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Made some progress today. For debugging, I built my own image with the Edge kernel (6.18). However, this time, the board did not even boot up and there was also no signal on HDMI. The last idea I had was to downgrade the kernel using armbian-config. But since the Ethernet is not working, I was trying to setup WiFi because armbian-config was trying to load apt cache but without internet, I cannot load anything. After multiple reboots, I slowly cached the apt. Then the armbian-config loaded. I downgraded the kernel from 6.12.60 to 6.6.63 and then the Ethernet started working fine! ☺️ Current version: $ uname -a Linux rockpi.dev.com 6.6.63-current-rockchip64 #2 SMP PREEMPT Fri Nov 22 14:38:37 UTC 2024 aarch64 GNU/Linux $ lsb_release -a Distributor ID: Debian Description: Armbian_community 26.2.0-trunk.44 trixie Release: 13 Codename: trixie I am now confident that somewhere after Kernel 6.6, the Ethernet is broken in Rockpi 4B.

Hi, I am posting this here to notify you about the serious networking performance issue on my Rockpi 4B board. Ever since I installed the Trixie release, the networking on the board has been poor/not working at all. I cannot even run an apt update If I try to connect via SSH, I get: root@rockpi:~# apt update 0% [Connected to github.armbian.com (185.199.110.153)] [Waiting for headers] [Waiting for headers]client_loop: send disconnect: Connection reset >ssh root@192.168.0.200 ssh_dispatch_run_fatal: Connection to 192.168.0.206 port 22: Connection timed out I don't know where to start / what to check here. When I turn on the board, it works barely at starting, very slowly before becoming unresponsive. Technical Details: Board: Rockpi 4B Armbian version: Armbian_community_26.2.0-trunk.44_Rockpi-4b_trixie_current_6.12.60_minimal Boot media: 250GB M.2 PCIE SSD Old Working: Armbian_community_25.2.0-trunk.195_Rockpi-4b_bookworm_current_6.6.66_minimal This issue started only after installing the Trixie images. The bookworm image works butter smooth and flawless. I am sorry if I am cross-posting this, but I couldn't find any known related issue on this board. Thanks in advance!

I tested all the DTBs from SM1 series and settled down with meson-sm1-h96-max.dtb ... meson-sm1-sei610.dtb also works fine...

Hello! I am facing the same 100M ethernet speed issue. The TP-Link switch I have auto-negotiates the Rockpi 4B to 100M link speed instead of 1000M. If I manually set it to 1000M in my switch, the link stays down. From ethtool The internet speed is affected too. It used to be around 98 ~ 104 Mbits/s I noticed this behaviour after upgrading from 23.8.1 to 23.11.1 EDIT: A combination of a new ethernet cable and Switch firmware update resolved the issue for me.

Hi @SteeMan I gave another shot of installing latest stable Armbian(Armbian_23.11.1_Aml-s9xx-box_jammy_current_6.1.63.img.xz) on TX3. This time both of my TX3(BZ) boxes booted up and installed smoothly in 1st attempt itself without any errors. Everything is working great so far 👍 👌 I wish the spirit of Armbian stays alive forever. It gave a second life and real purpose to these boxes 🙏 My heartfelt thanks to the entire Armbian team and unsung heroes of the Amlogic TV boxes testers 🙇

When I tried the latest trunk(Armbian_23.8.0-trunk.53_Aml-s9xx-box_lunar_edge_6.2.16_minimal), the box booted up but it was very buggy. There were some FS errors during storage expand on first boot and even the OS initialization failed. But the errors were gone after 3 restarts. Something broke after 23.5.1 release... 😟

For debugging, I copied over just the u-boot and dtb from another unofficial source. First, I replaced just the DTB and no change. But after replacing the u-boot, the box booted up but it was very laggy and had issues like keyboard inputs were randomly working, OS(Jammy) freezed, box was heating up etc... I have reverted back again to Armbian_23.02.2_Aml-s9xx-box_jammy_current_6.1.11

It seems to be updated correctly... There are mentions about image boot issues in the Armbian Leaflet #8 and AR-1765 in release changelog. May be these are all related to the issue we are facing 🤔

The size of u-boot-s905x2-s922 file is unchanged but the file count is different between 2 versions in boot partition...

After seeing @spirake 's thread, I was wondering about the Armbian version running in my other TV Box(Beelink GT1 Ultimate - S912). Luckily I had a copy of the image and flashed it to the USB drive. The image version is Armbian_23.02.2_Aml-s9xx-box_jammy_current_6.1.11 To my surprise, it worked! The box booted up and started working @SteeMan The Wifi, BT, HDMI, and Ethernet look good. RAM, Storage sizes look good. I even installed the Armbian to EMMC successfully. I guess something is wrong with the latest image version and therefore doesn't boot. Picture of Armbian_23.02.2_Aml-s9xx-box_jammy_current_6.1.11 up and running in Tanix TX3-H

Hi @SteeMan I checked both the server and minimal versions from the latest available release: Armbian_23.5.1_Aml-s9xx-box_jammy_current_6.1.30_minimal.img.xz Armbian_23.5.1_Aml-s9xx-box_jammy_current_6.1.30.img.xz https://redirect.armbian.com/aml-s9xx-box/archive/Armbian_23.5.1_Aml-s9xx-box_jammy_current_6.1.30_minimal.img.xz I tried all the DTBs from SM1 series.

Hi, I am trying to install/boot latest Armbian Jammy minimal on Tanix TX3-H box without success. Technical Details: Box: Tanix TX3-H (BZ) CPU: S905X3 Memory: 4 GB Storage: 64 GB Box: https://androidpctv.com/review-tanix-tx3-s905x3-opinion/ Board Images: Attached I created bootable both usb and sdcard but the box boots into a dark blank screen. I followed the Amlogic boxes instructions but no luck. Tried the different DTBs from the Meson SM1 series, none booted up. Any guidance on using Armbian on this box will be very helpful and appreciated 🙏