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Megous orangepi-5.2 branch is already on 5.2.5 (so Armbians too) and running fine

Feel free to build your own image using the build script including the latest changes at any time

As for myself it IS about the GBe port

Unfortunate. I wanted to give this board a shot as well sooner or later...

Yes. The Allwinner H6 SoC with its CPU is ARM64 architecture.

Odd. Seems like the debs are behind. You may upgrade to dev branch, however there will not be any official support anymore.Though as for my experience I never had issues using dev on Allwinner H3 SoC If you do not want to do that there are a few options: - Wait until someone fixes the debs - Go to https://github.com/armbian/build, clone the script and create your own packages - Go to https://laet.pw/index.php/s/M2eXJKll5sdnlBN and grab the needed packages as I had boredom and built/uploaded a few packages today and maybe I'll even update this share from time to time. I'd recommend option 1 as it is the safest. Never trust unofficial sources.

No thanks.

OrangePi Zero: My very first SBC. I do not really remember why I bought it but it started with DietPi. It served Pihole for my network. Then Dietpi dropped their support for OrangePi boards and Pihole dropped their support for older Debian distributions. So a new OS was needed and that is the reason I landed her and I have to tell I learned a LOT about all the things thanks to Armbian OrangePi One Plus: Well the main reason were the quite interesting specifications and the low price. Even though this board (or Allwinner H6 at all) is poorly designed I am not that disappointed about it. It very rarly failed on me, worked most of the time really nice. It serves data sharing, another One Plus is for testing purpose of new images and features. OrangePi One: As a nice replacement for the OrangePi Zero. Better voltage regulator and no crappy wireless onboard for the same price.Two of those I prepared with Armbian and Pihole and gave them away to friends. In the meantime I have another pair of Ones to prepare and give them away somewhen in the future as well. Kind a to spread the word about SBCs, Pihole and last but not least Armbian. Well... that's it. Quite a short list but much text ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ A board I always wanted to have but did not have a chance yet is the OrangePi Zero Plus. GBe and Allwinner H5 SoC. Maybe sometime in the future...

No worries =)

I have an OrangePi One running user-built image with 5.2.1 kernel before the mentioned change above and is booting flawless. An OrangePi One Plus also booting Linux 5.2.0 without a problem.

It is development, so no worries here. If the dev branch reaches next at any near or far future time upgrades should (must?) work properly.

It is...kind of. Remove the "" from yes and no and you are good to go. Anyways as stated above a freshly built image from the script will work, regardless of wireguard.

I could modprobe wireguard with this image, so I assume that it is included ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I built an image for the OPi1+ today and it works well. Default options, so it includes wireguard.

Did you power the board the same way beforehand? May be unlikely but is there any chance to measure the voltage on the USB port of the board to see if there is too much voltage drop across the wires and the board? Btw on eBay you can get an USB to DC 4,0-1,7 barrel connector for about a dollar or two including shipping from China.

My guess is that both Debian and Ubuntu will be supported the same until the board is marked EOS. Unless one distribution decides to introduce hugh changes that break everything and is beyond repair. Unlikely scenario though.

Ubuntu and Debian are not identical... Well, they are kind of in the point of view of armbian as they share the same kernel, same built script, U-Boot and so on...Different distributions though. Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic) is a so called long term support release which comes with fives years support. EOL is 2023. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases Debian Stretch will be supported until 2022. Check https://wiki.debian.org/de/LTS You may want to wait for Debian Buster being released in about a week. Ubuntu may have one additional year of support but in your choice you should consider a few things. Ubuntu featuring newer packages in comparison to Debian. Though their origin is Debians testing branch. Also just a fraction of all available packages in Ubuntu are maintained and updated by Ubuntu themselves. Universe and multiverse repositories may or may not receive (security) updates depending on their maintainer. tl;dr imho: Go for Debian.

Your router offering DHCP I guess. It is kind a rare issue but try to use static addresses that are NOT in the address pool of the DHCP. For example your router/DHCPd is 192.168.1.1, its DHCP address range is .1.10 to 1.100, then try to give your boards 1.101, 1.102 and so on...

Typo: The correct link seems to be http://ix.io/1MjF

Yes. After some time this will spit out a link to some useful debug information which you shall provide here.

Try to get a hand on another monitor which natively features HDMI for testing. ☝

Maybe you are trying to use some kind a HDMI-VGA adapter. My experience: Don't. Does not work so well.

There will probably no version bump until it is known to work. You do not need to wait for a bump anyways if you are using the build system. This always includes the latest commits, just take a look here from time to time: https://github.com/armbian/build/commits/master Maybe @megi is on vacation as the last commit to orangepi-5.1 and orangepi-5.2 branch was 16 days ago. The development might be focused on 5.2 anyways as soon as the new version is officially released.

What about OPi 0+ H5? Offering GBE, 64bit quad core, officially supported by Armbian and dirt cheap https://www.armbian.com/orange-pi-zero-plus/ https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Orange-Pi-Zero-Plus-H5-Chip-Quad-Core-Open-source-Cortex-A53-512MB-development-board-beyond/32828347476.html?spm=a2g0o.cart.0.0.68e43c00J6oKjx If you need even more power staying at low price, could accept the sacrifice in reliability and get a PCIe which is broken by design you can go for a H6 based board like OrangePi OnePlus. The H6 SoC is clocked with 1,8 GHz. All H6 boards are still in development stage and do not come with support. I have two OPi 1+ running about since when they were released and besides the very first issues like not having ethernet working they now are working quite well for me. If unsure go for the H5 SoC.

Feel free to give the dev branch a shot and see if that solves your problems. RK3399 SoC is WIP anyways, so no official support. Either go to https://www.armbian.com/orange-pi-rk3399/ and scroll to the very bottom or grab the build script here https://github.com/armbian/build and build your own image including the latest changes. Btw. RK3399 forums are here: https://forum.armbian.com/forum/33-rockchip-3399/