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I disabled Armbian kernel upgrades to stay at Armbian 23.11.1 until Armbian 24 stabilizes. Yesterday I unfroze the kernel upgrades to upgrade to 24.2.1. I run: apt update apt upgrade apt dist-upgrade Apt update says All packages are up to date. shows nothing. What did I miss?

I have a orange pi3 lts. I tried to install either minimal ether gnome version. Wireless is configured and working . I tried to execute command sudo systemctl enable ssh and reboot but sshd is down always and screen show always desktop orange PI without any network connection. I tried to use also u armbian-config but ssh is always down and network is down . Any attempts is not working . In addition thr desktop interface is the same in minimal and gnome version .... very strange

After an "apt upgrade", the kernel was switched to "Linux 6.6.16-current-sunxi64" (Armbian 24.2.1 Jammy). On the WiFi side, no problem, but for Ethernet, it no longer seems to detect the link. So I downgraded to "Linux 6.1.77-legacy-sunxi64" with armbian-config. After this, the Ethernet works again. Do you have any idea where this could come from? And if this can be fixed in future versions?

I updated my system to the newest kernel and lost all WiFi. What is the deal???

As the title says. I can not get PWM to work. I can type gpio mode 2 pwm and no error. But when I try to access it from Klipper (3D Printer Software and Firmware) it won't work. However if I use gpio 3, in software, gpio 4 turns on. Please help me out here. Thanks, Kevin

Hello, I have Orange Pi 3 LTS with Armbian 22.*.1 5.15.80-sunxi64. It have been working well for about a year, but after upgrading to 23.8.16.1.47-current-sunxi64 network interfaces stop working at all. I can't downgrade kernel with arbian-config because it need internet access. Here is output from armbianmonitor: armbianmonitor.txt Could you please guide me how to solve this issue?

I use Armbian_23.5.1_Orangepi3-lts_bookworm_current_6.1.30. I'm trying to download in armbian-config kernel headers, but linux-headers-5.15.93-sunxi64 are downloaded. How to download kernel headers 6.1.30.?

Hello! How to turn off Wi-Fi and Bluetooth devices to reduce power consumption? armbianmonitor -U -> result in attachment. Thank you. armbian-hardware-monitor.log

My Orange Pi 3 LTS with Armbian 23.11.1 Jammy with Linux 6.1.63-current-sunxi64 is showing high load, but low CPU. The SBC crashed overnight. When I run htop, the following lines show state D: root lscpu root /bin/bash /usr/lib/armbian/armbian-hardware-optimization start root grep -q \<ondemand\> /sys/devices/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_governors load average: 4.00, 4.00, 4.00 System load: 100% CPU usage: less than 1% sar -u 5 Linux 6.1.63-current-sunxi64 (hostname) 12/31/2023 _aarch64_ (4 CPU) 03:41:54 PM CPU %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle 03:41:59 PM all 0.50 0.00 0.35 0.00 0.00 99.15 I'm up to date with software (sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y). I am unable to kill -9 the offending processes. When I try to reboot, I get locked out of ssh, but SBC does not reboot, and keeps replying to pings. I have to end up pulling the plug to get it to reboot. After plugging it back in, it starts out without the problem, but the problem resurfaces shortly thereafter. My other three OPI3LTS with Armbian 23.11.1 Jammy with Linux 6.1.63-current-sunxi64 are not having this issue. Thank you for your assistance, and Happy New Year!

I have a problem flashing the oranges. I flash it with a 32G SD card with Linux with a network cable directly to the switch. After the process is finished, I turn off the orange and remove the card and turn it on again, but the orange LED (communication) on the network card stops working. This occurs in every 10 oranges flashed, 1 or two this type of error occurs. What is the solution?

Hi all, I'm using an OrangePi 3 LTS with Armbian 23.11.1 bookworm current 6.1.63 xfce installed on a microsd card. Unlike some previous version I tried, now the wifi works correctly. As for the bluetooth, it works... every other time. That is, on one boot it will load, in the subsequent one it will fail, and so forth consistently. I'm not an expert, so if you need some output from some program, please tell me which. By now I can say that when it doesn't work, the bt icon in the systray doesn't appear, however if I try ps aux | grep blue* I find that obexd and blueman-applet are running. And if I launch blueman-manager I get an error dialog saying that the bluez daemon is not running, and that it probably means that no bluetooth adapter was found or that the bluetooth daemon wasn't started (I'm translating back from Italian). But, at the subsequent reboot, it works again, and over and over... I've found this post which might be related, as the issue seems similar, but it's on a different board and with a different iso, so I really don't know. Can anyone help please? Thank you Tiziano

Hello! Board: Orange Pi 3 LTS SATA-USB3: Bus 002 Device 003: ID 152d:0578 JMicron Technology Corp. / JMicron USA Technology Corp. JMS578 SATA 6Gb/s Speed after load: sudo dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/null status=progress ... (5,8 GB, 5,4 GiB), 50 s, 115 MB/s Speed after spindown: sudo dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/null status=progress ... (4,5 GB, 4,2 GiB), 71 s, 62,9 MB/s After reboot the speed is again 115 MB/s The drive does not respond to changes in Power Management settings. Help me solve the problem. Sometimes the disk cannot start after spindown. Thanks!

How to enable kvm/virtualisation on orange pi 3 lts? I want run windows for arm on qemu with kvm, but in the kernel there is no kvm module . How i can add this module to kernel? I know that the allwinner h6 has support for virtualisation.

Bookworm 6.1 kernel Cinnamon terminal is unusable. The terminal screen flickers and the written text blinks with the cursor blink. Occasionally the terminal goes black. I am using an ancient 1024x768 screen. Is this the root cause, or is the terminal broken in Cinnamon?

Hello! I am on the forum to ask you some questions that I am not able to find the answers to. I bought a 3D printer kit on Aliexpress.com including an Orange pi 3 LTS board. On the card there is an operating system installed and several applications for the printer. The first problem is that: I would like to activate WIFI on the card. I tried to do this via 2 different ways. The first is with the following command sudo orangepi-config. I go to the network/wifi menu. I chose my WIFI network. I enter the network key and I receive the following error code: Could not activate connection: Activation failed: IP configuration could not be reserved (not available address, timeout, etc.) I also tried the following commands: nmcli dev wifi nmcli dev wifi connect (ssid) password (pass) This command gives me the following error code: Error: Connection activation failed: (7) Secrets were required, but not provided. I went to the 3D printer forum and talked about it. The advice I got from several members is to do a new and clean installation from scratch. The second problem is that: After several days of work and inconclusive research, I am not able to do a factory reset and reinstall an operating system that would suit me better. I followed the steps to reformat an SD card with SD Card Formatter, install the operating system image on a SD card with Win32DisckImager. I inserted the SD card into the orange pi 3 LTS. I connected via SSH with Putty and followed the following tutorial: https://jumptuck.com/blog/2023-02-13-install-linux-orange-pi-3-lts-emmc/. Type nand-sata-install to begin the installation process. Choose to boot from eMMC, choose EXT4, then accept the warning that the process will erase all contents of the eMMC memory. After a few minutes you will be given the option to power down the board. Do so and remove the SD Card. Installation of Linux on the eMMC is now complete I would like if someone, if these possible please, to give me the right steps to follow to activate WIFI and or reinstall a clean operating system of my choice for my Orange pi 3 LTS? Thank you in advance for your response. Sincerely,

Apt lists Armbian 23.8.3 as upgradable but refuses to upgrade. According to apt-cache the base files for 23.8.3 have not been updated for Orangepi3-lts. Is this the case or do I have a local problem with my install? --------------- # apt-cache policy base-files base-files: Installed: 23.8.1-bullseye Candidate: 23.8.1-bullseye Version table: *** 23.8.1-bullseye 500 500 http://apt.armbian.com bullseye/main arm64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 11.1+deb11u8 500 500 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye/main arm64 Packages

Hi! I've just downloaded the Armbian_23.8.3_Orangepi3-lts_bookworm_current_6.1.53_cinnamon_desktop.img onto a 16GB SD card, plugged it to the Opi and started it up. Then I connected to it using SSH, and it works just fine. But when I tried VNCViewer (actually, MobaXTerm on Windows), nothing is displayed but a message saying that Cinnamon crashed and "you are currently running in fallback mode". I've tried to install another window manager, like lightdm with xface4 with no success. I also tried to remove cinnamon and reinstall it, again to no avail. I did the same to x11 and again couldn't have any desktop manager running. Then I burned the original img file again and proceeded an update/upgrade on the OS, but nothing happened. I also spent the whole day on google and reading docs and only got more frustrated. Any ideas?

I want to use the OPI3, but I need 2 uarts, in 26 headers there is 1 availabe, but I need one more. Is possible to disable the debug, and use it for my application?

I'm using Armbian 23.02 Bullseye CLI. I didn't want the HDMI to show the boot system log and TTY1 login screen. According to the armbian documentation, I changed "console=both" to "console=serial" in /boot/armbianEnv.txt. I checked /boot/boot.cmd related to console, and I confirmed that this modification is OK, but it cannot start, uboot printed "Starting kernel..." After that, there is no output, and the power supply is only 5V 170mA. The following is the printing of the serial port. If anyone has been in a similar situation, please give me a little help, thank you very much. U-Boot SPL 2022.07-armbian (Feb 17 2023 - 22:32:08 +0000) DRAM: 2048 MiB Trying to boot from MMC2 NOTICE: BL31: v2.2(debug):a04808c1-dirty NOTICE: BL31: Built : 22:32:01, Feb 17 2023 NOTICE: BL31: Detected Allwinner H6 SoC (1728) NOTICE: BL31: Found U-Boot DTB at 0xc086990, model: OrangePi 3 LTS INFO: ARM GICv2 driver initialized NOTICE: PMIC: Probing AXP805 NOTICE: PMIC: AXP805 detected INFO: BL31: Platform setup done INFO: BL31: Initializing runtime services INFO: BL31: cortex_a53: CPU workaround for 855873 was applied INFO: BL31: Preparing for EL3 exit to normal world INFO: Entry point address = 0x4a000000 INFO: SPSR = 0x3c9 U-Boot 2022.07-armbian (Feb 17 2023 - 22:32:08 +0000) Allwinner Technology CPU: Allwinner H6 (SUN50I) Model: OrangePi 3 LTS DRAM: 2 GiB Core: 50 devices, 14 uclasses, devicetree: separate WDT: Not starting watchdog@7020400 MMC: mmc@4020000: 0, mmc@4022000: 1 Loading Environment from FAT... Unable to use mmc 1:1... In: serial@5000000 Out: serial@5000000 Err: serial@5000000 Net: No ethernet found. Autoboot in 1 seconds, press <Space> to stop switch to partitions #0, OK mmc1(part 0) is current device Scanning mmc 1:1... Found U-Boot script /boot/boot.scr 3259 bytes read in 2 ms (1.6 MiB/s) ## Executing script at 4fc00000 U-boot loaded from SD Boot script loaded from mmc 204 bytes read in 1 ms (199.2 KiB/s) MMC: no card present ** Bad device specification mmc 0 ** 37640 bytes read in 4 ms (9 MiB/s) 3844 bytes read in 3 ms (1.2 MiB/s) Applying kernel provided DT fixup script (sun50i-h6-fixup.scr) ## Executing script at 45000000 17091365 bytes read in 844 ms (19.3 MiB/s) 21803016 bytes read in 1077 ms (19.3 MiB/s) Moving Image from 0x40080000 to 0x40200000, end=41730000 ## Loading init Ramdisk from Legacy Image at 4ff00000 ... Image Name: uInitrd Image Type: AArch64 Linux RAMDisk Image (gzip compressed) Data Size: 17091301 Bytes = 16.3 MiB Load Address: 00000000 Entry Point: 00000000 Verifying Checksum ... OK ## Flattened Device Tree blob at 4fa00000 Booting using the fdt blob at 0x4fa00000 Loading Ramdisk to 48fb3000, end 49fffae5 ... OK Loading Device Tree to 0000000048f41000, end 0000000048fb2fff ... OK Starting kernel ...

I just run an "sudo apt upgrade" and my 22.05 system was upgraded to 23.8.1 As a result WiFi stopped working. The wireless interface disappeared and can not be configured with armbian-config. On the positive side it seems like the load bug is now fixed, load can now be 0.0.0 at its lowest as opposed to 1.1.1 before. is there a way to revert back to the old kernel with Armbian?

I am having a network problem that I can not figure out. First I had to roll back the kernel to version 5.x to even get wifi to work. Since then I have tried all sorts of things. No matter what I do, when I unplug the eth0 the wifi goes away as well. Here is some stuff that might help. __ __ _ _ _ ____ _____ | \/ | (_) (_) |/ __ \ / ____| | \ / | __ _ _ _ __ ___ __ _ _| | | | | (___ | |\/| |/ _` | | '_ \/ __|/ _` | | | | | |\___ \ | | | | (_| | | | | \__ \ (_| | | | |__| |____) | |_| |_|\__,_|_|_| |_|___/\__,_|_|_|\____/|_____/ Version 1.1.1, based on Armbian 23.02.2 Bullseye Running on OPi 3 LTS with Linux 5.15.93-sunxi64 System load: 41% Up time: 3 min Memory usage: 15% of 1.94G IP: 192.168.1.161 192.168.1.160 CPU temp: 43°C Usage of /: 84% of 7.0G [ Kernel and firmware upgrades disabled: armbian-config ] Last check: 2023-09-16 20:53 Last login: Sat Sep 16 20:50:31 2023 from 192.168.1.65 pi@OrangePI3:~$ ip a 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000 link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP group default qlen 1000 link/ether 02:07:75:b2:b2:2d brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet 192.168.1.161/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global eth0 valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 3: wlan0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP group default qlen 1000 link/ether a0:ab:d6:c3:a7:66 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet 192.168.1.160/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global noprefixroute wlan0 valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- # armbian-config created source /etc/network/interfaces.d/* # Local loopback auto lo iface lo inet loopback # Interface eth0 allow-hotplug eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.1.161 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.1.1 dns-nameservers 192.168.1.1 8.8.8.8 I don't know what else to try. Thanks in advance.

Hello there. I'm trying to set up GPIO pins PD15 and PD16 on my OrangePi 3 LTS to work as input pins using device tree overlays. The overlay I have created is the following (for PD15 only): /dts-v1/; /plugin/; / { compatible = "allwinner,sun50i-h6"; fragment@0 { target = <&pio>; __overlay__ { my_pins:my_pins { pins = "PD15"; function = "gpio_in"; default-state = "on"; }; }; }; fragment@1 { target-path = "/"; __overlay__ { my@0 { compatible = "my-gpio"; pinctrl-names = "default"; pinctrl-0 = <&my_pins>; gpios = <&pio 3 15 0>; status = "okay"; }; }; }; }; Probably it is incorrect, because when I check the GPIO state using "gpio readall" command, I still get OFF state for the PD15 pin. Of course, I could change the pin mode using the "gpio" command itself (it does work, like "gpio mode 9 in" does set the PD15 pin mode to input), but I would prefer the overlays method.

Hi all, I've just installed Armbian on my OPi3-lts and I'm trying to get the IR remote working (the iDroid included in the kit from aliexpress). I've followed this guide (from "Second attempt" on), using only the kernel driver without intalling lirc. Found out the protocol (nec), wrote the rc_keymap file mapping the key codes to the button names and everything seems to work fine, down to the last command (sudo ir-keytable -v -t -p nec), which correctly gives me the codes and the button names associated with them. Now, the guide says it's all and I should be able to use the remote as I use my keyboard, but... the desktop and the apps seem not to be aware of it, since nothing happens when I press the buttons... What am I missing? Thank you in advance

Hello. I have problem with SSH on Armbian 23.8 Bookworm Orange Pi 3 LTS. Orange seems like booting ok, DHCP works too, since I see Pi's IP in my router settings, also I can ping it, and I'm 100% sure its Pi's IP since I have only my PC connected to LAN. I waited for 5 mins, and still couldn't connect to SSH. I tried to do port scan on Pi's IP and nmap says that only 5555 port is open. I am using 2A Adapter, so there should be no power issues. Here are some logs. I also connected using UART and here are logs

Hi there! I've just compiled from armbian buil tools a new image for Orange Pi 3 LTS. Then flash it on sdcard, anything was well, but armbian doesn't start at all. Nothing on the HDMI, nothing on the debug serial. Also LED doesn't light. I've tried two images: ubuntu jammy with GNOME and next case XFCE. Both cases didn't work. I've downloaded prebuilt image from armbian.org and it starts well. In my opinion, some problem with custom images in u-boot. but I don't know how to give a diagnosis.