[Bug]: Ethernet rarely connecting successfully in Orange Pi 3 LTS

[iMagz]

What happened?

 

Orange Pi 3 LTS rarely recognize ethernet connection.

 

How to reproduce?

 

Flash Orange Pi 3 LTS with an image of the latest version of Armbian.

 

Extra Info

 

The latest images tested which worked flawlessly was: 

 

Armbian_community_25.11.0-trunk.437_Orangepi3-lts_trixie_current_6.12.47_minimal.img

 

Armbian_23.8.3_Orangepi3-lts_jammy_current_6.1.53_minimal.img

 

 

Images tested which didn't worked:

 

Armbian_community_26.2.0-trunk.151_Orangepi3-lts_trixie_current_6.12.63_minimal.img

 

Armbian_community_26.2.0-trunk.100_Orangepi3-lts_trixie_current_6.12.63_minimal.img

[Werner]

logs?

[Werner]

May have found something. Perhaps https://lists.openwall.net/linux-kernel/2025/09/17/618 causes issues.

Here is a test image that works around this by adjusting device tree a bit. Please test and report

 

https://testing.armbian.de/Armbian-unofficial_26.02.0-trunk_Orangepi3-lts_trixie_current_6.12.63_minimal.img.xz