Orange Pi 3 LTS lost Ethernet connection after reboot

[kevinhope]

Flash 25.2.0 (The Latest Built Dec 01) to a SD card and boot a Orange Pi 3 LTS, Ethernet lost after sudo reboot the board. It did not even come back after physically power off and on. Have anyone experienced the same problem? The same board worked very well with Debian Bullseyes (downloaded from http://www.orangepi.org/html/hardWare/computerAndMicrocontrollers/service-and-support/Orange-pi-3-LTS.html). I googled and found Orange Pi 3B has similar problem. https://www.reddit.com/r/OrangePI/comments/1aojmn3/orange_pi_3b_ethernet_doesnt_work/ 

 

Edited December 1 by kevinhope
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[kris777]

Orange pi 3 LTS is not supported by Armbian developers but only by the forum community ... so do not count on super correct operation of this model and Armbian firmware, it is probably better to use the official FW from OrangePi for now, although the versions are not updated often and the last ones are from 2022. However, they work well, although I do not have high requirements for this model because I use it as an internet radio 🙂

[Igor]

2 hours ago, kris777 said:

it is probably better to use the official FW from OrangePi for now

 

Official FW is old and re-branded version of Armbian. Without any updates and maintenance for years.

 

Official FW:

https://github.com/orangepi-xunlong/orangepi-build/tree/next/scripts

Armbian in 2022:

https://github.com/armbian/build/tree/v22.08/lib

 

We provide archive for (almost) all previously stabilized images:

https://archive.armbian.com/orangepi3-lts/archive/

which are in better shape, but update might break them, so freezing of kernel is required.