First Orange pi not supported anymore ?

[arcadialabs]

Hi,

 

I own the first Orange Pi (A20, VGA, HDMI, NAND, 4xUSB, WiFi).

I notice there is no Armbian image for download anymore. The last one I still have is a 3.4.113, 5.25 Ubuntu/Xenial-default-desktop (currently running from the NAND very well, but I can't seem to run the wifi in AP mode).

Is Armbian for this board is dropped for good ? Is there a way to update my 5.25 to last version without breaking everything ? Or maybe convert a A20 image to this board, using the working image I'm currently using ?

 

Thanks !

[Bubba]

https://www.armbian.com/orange-pi/

The mainline server is 4.11....

yes older boards are "phased out"

 

You could check to see if you can build a desktop mainline..but do you know if the hardware is supported for AP mode (not all wi-fi can run in AP mode) and if the board has support in the mainline.

[arcadialabs]

Oh, nice, thanks for the link !

Honestly it is the first time I'm trying to use AP mode on this board. Perhaps you are right and it is not supported. I will try to check that.

Thank you !

[arcadialabs]

The 5.31 desktop image seems to run well, however I have a small issue : the mouse cursor is invisible... I tried to add Option         "HWCursor" "false"  to /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf under the pointer section, but it does not work. Is there a workaround ?

 

Edit : nevermind, I found the workaround :

1- reinstall xorg : apt-get -y install xorg lightdm xfce4 tango-icon-theme gnome-icon-theme

2- add Option         "HWCursor" "false"  to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-fbturbo.conf

[Igor]

AP mode works on this board but AFAIK driver - on legacy kernel - was unstable. Probably the one shipped with mainline kernel works better.

 

The problem with running hostapd is that you need to tell Network manager to not use this and that interface and there is a special hostapd binary for some Realtek chips. By using recent armbian-config (from GitHub), this is solved by default.