Mark Waples

Nick, appreciated - seems this box is not well supported in linux well the wi-fi anyway. Until linux drivers come along in the future, there must be a better box that has full linux/Armbian support? Any recomendations please? Mark

Hi Nick, Images of PCB Mark

Hi Nick, the wifi Chip is as follows: SV6256P Single-Chip Dual Band 802.11 a/b/g/n MAC/BB/Radio with USB/SDIO Interface Supports calibration algorithm to handle no-idealities effects from CMOS RF block WFA features: WEP/TKIP/WPA/WPA2; WMM/WMM PS STBC in RX mode A-MPDU Tx & Rx Support immediate Block-Ack AP/STA mode: Soft-AP Single power supply,type 3.3V and the Bluetooth Chip is as follows: BR8052A01 And the LED driver chip is a AIP650E0 If it helps others I will post some images of both sides of the PCB Mark

Hi Nick, I have attached the dsmeg file as requested: dmesg.txt I guess its all the following that are not working Wifi HDMI Audio & SPDIF IR Remote Not sure about the following: (Untested) Ethernet Bluetooth OpenGL & Hardware Video Decoding Kind regards, Mark ps: I forgot to say: is it safe to sudo apt update ; sudo apt upgrade -y As I am not sure if this will break the custom image??

Hi Nick, Thank you for your reply. I have tried the image and have successfully loaded ARMBIAN from the SD so thank you for that! A lifesaver! It hasn't overwritten the EMMC and currently only runs just from the SD which at the moment is not a bad thing while testing. I guess at some point I would want the box to boot armbian from the EMCC - I am not sure If that's possible. I was wondering if the Armbian image could support the boxes inbuilt WIFI? It works on ethernet and a USB Wifi Dongle but not the inbuilt wifi. Lastly I only want to run one software package when the box boots, is it a case of just adding the package by the normal means (Curl)? And then If I wish to repeat the exercise for another box I can just image the SD and use that to create a new box? Kind regards, Mark

Hi there, Forgive me but I am a novice in Armbian. What I would like to do is install armbian on the T95Max box I have purchased. I have attached a pic of the Box and it's specs. I have tried to "upgrade" using the SD method but couldn't make that recognise the SD card even with the original firmware "T95max-H618-A9.img" that I sourced using Google. I have also tried to get the T95 Max recognised via the USB method but the box wasn't even recognised using that method either. I used the "Universal_ADB_Driver_v6.0" drivers but that made no difference. If I could get the correct method sorted and an upgradeable firmware for Ambian that would be a great help. I can compile the firmware if needed but I am unsure of what Ambian image would be the best starting point. Any help would be gratefully received. TIA