Maurizio Finesso

Hi @sicxnull @Nick A, as mentioned by @ventara X96Q vs 5.1 image of sicxnull has direct ethernet port and wireless working fine instead the Nick A 'Armbian-unofficial_25.05.0-trunk_X96q-ddr3-v5-1_bookworm_edge_6.12.11_xfce_desktop.img' has no ethernet or wifi working. I'm totally a newbie on these things, but thanks to the comunity I was able to use an mxq mini (S905X) working with Armbian and home assistant (of course i just used an image with armbian and after I load HA and tailscale. Now I would like to use the X96Q vs 5.1 for the other house. I know that the image of sicxnull works but I prefer to use Nick A. because armbian config as well most of the things are like the one on the other working tv box instead on the sicxnull image there is mate and a lot of commands or gui function are so different. I tried to understand what is different between the two images and github repository to be able to fix almost the ethernet port problem but I do not have enough acknowledge. My unix experience was with the AT&T unix system 5 and Solaris so very old OS and many years ago. Only now I'm coming back to unix world and I don't know anything about git, patch and so on. I read in a post that someone was able applying a patch but it is not clear to me how and where to apply patch, I have already installed Ubuntu in a Virtualbox and prepare everything to compile Armbian and tested that initial script start, ask me for board and other staff but after I stopped because I realized that I didn't understand what I'm doing. Probably with a standard sbc was easier. I promise that I will go ahead studying but it is hard and confused at the moment. If I can do something to help of course when I'm at home I will do it. Please, when you have free time give me some info on how to fix at least the direct ethernet port. armbianEnv.txt and boot.cmd looks same file. In both dtb folder there are same namefile.dtb include the 5.1 where armbianEnv point out but I don't know if they are same file in both distribution or are different? Wifi chip is the XR819 like I saw in other image with the v 5,1 Thanks for the great job you and the comunity are doing!

Hi guys and Happy Christmas. I found something that could be useful. I had trouble due to fake sd card that report fake capacity. Capacity declared 64 Gb real capacity 3.7 GB. H2testw (windows) will show you the real capacity. Don't trust if it is a known brand because there are companies with machine to fake SD card. After another problem that I found is not to see the boot partition after imaging SD card. I don't know why but you must be sure that your imaging program (balena etcher o pi imager or rufus) are run in admin mode. after that in any case if it doesn't appear you have to assign a letter drive (sometimes it is not assigned) I used aomei partition manager)

Hi @John Taylor, @SteeMan, unfortunatly it takes me time because I was not at home. I found that I can use the minimal or server version and only using Rufus. If I use Balena Etcher it doesn't create the fat32 partition named Boot. now I'm struggling because I would like to use the system on SD card but after that I do any changing for example IP from dynamic to static using armbian-config a lot of messages comes saying that EXT4FS is in read-only mode and I can use the system but not to install programs. I'm a little afraid to install on eemc because I have no android image. It is an old MXQ pro mini from leelbox.

Hi I'm trying to load the bookworm version on an amlogic S905X tv box that was working pretty fine with the bullseye version. What I'm not able to do is to have the boot partition where I can edit on SD Card. This happens with every of the compressed image file that are available for Amlogic tvbox. Probably I'm doing something wrong but after that I load the compressed file on SD card using Balena Etcher I don't find the boot partition readable in Windows. I'm using same procedure with older image (armbian 20.10 bullseye) that works fine. Please, help me to understand how to create it correctly. I have already look into docs but I don't find a solution.