WiFi and Bluetooth not working on Orange Pi 5 Max (Armbian Noble Edge 7.0-rc6)

[somejuice]

Hello Armbian Community,

 

I am currently running the following image on my Orange Pi 5 Max:

Armbian_community_26.2.0-trunk.668_Orangepi5-max_noble_edge_7.0.0-rc6_kde-neon_desktop

Unfortunately, I'm struggling with WiFi and Bluetooth issues:

WiFi: No wireless interfaces are detected (no option in network settings).

Bluetooth: The service is active, but it cannot scan or find any devices.

What I’ve tried so far:

Installed armbian-firmware and full-mirror-armbian-firmware.

Verified that common wireless tools and relative packages are up to date.

Checked rfkill list, but the adapters don't seem to be initialized correctly.

I noticed a similar discussion on the DietPi forums regarding the OPi 5 Max Bluetooth (link:DietPi), but I'm unsure if those specific workarounds apply to the current Armbian Edge kernel (7.0-rc6).

 

I understand that maintaining support for newer boards and edge kernels is a huge task. Could anyone point me in the right direction? Are there specific firmware blobs or device tree overlays I need to manually enable for this board?

 

Thank you for your time and for all the hard work on the Armbian project!

[Werner]

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