CSC Armbian for RK322x TV box boards

[jock]

@Obmor

here it is a module for kernel 6.6.67 and rtl8189es. Put this module in /lib/modules/6.6.41-current-rockchip/kernel/drivers/net/wireless directory, then run sudo depmod -a and reboot.

If everything went ok, you should get 8189es driver loaded after boot; perhaps you may need a firmware to put somewhere in /lib/firmware. In case, the driver should complain about in dmesg that something is missing or wrong, and that may serve as hint to proceed further.

 

 

8189es.ko.gz

[Obmor]

@jock

It worked! thank you very much! There are already 2 WLANs: WLAN0 and WLAN1 hmm..

ip_a-v9.3.txt lsmod-v9.3.txt dmesg-v9.3.txt

[jock]

2 hours ago, Obmor said:

It worked! thank you very much! There are already 2 WLANs: WLAN0 and WLAN1 hmm..

That's because usually these drivers are suited for Android and they expose by default a "regular" interface and a "P2P" interface for direct connection.

Just use wlan0, or there should be a module option to disable the p2p interface.

[RecursiveError]

11 hours ago, MaxT said:

he above linked GitHub repo contains exactly what was asked - brief overview of the build system with links to documentation. Have you read those?

Yes, I read it, but I can't find the information I needed in the repo.
 Looking at the logs of a custom image I made, I found the hash of the u-boot version used, and now the patches worked without problems

I also found some information about how I should configure the kernel

[Obmor]

@jock

19 часов назад, jock сказал:

here it is a module for kernel 6.6.67 and rtl8189es.

Hi!

Do I understand correctly that when changing/updating the kernel version, the driver will not load and you will need to rebuild the module?

[jock]

8 hours ago, Obmor said:

Do I understand correctly that when changing/updating the kernel version, the driver will not load and you will need to rebuild the module?

Yes, it is correct. But I will enable the rtl8189es module in the armbian mainline so forthcoming kernels will have the module compiled in. Just not update the kernel in the meantime.

[Obmor]

@jock

24.12.2024 в 03:04, jock сказал:

Try to put this file: rk322x-led-conf9.dtbo
in /boot/dtb/overlay directory, then append led-conf9 to overlays line in /boot/armbianEnv.txt and see from dmesg if your wifi device gets detected.

Send the dmesg log anyway, it is the first step to understand what is wrong.

 

By the way, you don't have to apply this patch. You just need to install the driver.

[jock]

5 hours ago, Obmor said:

By the way, you don't have to apply this patch. You just need to install the driver.

Do you mean the led-conf9 device tree overlay? Does the wifi works even without this overlay applied?

[Obmor]

@jock

19 часов назад, jock сказал:

Do you mean the led-conf9 device tree overlay? Does the wifi works even without this overlay applied?

So sure. Works without overlay

[Obmor]

There is still such a problem. When the device reboots, the USB Ethernet adapter does not initialize. You have to pull it out and put it in again. When the device is turned off, there is no such thing.

[fabiobassa]

@Obmor

Welcome in the fantastic world of cheap tvboxes 🤪

 

 

post scriptum: it happens time to time with mouse, too

Edited December 27, 2024 by fabiobassa

[Slider]

Hello!

Few days I try to config small printserver with rk3239 box.

It use "v24.11.1 for rk322x-box running Armbian Linux 6.6.63-current-rockchip" image (tested with older images too).

Looks everething works fine. But one problem with printing app.

I try to use hplip-printer-app as snap pkg. https://github.com/OpenPrinting/hplip-printer-app

App start, but if try to connect to http://IP:8000 it crash with "Segmentation fault"

I thought maybe some app bug, but I had make some tests with amlogic S905X, S905X3 boxes and raspi 4b. There apps works fine.

I not understand why rk box crashes? 

[Asriel Nguyen]

On 12/22/2024 at 12:13 AM, MattWestB said:

@Asriel Nguyen The board looks very not RK3228 like but your lsusb is saying it one in maskrom mode so shall being one but no initial booltloader in the eMMC = shall booting Multitool / Armbian OK from SD-Card (but not direct from USB sticks).

Only PM is if the card reader is on the standard address or being on other then its not working.

 

Do you have some high res picture of top and bottom of the PCB then cant see the small components and printing ?

Edited December 22 by MattWestB

Hey, sorry for late response

Here are the images

https://alist.genshin.gay/rk3229

Also, I did solder an sd slot but it seems to be boot looping (the flash drive flickering). That's just my guess

[Daniel Campillay Morales]

Hello @jock, hope you're ok!

 

Seven months ago, I successfully installed Armbian (Armbian_community_24.5.0-trunk.563_Rk322x-box_bookworm_current_6.6.30_minimal) and RetroPie on my RK3229 TV box (MXQ-4K-5G) using an 8 GB USB drive. Following the instructions from this forum, the entire compilation process took me approximately 15 hours. I saved everything as an IMG file using Win32DiskManager.

NOTE : I’m aware that the internal Wi-Fi module (SV6256P, which is my internal wifi module) doesn’t work with this setup, but I know that the Armbian Legacy version with kernel 4.4.194 offers an option in rk322x-config to enable this module.

 

Since then, I’ve created multiple 8 GB images with this configuration.

 

This time, I decided to make a different procedure: Install from scratch an updated Armbian bookworm, then sudo apt install LXDE in order to GUI-access and copy my files from Retropie (via sh script) without needing to remove the SD card and insert it into a separate Linux OS. I used the latest available community image, Armbian_community_25.2.0-trunk.86_Rk322x-box_bookworm_current_6.6.63_minimal.img.xz, and successfully installed LXDE without any issues.

However, after installing RetroPie, the menu runs very slow. Somehow, I sense GPU Video driver is not responding or somehow LXDE messed up video drivers.

What do you think might be causing this? Perhaps there is a process running in background, and therefore making things going slow

I know a screenshot could explain better, but i'm not at home at this moment.

 

Hope you can help me on this.

 

Regards

 

D

Edited December 29, 2024 by Daniel Campillay Morales

[Tavares R]

Hey, how you guys are going? I tryed to download the img of the multitool at this link https://users.armbian.com/jock/rk322x/multitool/multitool.img.xz but it's page not found 404, is there any link where i can download the img of the multitool? 

[fabiobassa]

@Tavares R

https://users.armbian.com/jock/web/rk322x/multitool/

[Budi Pekerti]

hello guys, how to fix my device when im doing wrong setting using rk322x-config, my device cannot boot 🥲
im forgot to clone my prev data in sdcard.

[jock]

@Budi Pekerti boot via sdcard with multitool, mount the block device where you installed armbian and then remove the overlays=... line from /boot/armbianEnv.txt

 

If you don't know how to do this, you have to reinstall from scratch

[Francisco Hasuky]

Hello guys, I am new to the issue of boxes, I have made several without problems but there are 2 boards with the detail that the HDMI turns off in 1 minute, I have tried the recommended images so that this problem does not happen but I have not been able to solve it, I would appreciate your help on the subject, greetings

[jock]

Hello @Francisco Hasuky, does the HDMI turns off but the board is still responsive or the board just drops dead?

 

[Francisco Hasuky]

Hi @jock
Multitool boots properly but after a minute the box turns off(Libreelec has same behavior).
This minute is enough to erase emms but not enough to flash img on board and bricks the device.
Rkdeveloptool works great in maskrom mode and I managed to burn loader and image.
I tried Armbian_21.02.1_Rk322x-box_buster_legacy_4.4.194.img , Armbian_23.08.0-trunk_Rk322x-box_buster_edge_6.5.5_minimal, Armbian_23.11.1_Rk322x-box_jammy_current_6.1.63_minimal and self compiled Armbian-unofficial_24.2.0-trunk_Rk322x-box_bookworm_edge_6.7.5_minimal on emmc and sd card with no success.

[Jota Ce]

Good afternoon. Thanks for the work you are doing.

I'm using a R329Q TV box with SSV6051P wifi chip. With the latest Armbian build the wifi connection doesn't work. According to the website https://travis90x.altervista.org/mxq-pro-4k-tvbox-rockchip-rk322x-armbian/, in order for the driver to work you need a kernel older than version 4.5.0. The page recommends using the Armbian_22.02.0-trunk_Rk322x-box_bullseye_legacy_4.4.194_minimal build, but I don't know where to look for it. There are no versions older than 23 on GitHub. Thanks, JC

[jock]

@Francisco Hasuky it is a known problem: some boards are sent to "suspension" after one minute by the proprietary Trust OS; you need to build u-boot with an opensource Trust to overcome the problem. At the moment I'm unable to build an image or provide the binary, but will do in the forthcoming hours/days

 

@Jota Ce if you got ssv6051p chip, then you should be ok using any recent armbian image with kernel 6.12 (you could upgrade to edge kernel via armbian-config, or use the beta.armbian.com APT repository). Also kernel 6.6 should work with ssv6051p because the (horrible) driver has been ported from 4.4 kernel.

[toro2077]

need help, wifi not detected

 

-mxq pro 4k

-Armbian_community_25.2.0-trunk.86_Rk322x-box_noble_current_6.6.63_xfce_desktop.img

 

1. i try this first, not work

2. try this second, not work

 

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rk322x-config

armbianEnv

 

 

dmesg.txt lsmod.txt

[toro2077]

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Edited Monday at 06:56 AM by toro2077

[fabiobassa]

@toro2077
If I remember well, and you can confirm by yourself scrolling in older posts, thiw wifi will never ever work since there aren't any driver avaible for this ( infamous) chip s9012p

[joaovitorlopesa]

Hello everyone, how are you? I hope you are well.
I have a RK322x TV Box with eMMC and I installed armbian, but my Wlan is a ssv6200, I noticed that this driver is not available in the version "Armbian_community_25.2.0-trunk.293_Rk322x-box_noble_current_6.12.8_xfce_desktop.img", is this missing driver available to download and include in this img?