Igor Peruchi

We keep several oldies in the automated testing facility and Cubietruck is almost identical to Bananapi M1 and it works perfectly well:
https://github.com/armbian/os?tab=readme-ov-file#cubietruck
I would put my bet on wrong / not sufficient powering. Which is still there and those (old) topics are still valid.
 
 
Old boards are fine! I have several boxes of them and might sent them to a museum one day  We are just too small team / project to face with several hundred different devices. Old boards should, in theory, works well, but silent (as nobody monitor / maintain them) regressions comes to the code.
 
I hope someday dedicated retro hardware section emerges on Armbian forums and further prolong life of those devices. We did / do what we can ... 
 

Are you using the latest Debian Bookworm Minimal, or the more complete Ubuntu Jammy Server?
 
In either case, post the result of "lsmod". Run "ip a" and see if there's any "wlan" interface.
 
Run (root) nmtui to try to activate wifi. If nmtui is not available, run "apt install network-manager".
 
Or try it "armbian-config" (apt install armbian-config)
 
If you are using Debian Bookworm, try with Ubuntu Jammy instead... it worked for me yesterday, with Orange Pi Zero and wifi.

The minimal builds are really minimal.  They don't include armbian config by default.  You need to apt install armbian-config if you want it.

https://github.com/robertojguerra/orangepi-zero-full-setup/blob/main/README2.md