does not work.