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The discussion here got me thinking, I thought at some point one of responsibilities of Board Maintainer was to keep the download page for their board updated?
So I double checked the job description, and that's not on there now.
Was that a simple oversight? Or maybe we changed policy about handing out WordPress access to all these new people to the project?
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Moved to P2P help.
dd does not verify the written image, which is why that's not the recommended way. Please read Getting Started docs and try again.
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https://www.armbian.com/newsflash/armbian-22-02-pig-release-announcement/
Please promote, share, etc. on social media!
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First and foremost, check power. Maybe you did not read all the way to the end of my previous post.
Also, please answer questions I asked.
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Well I only have (1) ROCKPro64, but I never had any such issues. Some other people have them as well and they are running reliable.
I am starting to wonder if you got some bad eMMC. I would carefully test them all, one by one, using f3 as described here. Take your time and make notes. And do report back what you find.
When you say 'testing' what do you mean? Moving them around? Or did you already test the flash with something like f3? Or ...?
You probably don't want to be on old BSP kernel (and probably don't need to). I think that is wrong path / misdiagnosis.
Actually, what are you using to power them? This could be lack of good power, too. Check those first, as they are most common (power and media). In fact make sure your power supply is good before testing the eMMC.
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Good morning, guise!
I made some major revisions all day yesterday after getting some helpful feedback from @rpardini. Which made it a little long again.
With a good night's sleep now and a fresh cup of coffee, I will keep polishing it up / paring it back down right up until you forcibly yank it from my clutches, but it is mostly ready to go I think.
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On 2/22/2022 at 6:26 PM, PointPubMedia said:
The problem seems to be related to some eMMC + some board
Did you buy those from PINE64 as well? Or some other source?
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I could be wrong, but I would suspect that the armbian-config script should actually install it. But maybe it's broken?
So, if anyone does figure it out, please do submit a patch!
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On 2/18/2022 at 12:54 PM, cnupy said:
Can you suggest wifi dongle that will work out-of-the-box on your image?
I came across https://github.com/morrownr/USB-WiFi recently in my travels, which seems to be a quite decent resource.
Of course, he mentions not a word about licensing. If you care about Free Software as I do, there are only a very small number of Wi-Fi adapters which can be run completely blob free. But that is a whole another discussion.
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Well, what you are describing sounds like user space / software issues, which has not to do with Armbian which is a build script and handle some low level things like boot loaders, kernel, etc. So I moved to P2P.
It sounds like you are proceeding in a reasonable fashion. Permissions, etc...
Maybe ask at Unbound forums (or mailing list?), assuming such place exists. IRC maybe?
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Double, triple check all basic things like Igor linked to. Power and media, it's almost always one of those problems.
On a more personal note, try and relax and enjoy the process. Like solving a puzzle.
Keep us posted on your progress, and good luck.
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On 2/5/2022 at 3:10 AM, schwar3kat said:
I would like to contribute to Armbian, and become a maintainer, but I am a beginner and I haven't been able to find a collaborator/mentor who knows what they are doing, and I am not confident that what I have done is acceptable.
I think a lot of us are in this boat. I am even in that boat.
I can't speak for Igor and the other guys, but my sense is that, for people who step up and try to help out, I think they do try and make a little time. I would not expect a lot, they are still very busy, etc. However, the needle may move from 'no time for anything' to 'maybe I can make a few minutes here and there.'
I would encourage everyone who is around the periphery like this to hang around on the forums and/or IRC. Come say hello and just idle when you are at your battle station.
There are also a few guys who are active on IRC in particular. You can ask questions in there and some times get answers. And some times not, but don't take it to heart. And it may take time, some times people answer hours later in IRC. There are also the forums, where you may have better luck.
Even at my low level of knowledge, I have been able to answer some people's questions some times. So please, do not be afraid to try and help out.
I would encourage more experienced members of the community to also help in answering questions, on the forums as well as IRC. Every single question answered takes a little bit of burden off developers.
Ideally we foster a community where power users and other interested parties can help each other learn and figure things out. I do have some more resources I would like to add to the docs as well about a few things.
On 2/20/2022 at 10:24 PM, Kalobok said:If it's not too late, I'd like to pick up OrangePi Zero Plus2 H3 as a maintainer.
It's never too late, newfriend.
Welcome aboard, and thanks! I will add you to the list. Some of above can apply to you, too it sounds like (and many others). 
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@everyone,
I have been thinking, just because new names are on the list does not necessarily mean that everything will be OK. Several people are new to the project, I have not seen them in IRC (in fairness, I'm not always on lately), who knows if things work out or not in the end. So please, if you are considering it, please throw your hat in the ring. Worst case is we have 2-3 maintainers for a given board. In which case the work can be done in a collaborative manner. If someone disappears due to life for some weeks, it would not be the end of the world. You get the picture.
Thanks again to everyone who is stepping up, it is greatly appreciated!
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I am not familiar with that hardware, maybe you need to add some kernel module or install some driver package?
Almost all packages (except some low level ones specific to ARM stuff like boot and kernel) come from upstream Debian anyway.
As for building, yes sure, in fact Armbian is actually a build system after all. We just happen to publish some pre-built images (which are the product of the build system).
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Now I am certainly no authority, but reading between the lines of what Igor said, I think that yes maybe submitting a PR against our build repo may indeed be the correct place?
On 2/11/2022 at 11:27 PM, ak_hepcat said:because... patching a diff file seems really incorrect.
Maybe it makes sense from the perspective that Armbian is actually a build system, rather than a distro in the normal sense, even though we do also publish pre-built images.
And so, those patches get applied to some sort of kernel source or another, during the build process.
On 2/14/2022 at 8:20 PM, ak_hepcat said:None of this patch process seems to be documented anywhere, so, I'm struggling with how to get changes made in the correct manner.
In my time here, I have gathered that the ARM Linux ecosystem is kind of wild and wooly, with random patches and fixes coming from here and there... Armbian in fact is an effort to try and unify all these things floating around on the Internet into some sort of cohesive whole. Which I guess is why we maintain our own patch sets.
Your efforts toward contribution are appreciated.
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On 2/14/2022 at 7:33 AM, Igor said:
We need to get some involevement from maintainers
I am not sure all the new Maintainers are even members of the appropriate group(s) (here on forums, I mean) to work with that group mention, above. I was meaning to make sure they were all aligned with Board Maintainers (which I have been keeping up to date) but did not get to it yet. I will try and do so ASAP (like tonight or tomorrow I guess).
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On 2/11/2022 at 3:09 PM, Pali said:
Just quick search in my emails found this link: https://github.com/armbian/build/issues/2861
Yes, a PR was not sent, only an Issue was filed. Because ebin is CSC, the Issue was closed, although a PR would have been (and I imagine, still is) welcomed.
Patches welcome...
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On 2/7/2022 at 12:41 PM, xwiggen said:
Orange PI PC Plus has RTL8189FTV wifi onboard (and 8GB emmc!), very stable I used it over a year as a wireless NAS.
Thanks for input. I have been compiling a similar table (as above) of Orange Pi devices for comparison, which I will post soon. I will add this one to the table.
On 2/7/2022 at 1:47 PM, krachlatte said:if you set the volume mixer to software it is no problem tuning the volume up and down, from volumino, but this could cause lossy output.
Yeah, I seemed to recall there was some downside. So I guess I will prefer to stick with my requirement of a HAT style DAC, as not only this is direct ALSA hardware control, but also you can get them with integrated amplifier, making it a sort of all-in-one solution.
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Maybe you need to do dist-upgrade?
Or maybe there is some reason(s) that board is still on that version. I am not first hand familiar, so you would need to go digging through issues / Jira (unless you get lucky and someone else pops in with the answer).
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I have no idea what that tool does exactly, but maybe try again with armbian-config and see if that works? If it does, maybe study both tools and see what they are doing differently.
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Maintaining board download pages
in Armbian Project Administration
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OK, I was more thinking about maintaining the info there, like adding their own name as Maintainer, etc., rather than about generating images. So I will remind people about this as a part of onboarding (and encourage others to do the same if I am not around).