It is expected since the only way to keep out-of-tree modules during kernel upgrades is DKMS, and it doesn't work properly due to kernel upgrade scheme that is used in Armbian.
Bummer says it all. What an attitude. I get sooooo sick of this! Unbelievable!
When ping works but SSH through Ethernet not then most probably the board is stuck in u-boot! You won't believe it but we test the stuff we provide. So if you want to do more than just complaining then grab a serial console and provide the boot log so we can reproduce the issue IF there is one and it's not just the usual issue called insufficient power supply (Zero uses Micro USB which is known to cause problems) or broken burning process or SD card.
Why do you hijack a thread about Wi-Fi related problems when you've not been able to even configure WI-Fi since your installation does not even boot?!
Yeah, we definitely 'need' more fragmentation. If I look at http://orangepi.club/forumdisplay.php?fid=4 and https://github.com/SvenKayser/Sambooca-Kernel-H3/commits/sun8i I already got the idea, thanks.
Why on earth should be an Armbian forum be needed somewhere else? There IS already one and that's this one here! What's wrong with trying to concentrate development efforts in one place?
And now I'm pretty confused. When I did some performance/consumption tests a while back I tested with various Raspberries and got sysbench results as follows: RPi Zero: 915s, RPi B+: 1311s, RPi 2: 192s and RPi 3: 120 seconds. The latter result is confirmed eg by this RPi 2 with RPi 3 comparison.
So how on earth is it possible that $7 Orange Pi Zero outperforms even RPi 3 and needs only 117.5 seconds?!
Welcome to ARMBIAN Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS 4.9.0-sun8i
System load: 0.22 Up time: 29 min
Memory usage: 11 % of 241Mb IP: 192.168.83.162
Usage of /: 16% of 4.0G
Last login: Fri Nov 11 14:58:56 2016 from 192.168.83.91
tk@orangepizero:~$ uname -a
Linux orangepizero 4.9.0-sun8i #4 SMP Fri Nov 11 13:03:52 CET 2016 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux
tk@orangepizero:~$ lsb_release -c
Codename: xenial
tk@orangepizero:~$ cat /etc/armbian-release
# PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
BOARD=orangepizero
BOARD_NAME="Orange Pi Zero"
VERSION=5.24
LINUXFAMILY=sun8i
BRANCH=dev
ARCH=arm
tk@orangepizero:~$ sysbench --test=cpu --cpu-max-prime=20000 --num-threads=4 run
sysbench 0.4.12: multi-threaded system evaluation benchmark
Running the test with following options:
Number of threads: 4
Doing CPU performance benchmark
Threads started!
Done.
Maximum prime number checked in CPU test: 20000
Test execution summary:
total time: 117.5139s
total number of events: 10000
total time taken by event execution: 469.8815
per-request statistics:
min: 46.72ms
avg: 46.99ms
max: 288.34ms
approx. 95 percentile: 46.77ms
Threads fairness:
events (avg/stddev): 2500.0000/0.71
execution time (avg/stddev): 117.4704/0.04
