This will be a huge difference, so be open for learning, have a lot of patience.
https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Board-Support-Rules/
One of the key challenges we face is that maintaining older hardware is both time-consuming and costly. With limited financial and community support, the resources we have are already stretched thin across the entire project.
Our team is very small—currently, we have only one dedicated maintainer for the Allwinner software stack that is focused into latest 64bit Allwinner family (H6/H6xxx). Other projects often face similar constraints, often relying on a single contributor who can do anything. For example, in our collaboration with LibreELEC (LE), we benefit from some shared efforts, but both sides are still primarily driven by individual volunteers working on a best-effort basis. If priorities shift, progress can be delayed significantly—and unfortunately, Armbian doesn't have the capacity to pick up.
I’m sharing this openly in the hope that it raises awareness. Personally, I would love to see continued support for legacy devices. But to make that happen, we need to ask: who is willing and able to invest weeks or months each year required to maintain these older platforms?
What you can do? Try to understand how this works, connect with people that share your problem (all similar board owners with interest that it is maintained) - invest time to learn.
Probably USB ports are just not enabled - check this: https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Armbian-Config/System/#device-tree-overlays
Hi catotinha,
Once you know the ip that the router assigned to you (if you go to the settings of the router where you have the devices connected, and see there what the Orange Pi is) just make it in Windows that you are on the same network with the command line with administrator privileges "ssh root@192.168.1????. Then enter "root" and "1234". Then just ask ChatGPT for help and a whole world of possibilities opens up. I was just yesterday asking him for help, since mine, from time to time, freezes". So good luck, and please share your experience. It may also be useful to me. Big hug,
