Orange Pi 5B - AP6275P built-in WiFi module - completely lost

Jeff H · July 3, 2023

Hello! First off, thanks for the amazing product you all have created - huge props to everyone who contributes!

I have been trying to get Armbian completely working on my Orange Pi 5b for a week now.

Most notably: WiFi.

Just a few moments ago I set up a new build of Armbian again, on an empty SD card. The one from https://www.armbian.com/orangepi-5/, Armbian 23.5 Jammy Gnome, as the more recent builds' armbian-config don't seem to have an option to enable overlays.

After doing the default setup (user, locale, and it asks for "connect via wifi?" but shows no WiFi devices), I ran armbian-config.

I go to System -> Hardware, but see nothing of the sort (no ap6275p, no "wifi", nothing).

Manually adding "overlays=wifi-ap6275p" to /boot/armbianEnv.txt and rebooting does nothing, unfortunately.

In the settings "app", I can click Wi-Fi, but it says "unavailable" and basically just keeps searching for networks.

Looking around the forums I just keep going in a loop and it's driving me crazy. I tried basically every suggestion, how-to, etc, but keep ending up with non-functional wifi.

Can someone give me a hand? What am I missing? Why is this not supported, seems like a pretty important feature?

I understand how much work goes into this kind of thing and am nothing but grateful, especially if I could get some help here.

Thanks again!