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Hi. I got NO SIGNAL on my TV during boot after "Starting kernel". Same with dev image builded from tool and with stable image too. Thanks.

Tried image from main download page would not boot https://www.armbian.com/donate/?f=https://dl.armbian.com/bananapim2/Debian_jessie_next.7z Tried image from archive would not boot https://dl.armbian.com/bananapim2/archive/Armbian_5.24_Bananapim2_Debian_jessie_next_4.9.5.7z Tried using tool to build my own image and that also failed to boot. Tried older image which did boot, https://dl.armbian.com/bananapim2/archive/Armbian_5.20_Bananapim2_Debian_jessie_4.7.3_desktop.7z and tried adding new kernel using tool, after loading deb files it also would not reboot before reboot OS was not responding correctly. What I would like to accomplish is add my own patched kernel, (RT-PREEMPT) to debian desktop image for banana pi M2 Any help would be appreciated Tim

Hello, i want to try armbian, so I download it from here https://www.armbian.com/banana-pi-m2/and write it to the sd-card. i started the BPi M2 login as root create a user account and the Desktop started .... ehm NOT.. it runs in an infinity reboot loop.. if I disconnect the LAN-Cable i will see the desktop, but after a few minutes the same.. so i remove the HDMI-cable.. it boots, i plugged in the LAN-cable and can connect via ssh.. i try to upgrade the system, but again after a few minutes it freeze and reboot. can somebody help me to figrue out what happen and how can i resolve this problem? thanks in advance!

Hello. I am new to Armbian. My Banana PI M2 (already a disappointment, bad purchase on my part) is up and running but will not reboot all the way. It shuts down but does not restart again. Any ideas how to go about troubleshooting and fixing this? It is a deal breaker for what I planned to be a headless system. It needs to be restartable without physically pulling the plug to do so.

I've just installed the Armbian 5.20 in the Banana PI M2. No boot. The message "Waiting for PHY auto negotiation to complete .....Timeout! Could not initialize PHY ethernet@01c30000" shows up over and over again and the boot freezes in sequence. Somebody knows what is going on?

Hi guys, i've the following problem in my attempt to customize/study armbian: - succesfully compiled Armbian_5.17_Bananapim2_Debian_jessie_4.8.0 on Ubuntu 16.04 with default config; - burned image on SD card, (on the same card burned with Armbian_5.14_Bananapim2_Debian_jessie_4.6.2_desktop and the system boot is ok) - the board enter in this reset loop: U-Boot 2016.07-armbian (Sep 11 2016 - 10:06:05 +0200) Allwinner Technology CPU: Allwinner A31s (SUN6I) Model: Sinovoip BPI-M2 DRAM: 1 GiB MMC: SUNXI SD/MMC: 0 *** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment HDMI connected: Setting up a 1680x1050 dvi console (overscan 0x0) In: serial Out: vga Err: vga Net: data abort pc : [<7ef5f708>] lr : [<00000000>] reloc pc : [<4a001708>] lr : [<cb0a2000>] sp : 7af36f7c ip : 7efabe89 fp : 00000017 r10: 7efab885 r9 : 7af3dee8 r8 : 000040a0 r7 : 7ef9ee14 r6 : 00000000 r5 : 00000001 r4 : 00000000 r3 : 0000000f r2 : 00000001 r1 : 00000000 r0 : ea00000e Flags: nzCv IRQs off FIQs off Mode SVC_32 Resetting CPU ... resetting ... what's wrong ? cheers rt1k

Hello, actually it was not the first time the upgrade failed on this board: - upgrade 5.11 to 5.15 -> returned successfull - reboot - at boot system can not find file: sun6i-a31s-bananapi-m2.dtb (file sun6i-a31s-sinovoip-bpi-m2.dtb for BPi M2 is available) - fixed it by linking to the existing device tree blob sun6i-a31s-sinovoip-bpi-m2.dtb - reboot again - no network (my /etc/network/interfaces has been set to armbian default, same as /etc/network/interfaces.default, this happened the first time) fixed it again by setting the correct content I don't know if the upgrade process is the problem or if there is something messed up on my board... Now everything is working again... But I guess it will be the same next time... regards Holsteiner

Hi, I just bought an RTC module for my Banana Pi M2, but when scanning for i2c devices I noticed that there are no i2c device nodes in /dev using the latest Armbian version (5.15). Is there any way to get it working? Modprobing i2c-dev or any other modules I've found didn't help Thanks in advance!

Dear all, we need some help from Banana Pi M2 (not that important), Cubox-i/UDOO and ODROID XU4 users. Please look through this Github issue and also have look how we currently handle IRQ redistribution on various board families (example 1 and example 2) Since irqbalanced on ARM is broken (and if it would work it's often counterproductive) assigning IRQs statically to specific CPU cores increases overall system performance slightly for free. We do this for A20 boards for years (dual core --> sending Ethernet to second CPU core), extended this on H3 boards a few months ago (quad core and somewhat complicated due to the count of different boards exposing different interfaces) and added other board families just recently. Now we need you! In case you are somewhat experienced please get back to us with the output of cat /proc/interrupts (when you're running a more recent Armbian version then output of 'sudo armbianmonitor -u' is preferred!) And in case you're able to do some testing please have a look at the examples above and the Github issue (Amlogic kernels seem to need different procfs calls for example), test yourself and provide code snippets already known to work! Thx in advance!

Hi all, First of all i check the HDMI connection with a raspberry (raspbian) and OrangePi (armbian) and it works on my screen. But on the BPI-M2 dosnt work... i try with Debian Jessie upgraded, with a fresh install outdated of Debian Jessie and i try too Debian Jessie Desktop... No works... I try too with other bpi-m2 board, and the issue stills... So isnt a hardware fail... there are any config or special command tu turn on? I see the boot.src and all apparently are ok. Best regards

Hi all, I speak with BPI and the A31S chip of bpi-m2, will be change with the quad core H3... If i buy this board we will work with armbian 5.10 of bpi-m2? i need to download and install something for the compatibility with the H3? The idea is migrate the system to H3 Best regards

I tried all 3 versions but they doesn't boot. I tested using Armbian 4.5. It booted correctly. I used Rufus for writing to SD. Is there anything changed for writing? Also does it support LeMaker official lcd at version 5.1? Thanks.

Hello, Has anybody successfully used the IR sensor on Banana Pi M2? From this, after I load the sunxi-cir module, I should see the sensor in /sys/class/rc/ but I see nothing. Nothing on dmesg either. Anyone who could point me in the right direction?

Hello there, I belong to the group of users that bought a BPi-M2 to just find out that hardware is nothing without software support. First, to my background: I do spend a lot of time at my computer using both Windows and Linux, but I am not a Linux guru. I used to configure and build kernels several years ago, at the time, when we used LILO to boot Linux. My field of interest is real-time sound processing, based on complex filter banks (ideally implemented using multi-threading). For a current project I needed something small, powerful and easily programmable. Since the BPi-M2 has 4 cores and built-in microphone, it seemed ideal for the first tries. Anyway, I tried quite some Linux images available on the Internet, but they all suck in one way or another. Some days ago I crossed a posting of Igor and I downloaded armbian 4.5 (Debian Jessie) for the board. I instantly liked it. I love simple and clean things, and the distro was just that. Since then, I updated the kernel, installed X with LXDE, and installed Code::Blocks 13.12. I still like this distro most. Slow graphics of course sucks with the default framebuffer driver, but the real problem for me is the missing audio support. As far as I understand from the Linux mainlining effort web page, the A31 audio codec driver is not even planned for kernel 4.5. And this is what I do not understand: how can Ubuntu Mate (kernel 3.3.0-BPI-M2) support the sound (both sun6i-codec and sndhdmi with ALSA v1.0.24) and the new kernel not? And why is it so complicated to put the sun6i-codec driver from the 3.3.x kernel to the 4.4.x kernel? Please wise me up! Thanks! NewtoM ps: BTW, I am happy to help with testing!

Hi, I installed 'Armbian_5.00_Bananapim2_Ubuntu_trusty_4.4.1_desktop' image recently, because I had some problems with sinovoip images (strange hugh? ). One of the problems was the gigabit ethernet slowness, but it seems with the armbian OS is still the same. I get around 30Mbit/sec only on iperf tests. I have tested my network connections & router and I can get much more speed through other computers, but the banana shows this slow mark. The gigabit ethernet connection was one of the reasons tu buy the banana, but I don't know if I am doing something wrong, if I have a bad unit, etc... I have found some internet benchmarks but all of them are based on the original banana pi, which shows very good ethernet speeds. Any help will be much appreciated, Best Regards,

Hello, I'm trying to set up the video streaming on Banana Pi M2. I tried all of the available images, but I can't find the image where the kernel includes ov5640.ko and sunxi_csi0(1).ko modules. The instruction on banana-pi.org said that I only need to load these two modules, but they are not included in images... The only image, where the ov5640 works is the Android 4.4 from banana-pi.org, but it is not fast enough. Do you have any experiences with that, or suggestions about how to run this? Kind regards, CottonEye_Joe

I have tried to use the nand-sata-install to allow me to boot the roots from an external USB HDD. It goes through the process but after rebooting, the "loading kernel" message appears and then nothing - I have tried this a few times and even used the latest version of the script on GitHub. Any ideas on how to make this work - I have a external USB HDD (500mB).

Hello everyone, I'm trying to set up a system as musicjukebox supporting -MPD -USB Audio -WlanAP -7"Display With the Raspbian Image of banana-pi(dot)org with Kernel 3.3 lcd works but usb-sound not. With kernel 4.2 it is the other way around. The support is very bad in my opinion, so I'm looking somewhere else. Is armbian able to satisfy my needs? Or do I have to do much compiling/programming, which would be all new to me as a linux beginner... Regards Andre

Hi all, I try to compile the driver mt7610u from TP-Link AC600 Archer T2UH USB on BPI-M2 and i have this error:

Hi, I wanna try the armbian for banana pi M2 but when i flash the image in the microSd card with Rufus (i'm on windows 10) the pi does not boot correctly, i.e restarting every 10 seconds. Afterwards the card is not easy to reformat, not accessible on windows. In Rufus I do (i tried with 2 different cards): - choose the .raw file - then the combobox is set to DD image - finally i click on start So is there something I totally miss? Thx

I have a BPI-M2 and I am trying to patch kernel 4.4.1 with contents of archive patches-4.4.1-rt6.tar.gz for RT-Preempt while making Debian Wheezy xfce desktop image. I have tried putting patches in /userpatches/kernel/sunxi-dev and /userpatches/kernel/sunxi-dev/linux-vanilla/v4.4.1 nether worked. Made image but patches were not applied Any help would be appreciated Tim

Hi all, Well i am trying to add 2 wireless board and 1 ethernet controler with out successful... The boards that i am trying are: Raspberry 2, BPI-M2 and in some weels Orange Pi Plus. The idea is add : a second ethernet 10/100/1000 to the board (enc28j60 module) one wifi card: http://www.sparklan.com/p2-products-detail.php?PKey=00b4zgTVJUGKMz3D2fh3hT0YqEY5pUo0Vq2M_xYD&WUBR-508N%20Module%20Series other wifi card: http://es.aliexpress.com/store/product/VIA-VNT9271-USB-Embedded-WLAN-Module/213061_633552912.html?storeId=213061 1. In the begining i try connect the ethernet enc28j60 module to the SPI, but in the banana sucks (http://lists.infrade...ary/229951.html), dont know how will work on rpi2, i supposed no more than 100 2-3. Well i try connect it to the UART conexión in the GPIO, TXD -> Data - and RXD -> Data + , Power and background, But dosnt work, i dont know why the boards don´t see this mini usb boards (well 1 of these shut down the boards O_O) I connect well this wifis modules? or need a second board to connect this usb cables to the GPIO? Is better conenct ethernet on UART and not in the SPI? So where i connect the Wifis, in the USB OTG? I CANT USE THE 4 EXTERNAL USB Can anybody show me the way to get this propose? Thanks a lot.

Hi all, I bought this ethernet: The idea is connect to the SPI, but not sure what pines i must to connect... i follow this: Raspi.tv So i connect the pines, exactly like there say, but he connect on the UART not in the SPI :S (have 2 pines more, but the pines that he conenct i have in my ethernet board) So i connect to the gpio of my board and well turn on! yeah! xD: If i fo ifconfig i see this: root@bananapim2:~# ifconfig bond0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 7e:99:6b:7c:04:39 UP BROADCAST MASTER MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 TX bytes:0 (0.0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 02:44:07:0d:76:33 inet addr:192.168.1.44 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::44:7ff:fe0d:7633/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:937 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:459 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:758921 (741.1 KiB) TX bytes:86608 (84.5 KiB) Interrupt:44 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1 RX packets:70 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:70 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:31817 (31.0 KiB) TX bytes:31817 (31.0 KiB) wlan1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 98:3b:16:c8:56:6e UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:42 errors:0 dropped:42 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:12820 (12.5 KiB) TX bytes:0 (0.0 I should supposed is the bond0 the interface?? ot should be the an eth1? Can i connect this to the SPI? Its enabled SPI on armbian by defaultt? Where is the file that i must change for work with GPIO on Armbian? its /boot/config-4.3.3-sunxi? there are a lot of lines that have SPI options, to many with "=m" and others comments :S I try edit /etc/networks/interfaces and put auto bon0, but not get any IP address, i haven't got any idea about wtf means bond0...

Hi! I have recently installed Armbian 4.5 (Debain Jessie and Ubuntu trusty) at Banana Pi M2, and I’ve noticed that the computer doesn’t reboot after the command. It simply switches off, and the red diode lights up. How it could be corrected?

Hi again guys, I buy some usb wireless boards to connect to the GPIO with the UART Pines, but in the especifications of the GPIO, only i see 1: Has you can see only GPIO 14 and 15 have TXD and RXD... I will use too the SPI to add other ethernet so... its possible use other GPIO for TXD and RXD?? In my Pixhawk (board for drones) i use I2C for monitoring stats via wireless (2.4Ghz), maybe this pines can work for usb wireless. If is possible, how can i program other pines for that? will be any diference? (more slow or more cpu resources or whatever?) Thanks like always!