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Hello everyone I own some noname chinese Android stick, which has Allwinner A20 CPU. Unfortunately, long time ago seller cheated me and device has 512 MB ram instead of 1GB (4 gigabit chips..). It has some "Android" firmware (which shows 1GB), but I cannot find nor backup, neither upgrade firmware. Not a big deal, since device not in active use. I tried Armbian Cubeiboard2 and pcDuino3 builds - everything working like a charm, desktop starts, so I want to run sata-nand install for Armbian for legacy kernel - /dev/nand is here, and I can even dump a "backup" of NAND to have it "just in case". Some help is really appreciated (some questio…

Environment: Armbian on an Odroid-HC2 (Homecloud 2) which uses the odroid-xu4 firmware. Reproduction: After initial installation on the welcome banner "RX today:" always shows a nice value. Install and run some docker containers. This changes /sys/class/net/ . AFAIK it adds so called "virtual network interfaces". From then on the Armbian welcome screen displays like this: Error: Interface "veth•••••••" not found in database. Note: • redacted by me. Analysis: /etc/default/armbian-motd … PRIMARY_INTERFACE="$(ls -1 /sys/class/net/ | grep -v lo | egrep "enp|eth" | head -1)" … The current regular expression fals…

How use s_rsb0 as TWI ???

Hi, thanks to this tutorial: I was able to add optical S/PDIF module to my orange pi zero plus 2 h3 - It works But I noticed the the every time when a sound is played it causes the SPDIF output on the OPI to initialise (switch on the red light) which takes about 1-2 seconds, after the sound has finished the SPDIF output goes back to sleep (switch off the red light). As a result on every new audio that is played the first 1-2 second is lost off This is not a problem if I'm listening radio but in case of quick phrases spoken by the synthesizer(my case) this is a real problem. Is there any way to keep S/PDIF …

Maybe someone will be interested in it. https://bbs.stationpc.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=343&extra=page%3D1%26filter%3Dauthor%26orderby%3Dlastpost The uniqueness of this model is in the mechanism of a very simple installation of a standard SATA SSD drive. p.s. According to information from one client who uses this equipment in serious industrial operation - P2 worked without problems for many days with a full load (24\7) in harsh conditions without failures and failures, at the same time, they tried to use R4S, which froze and turned off after 20 hours.

I installed Armbian on my Banana Pro and upgraded to 16.04. I successfully configured various services I previously ran on Lubuntu 14.04, including nginx and bind9. However when I try to join my Samba domain as a DC, I get the following: samba-tool domain join mydomain DC --username=administrator --use-ntvfs Finding a writeable DC for domain 'mydomain' Found DC dc1.mydomain ldb: unable to stat module /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/samba/ldb : No such file or directory ERROR(<class 'samba.join.DCJoinException'>): uncaught exception - Can't join, error: 00002020: Operation unavailable without authentication File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/samba/netcmd/__init_…

First of all, I'm a complete novice to Armbian so my apologies if any of the following isn't up to the standard of this board. I've just installed Armbian 5.38 stable Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) 4.14.18-sunxi on a Banana Pi. The same computer was previously running a domain controller under Bananian just fine. Installing Samba on Armbian works fine: r oot@Linux08:~# apt-get install samba attr Installing the packets to operate Samab as a DC also works fine: root@Linux08:~# apt-get install winbind libpam-winbind libnss-winbind libpam-krb5 krb5-config krb5-user However, attempting to provision a new Active Dirctory d…

I see a lot of tutorials online and they all have seems to have different ways of going about making a share and it seems most of them are logged into a user as opposed to root. I'm logged in to root through ssh so that might the the cause of many of my issues I believe. I did a simple apt install samba and it seems to be running fine. I see other tutorials recommending you install "smbclient" and "cifs-utils", is that necessary? Some of the tutorials also say to add user groups and to add settings to the firewall. I'm just using 1 user and don't have any firewalls installed, unless armbian comes with one by default. I think my my service is running fine thoug…

Hello, I am using armbian now for some time as a smb server on my Orange Pi 3. It's working but I am not really happy with the performance. I only get write speeds up to 30-40 MB/s. On netdata I saw that the cpu utilization is very unstable. The writing speed on the hdd is also not constant and oscillating like the cpu utilization. Does anybody have a clue why I have this oscillating cpu utilization and the low samba performance? Are there any tweaks to improve the performance? Short infos about the used system newest armbian version all devices connected over Gigabit LAN 2,5" USB 3.0 HDD connected on…

I have a Orange PI PC that I"m setting up as my file server with samba. I am using a hard drive with a SATA to USB adapter for my storage device. I've read and tried many HOW-TOs and none of them seem to get it working properly. Even though, they all say it is easy and it looks easy. I am able to see the shared folder over the network but Windows says that I don't have permissions to access it. One idea that I've had is that I'm not accessing the share folder through the config file. However I'm not sure how to properly access my HDD. Right now I am using the path that you would get from opening the disk on the desktop. Something l…

System: Armbian 5.38 stable Debian/stretch Hello, Samba is not working properly. Not shown in Network places (Ubuntu, Mint....). It is accessible only via smb: //xxx.xxx.xxx Terminal Info: systemctl status smbd systemd[1]: Starting Samba SMB Daemon... systemd[1]: smbd.service: Supervising process 30013 which is not our child. We'll most likely not notice when it exits. Started Samba SMB Daemon. journalctl -xe | grep smbd smbd[1026]: pam_unix(samba:session): session closed for user nobody " I used smbpasswd -a user" sudo[2743]: root : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/root ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/etc/i…

does anyone know of a version of armbian that would work on a samsung galaxy book go with a snapdragon 7c gen2? i traid the generic version and it booted to the grub, and then it restarted like all other distros i've tried. i can not find a distro to boot on this dang thing. anyone have any ideas on what to do or try? i've hit a dead end i gotta dig deeper to figure something out, so any thoughts on this would be helpful .. thanks in advance

Hello, I've been using the Banana Pi M2 Ultra for 2 years now as a mini 24/7 server with NAS and wireguard functionality etc. I started with a Crucial MX500 1TB SSD connected with the SATA interface and formatted as ext4, but not as OS partition, just for data. A few months ago the ssd occasionally disappeared and I had to restart / poweroff the device and after a restart everything was OK. But not the last time - after mounting the ssd I was shown an blank, empty ssd with no files. Testdisk shows all folders from the "root" folder of the partition, but nothing else, extundelete could also no help. So first question is: How can…

Hello, I'm looking for a recommendation about a SBC capable of: manage 2 x HGST HTS721010A9E630 (HDD 2,5", 1 TB) offer Gigabit ethernet connection I saw different threads where a mPCI SATA card is used (e.g. https://forum.armbian.com/topic/4845-marvell-based-4-ports-mpci-sata-30/), I don't know if there is a better option. Thanks for any tip, -f

Hi, I am new to this forum, and I am looking for a way to setup my OrangePi Zero 3 with headless without monitor. I read through this link, but it requires LAN access. I don't have LAN access and I managed to put the wifi setup in the img directly, and burn to the SD card. Somehow I still can't WIFI connected. Am I missing any addtional settings?

Hello, I'm looking to replace my x86 micro tower with a SBC, to mainly use it as a NAS and media player. On the hardware side, I would like to have a native SATA port (for the NAS hard disk), HDMI output and H.265 decoding (media player), at least 4GB of RAM (to be somewhat future-proof). Bluetooth is a plus to play some retro games Not sure about the OS storage: SD card, eMMC, an hard disk on another SATA port? At the moment I found two boards: the Radxa Rock 3A (with its DIY SATA over USB cable) and Odroid HC4. Both are supported by Armbian, but maybe there is a more recent board that I didn't find? Thanks.

I have attached sc16is740 to the I2C port of BPI. sc16is740 is a device that lets me work with i2c like a uart. The device is detected with the comand: sudo i2cdetect -y 0 nº48 00: – -- – -- – -- – -- – -- – -- – 10: – -- – -- – -- – -- – -- – -- – -- – -- 20: – -- – -- – -- – -- – -- – -- – -- – -- 30: – -- – -- – -- – -- – -- – -- – -- – -- 40: 40 – -- – -- – -- – 48 – -- – -- – -- – 50: – -- – -- – -- – -- – -- – -- – -- – -- 60: – -- – -- – -- – -- – -- – -- – -- – -- 70: 70 – -- – -- – -- – Then I have load the driver with: sudo modprobe sc16is7xx 0x48 Using: sudo modprobe sc16is7xx I see the mo…

Hi, I have an Orange Pi Zero configured as a Wireless Access Point (via armbian-config) and it works great. However, I want to be able to scan for wireless networks whilst configured as an AP. If I try scan, I get the following error: wlan0 Interface doesn't support scanning : Operation not supported Just wondering if this is a shortcoming of the driver or the XR819?

Hello guys. I have issue regarding with smart card reader interface. According to it's datasheet http://linux-sunxi.org/images/4/4b/Allwinner_H3_Datasheet_V1.2.pdf page " Support FIFOs for receive and transmit buffers (up to 128 characters) with threshold " But in practice, the size of FIFO is only 16 bytes. Is anybody worked with SCR interface? May be I must to select size of FIFO in some REGISTER? Thanks for help.

Screen goes black after starting kernel, i've installed the latest version of Armbian. Before that, there was no problem. I was using Armbian debian server

Hello I am new to the Pi-computers and was searching in the forum and the internet if i can find a solution to my problem but can't find any. So maybe you can help me. I'm using a BananaPi m1 with a 7" HDMI touch screen running armbian with GUI. Its ruuning fine with one little issue: When the system is temporary unused the screen should turn off/go to standby after a few minutes to save enery. The screensaver setting is working but with my BananaPi the scree just goe black but does not tunr off. If I connect the same screen to a Windows Computer the screenturns of with te screen saver. Any ideas what I can do to get…

Hi, I'm first time to lean that " Orange Pi" and Debian Linux system, I have two questions. 1. How to change that the scree picture or character after typing user name/password. 2. How to starting my own program after system boot-up finished. My program is connect to copy machine it will catch that using status and send back to server. Thanks

I am using armbian on banana pi m2 zero with screen 1920x360. For some reason display controller didn't tell edid, so banana using default value and it doesn't look right (only a few more than half of the screen displaying anything). I want to use this screen, so I want to override default values. How this can be done? I tried setenv video-mode sunxi:1920x360-24@60,monitor=hdmi saveenv but this didn't work (saveenv tells `Saving Environment to FAT... Unable to use mmc 0:1...`) and before booting u-boot tells `Loading Environment from FAT... Unable to use mmc 0:1...` I am using armbian jammy (Armbian_23.02.0-trunk_Bananapim2zero_jammy_current_5.15.80_x…

Hello Is there any way to get rid of the screen saver altogether? For now I have only managed and set it to not get 720 minutes = 12 hours. But I do not want either a black screen or that they will any picture at all. /ceddio

Is there a way to script downloading the Linux headers like armbian-config Headers?

Is it possible to use the nand-sata-install script non-interactively?

We had a power outage the other day and though I have UPS coverage on all my computers, TV's, switches, router and Arm boards I forgot to shut down the ARM boards gracefully before shutting off the UPS that protects them. Later, all my PI's booted back up just fine but my Le Potato is not responding. I verified that the SD card still shows a Linux system but am not sure what all to look at to repair boot problems. I tested the Le Potato with another fresh Armbian install and it booted up just fine so the hardware is not an issue. I am lamenting not having made a backup of the card before this happened but was still tweaking stuff and didn't think about it (next time I…

My 32GB SD Card have problems and i have buy new one. I have use Acronis True Image 2015 to clone the one Card to the other but the new one does not boot. Why????? Every normal Computer does cloning work with new Harddrive and now that Problem!

Hi, after cloning the working copy to SD cards is not working with new banana pi zero. all SD cards are working with same Banana pi zero form which image is cloned. OS - Armbian 5.41 Any solutions?

I have multiple Orangepi plus 2e. One of them has Debian Jessie (Linux OrangePI 3.4.39 #2 SMP PREEMPT armv7l GNU/Linux Debian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie)) installed on it. On this board I can't boot from SD card in order to change its OS. I have installed ARMBIAN 5.73 stable Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS 3.4.113-sun8i on the SD card. The SD card itself boot up perfectly on the other boards. SD card boot up log (I set the verbosity to 7 through armbianENV.txt): Spoiler U-Boot SPL 2017.05-armbian (Jun 15 2017 - 03:36:47) DRAM: 2048 MiB Trying to boot from MMC1 U-Boot 2017.05-armbian (Jun 15 2017 - 03:36:47 +0200) Allwinner Technology …

I've installed Armbian on my brand new Odroid N2. I realise it still is WIP, but almost everything works great. There is just one issue, which prevents me from setting it up the way I want. I use my eMMC card to boot the system. I've also added a larger A1 SD card for application data. However, after a reboot the SD card isn't recognized. There isn't even a message about it in dmesg log. But when, after booting, I remove the SD card and insert it, all of the sudden it's detected and mounted. Does anyone know how I kan make this happen at boot, so I don't need to physically access the device in order to use it after a reboot?

I have 2 32GB cards, one does 40/20MB/s the other 80/10MB/s, +-, as measured. Both class 10. I understand there are some limits on the SD bus, thus you can not use max speed a card may eventually provide. So my question, which one would be preferred ti be be used? 40/20 or 80/10. Thanks.

I am trying to compile such a program using SDL2, http://computingvoyage.com/2114/installing-sdl2-on-raspbian-jessie/ after the corresponding settings, the program successfully compiles and runs but receives the following message: Any hint?

Hello, I have tried to enable second SPI interface on orange PI, so far without any success, here is what I done (orange pi pc+) first I look at script.bin/fex and saw there is spi1 configuration, uncommend lines, edit a little: [spi0] spi_used = 1 spi_cs_bitmap = 1 spi_mosi = port:PC00<3><default><default><default> spi_miso = port:PC01<3><default><default><default> spi_sclk = port:PC02<3><default><default><default> spi_cs0 = port:PC03<3><1><default><default> [spi1] spi_used = 1 spi_cs_bitmap = 1 spi_cs0 = port:PA13<2><1><default><defa…

hi, i have a c compiled app & i would like to encrypt it but using H3 implemented security to protect it is this even possible ?

EDIT: This is NOT about a (hidden) backdoor but just a local privileges escalation that affects one single 3.4 kernel variant for 2 Allwinner SoCs. In case you came here through lurid headlines please read this comment here first and help stop spreading further BS like "all Allwinner devices contain a hidden backdoor" -- the code has been found since Allwinner could be convinced to open their Github repos in the past so everyone is able to audit their Android kernel source! It has been brought to our attention two days ago on 2016-04-30 in linux-sunxi IRC that Allwinner's 3.4 legacy kernel for H3/A83T/H8 contains a nasty local privileges escalation. Any process …

I want to put BRO/Suricata as well as some threat intelligence and stuff on an all in one security router on a PI (orange - rapberry - whatever) I tried Openwrt and love the fact that LUCi comes with it and hence network admin job is easy - however installing Bro & Suricata and finding compatible hardware is a challenge (specially with the hardware thing (not able to chose many boards just because they lack support also not able to choose many usb wifi cuz they lack drivers ) I was told for SBCs i should use armbian specially being debian all my security software will run easier as well as better hardware support but I am afraid it will be heavier on my boar…

As of 25 April, one year after the release of Debian 8, alias "Jessie", and nearly three years after the release of Debian 7, alias "Wheezy", regular security support for Wheezy comes to an end. The Debian Long Term Support (LTS) Team will take over security support. https://www.debian.org/News/2016/20160425 Important: Wheezy-LTS only supports i386 and amd64. The support for armel and armhf is waiting for confirmation from all related Debian Teams. Users of other architectures are encouraged to upgrade to Debian 8 ("Jessie").

--- armbian-hardware-optimization.orig 2020-05-17 10:53:46.352578716 +0200 +++ armbian-hardware-optimization 2020-05-17 10:54:02.052970679 +0200 @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ [[ -f $prefix/cpuinfo_cur_freq ]] && chmod +r $prefix/cpuinfo_cur_freq 2> /dev/null # enable compression where not exists - find /etc/logrotate.d/. -type f | xargs grep -H -c 'compress' | grep 0$ | cut -d':' -f1 | xargs -L1 sed -i '/{/ a compress' + find /etc/logrotate.d/. -type f | xargs grep -H -c 'compress' | grep 0$ | cut -d':' -f1 | xargs -L1 sed -i '/{/ a compress' 2> /dev/null sed -i "s/#compress/compress/" /etc/logrotate.conf …

I like armbian-debian but don't like that i can only do the checksum for the 'img.xz' and not the actual image. Once i extract the .img from the img.xz, i don't see how i can check the actual .img since there is no checksum for it; even though it is very difficult for malware to get on the .img, it is possible. I realize that if the .img.xz's checksum is good, then the .img image is good. But once I expose the .img to my computer, if there is malware unknowingly present, then the .img could become infected and I have no way to check it. My orangepiplus2e is 32-bit. Thanks

Hello everyone, i'm currently running a Nanopi M4 on Armbian 4.4.190-rk3399 with a DVBSky S960 DVB-S tuner. I always compiled the modules "dvb_usb_dvbsky", "m88ds3103", "ts2020" and "dvb_usb_v2" manually to enable support on Armbian. But since the upgrade to 4.4.190-rk3399, every time I try load the module "dvb_usb_dvbsky" I get a segmentation fault and my board completely locks up. I really have no clue what to do and would appreciate any help. Thanks in advance! Here is the corresponding dmesg log: Spoiler Oct 3 00:32:32 localhost kernel: [ 7.874055] usb 5-1.1.4.2: dvb_usb_v2: found a 'DVBSky S960/S86…

Hi I tried to install selinux on my OPI Jessie but i find out selinux-policy-default has problem with debian jessie and even it's not integrated with kernel .after all i tried to use apparmor but it's not integrated too.I find this doc to cross compile and add apparmor or selinux but seems it's not work because git clone https://github.com/orangepi-xunlong/u-boot-orangepi.git doesn't exist ! After all ,how can i use selinux or apparmor on my OPI?

Can I use i2c ssd1306 display as "main", like this?

Getting into buildroot and yocto seems a bit too much for me to get an A+B style update possibility. I would like to stick with the quality images provided by Armbian. The following applies to a NanoPi-NEO3 others SBC might have different partition layouts. From what I understood is that uboot looks for /boot in /dev/mmcblk0p1 reads the boot.cmd/scr and armbianEnv.txt and then boots the kernel accordingly. The armbianEnv.txt seems to point the kernel to the root partition using the rootdev directive. If /dev/mmcblk0p1 would now only hold /boot would it be possible to point to a different partition for the rootfs using armbianEnv.txt? …

Hello everyone! I am trying to use serial port for connection with GSM SIM800l module but with no luck what I have to do to be able to use UART0_RXD ,UART0_TXD PINS 6,8,10 what will be the port than /dev/ttyS0 ?? Christ is risen! (ХриÑÑ‚Ð¾Ñ Ð’Ð¾ÑкреÑе)

To control from terminal a remote orangepizeroplus in case of lockup, I connected the otg to the USB port of a second Opi0+ modifying a usb cable to which I disconnected the power cables (+red and -black). I gave these commands on the orange to monitor: # echo "g_serial" >> /etc/modules mkdir -p /etc/systemd/system/serial-getty@ttyGS0.service.d nano /etc/systemd/system/serial-getty@ttyGS0.service.d/10-switch-role.conf #add 2 lines save and exit [Service] ExecStartPre=-/bin/sh -c "echo 2 > /sys/bus/platform/devices/sunxi_usb_udc/otg_role" systemctl --no-reload enable serial-getty@ttyGS0.service echo "ttyGS0" >> /etc/securetty reboot on the secon…

Hello, Today I found that the "serial-getty@ttyS0.service" service restarts every minute. It says "serial-getty@ttyS0.service: Succeeded." in the syslog/journal and then starts again, so it exited with code 0. The restart counter is already at 3085, so it's been like that for 2 days. No output is logged from the service itself. So I looked up its start command and ran it interactively. Again, with no output, after a minute, it returned with code 0. So I straced that thing and saw that it did lots of things, then print "Password:" somewhere, wait a while and then print "Login timed out after 60 second" and exit with code 0. strace /sbin/a…

I have written a Python script that receives an online link from the server and downloads it and plays it simultaneously. After that, it plays it from the device unless it receives a new video link. I have written a service file that runs this code once the device boots. Service Script [Unit] Description=My device boot script service After=multi-user.target [Service] Type=idle User=root Environment=DISPLAY=:0 Restart=on-failure ExecStart=/root/Video_project/start.sh [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target start.sh script #!/bin/bash #exec 1&…

Hi, I am using Rock Pi 4B and want to be able to turn the system on after sleep (suspend/hibernate or any other state that would allow it). Previously, I have used MRAA library to set an interrupt, and called system("shutdown now") inside interrupt code. I did it according to the following post and according to the MRAA examples. I wrote a shell script, which executes the MRAA program. Shell script, in its turn, is called by a service on a start-up. So, with this method I was able to shutdown the system, but I cannot get out of this state via button press. I researched few posts, such as: 1, 2, and 3. It looks like either I have to modify …

I have a NanoPI M4 hooked up to a Uniroi 1024x600px HDMI screen running Armbian Buster 5.10.43-rockchip64 booting to a console (no X). My issue is, that the console resolution is set to 1024x768px after boot which makes the screen almost unreadable. Can I somehow fix the console resolution to 1024x600 (e.g. by setting some values in armbianEnv.txt or similar)?

For a project, I need the Linux desktop to be set to 16 bits per pixel. I can't find any documentation about how to do this on the mainline kernel. Anyone?

Hello, I used to set dram freq at 132mhz on previous kernels, how can I do it now ? Linux nanopineo 5.15.48-sunxi #22.05.3 SMP Wed Jun 22 07:35:10 UTC 2022 armv7l armv7l armv7l GNU/Linux

Hi all. I want set static ip ethernet and wifi but when i set static ip ethernet. Wifi not working, I can ping to my gateway but can not ping to google. this is my setting: /etc/network/interfaces source /etc/network/interfaces.d/* auto eth0 #allow-hotplug eth0 #no-auto-down eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.20.233 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.20.1 dns-nameservers 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4 auto wlan0 #allow-hotplug wlan0 #no-auto-down wlan0 iface wlan0 inet dhcp wpa-ssid "myssid" wpa-psk "mypass"

I want to set static IP in armbian, I edit interfaces in /etc/network as follow auto lo iface lo inet loopback iface eth0 inet static address 172.19.19.110 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 172.19.19.253 but when in terminal get ifconfig , address ,...there isn't exist and ping address is `Destination host unreachable` what am I missing??

With the latest version of Armbian I am no longer able to edit the IP from Armbian-config, is it possible to have instructions to set the static IP?

On my Orange Pi Zero I run Armbian Buster and the only software running is Shairport. Unfortunately I used to have a crackling noise every 20-40 secund which was solved after entering root@orangepizero:~# renice -n -19 -u shairport-sync 110 (user ID) old priority 0, new priority -19 So far so good - but after a reboot the prio is again 0. So I tried to use nice nice -19 shairport-sync but after a reboot the prio was again 0 How can I set the priority of all process run by the user (-u) “shairport-sync” to -19 when they start?

Hello, What is the correct way to set armbianEnv.txt values when the distro is being built? Specifically I'd like to set kernel verbosity to a non-zero value? There does not seem to be a skeleton file so is all content generated dynamically? TIA

Hello I need to increase the size of the CMA on my armbian set up. But I've not found a way to do it. Is there a kernel command line option I need to pass to increase the CMA size, or is this done in the kernel configuration before building? Thanks in advance Andrew

In the notes for the current Buster download, the mac assigned on first boot is supposed to be recorded in the /boot/uEnv.txt. However no such file is in the /boot directory. Do I need to create this file, and make the appropriate entry myself, or is the assigned address stored else where? Thanks for your time. William.

I'm using the image Armbian_5.38_Orangepizero_Debian_stretch_next_4.14.14.7z. My NetworkManager version is 1.6.2-3. Certain NetworkManager options like wifi.scan-rand-mac-address=yes or wifi.cloned-mac-address=random for NetworkManager results in not being able to connect to a wireless Access Point anymore via nmtui. On the other hand, manually spoofing the MAC address via ip, ifconfig and macchanger and using nmtui afterwards works in all three cases.

Hello everyone, I have a nanopi r2s running the latest minimal focal image, and I'm having trouble with the network configuration. Context: I have an intranet connected to the LAN port (lan0), and my home network connected to the WAN port (eth0). The intranet does not connect to the internet, and both networks have functional DHCP servers on different IP ranges. For some reason the system thinks it should try to access the internet via my intranet, which is definitely not going to work. Suppose the intranet is 10.0.0.0/24, how can I tell the system to use this interface if and only if I'm accessing addresses that falls under this address …

Hi, I use Armbian on an SBC as an airgapped device with no connection to the internet. Each time I use the device I want to set the correct date and time, I can't work out I do this manually. Any help greatfully received.

I'm struggling to use the armbian-config tool to setup a hotspot when I have two radios. Can someone share with me the intended workflow/step using armbian-config? I get asked twice for Default interface and the 2nd dialog is throwing me off. My board and radios work fine, but my network is suffering from insufficient user IQ. :-(

I have a board(nanopi r4s with rk3399 and 4g ram) and I want to run a minecraft server on it. (with adoptopenjdk arm64) After flashing the SD image I have the following problems: I can't find the IP address of my board through the IP finding tool. (unable to ssh to my system) # This happened on many OSes, including Debian OS in my VM $ ls ./ . .. java (many other files) $ ./java bash: ./java: No such file or directory Something must went wrong... How to plug the network cable? There are 2 ETH ports on the board. The first one has a "WAN" on it. Another one has a "LAN" on it. (scroll down) …

Hey guys, brand new to linux so sorry for obvious/easy question being obvious/easy I wanted to set up Pi Hole on my new Renegade, but I cannot figure out how to make/find a static ip address. I have found the IPv4 settings, tried to create an ip address in there, but I don't think it worked. Thanks for any help or advice you can give me, after I get the static IP address set hopefully I won't have any more problems setting up Pi Hole. Thanks again!

Hello, I've started a project where I'd like to setup a Bananapi M5 with two wifi adapters to use in hotel room for example. So one wifi adapter will connect to the hotel wifi, and the other will be in access point mode with dhcp for my devices to connect to. I think the proper terminology is AP-STA. So I have purchased one Comfast CF-953AX which uses the mt7921au chipset (0e8d:7961) to test in access point mode as it supports this: Supported interface modes: * managed * AP * AP/VLAN * monitor * P2P-client * P2P-GO The issue I have come across is the hostapd fails to start: nl80211: Failed to start radar dete…

I see multiple projects on GitHub for getting RTL8812AU devices working on Armbian. Right now, I'm working with a NanoPi M1 while I wait for a rock64 to arrive in the mail. I can get a driver to build, make and make install, but I cannot get the device recognized. The last project I tried was this: https://github.com/diederikdehaas/rtl8812AU

Hi all, I am wanting to setup a mail server on my Helios4. I went through the armbian-config approach and saw that there is an item under softy called ISPConfig which relates to mail servers etc. Are there any instructions/documentation around setting up a mail server in this manner? Or is there a better option? Thanks in advance

I need to set these up: LAFVIN 2 4/2 8/3 2/3 5 Inch Tft Lcd Touch Display Screen Panel 320x240 Spi Serial Ili9341 Compatible With Arduino Uno R3/Mega2560 (To be used as an actual screen) Night Vision Camera ule for Raspberry Pi 4, Mini 5MP 1080P HD Video OV5647 Sensor Webcam Kit with Embedded IR-Cut They're listed according to how they're labeled in the online store. I tried multiple approach no to avail. Can anyone help me?

Hello everybody, im running a Helios64 with most current Debian Buster5.10.16 image. I was freshly setting up the device and i am now failing to assign a static ip address to it. I installed Pi-hole, Home assistant and openmediavault over softy. During the pihole installation i can setup a static ip address, but after a reboot i still get the old DHCP addess. I assigned it over the OMV interface but its not applied after a reboot, the armbian-config tool doesnt open when i want to change to static and i also tried netplan. DHCP is also turned off on my router and switch. i rebooted all of the devices mult…

I am trying to set up a WiFi access point on Hummingboard 2 which has Armbian Bionic. I am having trouble setting up WiFi AP on the HummingBoard 2. I was able to set this up in a Raspberry Pi using a combination of hostapd and dnsmasq, but having issues on Hummingboard 2 and Armbian. We are operating a sensor using the Board and would like to transfer files using the WiFi generated by the board. /etc/rc.local has the following: sleep 5 rfkill unblock wifi /usr/sbin/hostapd /etc/hostapd.conf systemctl restart dnsmasq iptables-restore < /etc/iptables.ipv4.nat NetworkManager.conf has the following: [main] dns=defau…

Hi, I run a cubietruck appliance, booting by sd-card->sata (stretch). For availability reasons, I have to build up a spare part machine for quick exchange procedure if hardware/ software will crash. Thus I take a second cubietruck and copy both sd-card and ssd to second ones as a first step. How to tweak the copies to get it up and running? I am not sure about understanding the boot procedure. I assume, I have to change the UUID´s in /boot/armbianEnv.txt and in fstab to the second ssd/sda1. I tried this in the past, but didn´t succeed. Now I want to give it another try. Could someone give advice, if I am right with the UUID issue …

Hi, I need to help for understandable how set right clock hierarchy for i2s bus with external master-clock signal. This mode supported rockchip processors (RK3328, RK3399) but there are very small information how it can do. Today we have out of box in armbian for Nanopi Neo3 working I2S with master-clock from PLL, but I want change master-clock source from PLL to external signal. In souce and clock debugfs I find that I2S1 ("i2s1_pre") can be clocked from 4 sources: clk_i2s1_div, clk_i2s1_frac, clkin_i2s1, xin12m. By default parent for i2s1_pre set to clk_i2s1_div, which have parent cpll. Hence we must change parent for i2s1_pre to clkin_i2s1, but clock clki…

Hello, I want to transfer .img files to bananapi. These weight gigabytes. I notice the eth0 interface was wrongly set up to 100Mbp/s I used ethtool to set it up correctly pi@Liberty:~$ sudo ethtool eth0 | grep -i speed Speed: 100Mb/s sudo ethtool -s eth0 autoneg on speed 1000 duplex full pi@Liberty:~$ sudo ethtool eth0 | grep -i speed Speed: 1000Mb/s Now I thought the sftp limitation of 1Mb/s was over, it is not. Are there ucap / bandwith limitation settings in Armbian? if so how to remove it? Thanks, SoSie

hi everyone ! i want to share my nodered service with hostapd hotspot service to allow hotspot clients connect nodered ... service ip is localhost:1880 (internal) hotspot getway is 127.24.1.1 thank for help

Hi, I am new to armbian. I noticed that I cant see shell history after reboot. I thinks this is from zram. How can I configure to see shell history after reboot ?

Hi everyone! I'm software developer but have no (or little) clue about electronics & electricity, and would like to dive into the SBC world. I still don't have a goal other than have fun and support this community during my free time. I probably need to buy some devices (my budget is limited): A voltmeter A soldering station. Which filler material is more appopriate? An USB-to-TTL adapter to debug the serial output. Specs? Last but not least: an SBC! Which one is good but currently lacks support from this community? Something else? Thank you for your advices!

I'm working on a project that utilises AI, GPS, Bluetooth... and i can't decide whether i should choose OPi or RPi. I've been researching for the past couple of days and I'm amazed at what the OPi can do, it's crazy for it's price. But my concern is how little support and community there is out there, idk if it's worth the risk. So if any one worked with it can you please tell me what kind of difficulties have you faced and how similar is it to working with the raspberry?

Hi! I've been running two sbc (Odroid HC2) for about 1,5 years. I recently realised that the os it is running on is outdated (Debian Stretch with Armbian Linux 4.14.150-odroidxu4). There is a nextcloud instance running on it and I really (!) like the stability of my setup. So far, I've had one (1) crash in 1,5 years on a system that is running 24/7, maybe heat related in the hot summer. Reboot automatically once a week, nightly off-site backup, login via ssh-keys. So my question is...: Shall I update and if yes shall I do this from a fresh install or is there a built-in way? Thanks!

Hi, following the documentation, I used nand-sata-install to boot from SD, system on SATA / USBwithout any problems. My backup solution (raspiBackup.sh) now creates a 16GB image for the SD card, even if it is just used to boot. Is it possible to shrink the partition? Thank you René

Hello I tried to shrink my sdcard (64gb, 17gb in use) and copy it to a 32gb card. I found a tutorial, but it don't work I fownloaded gparted and create a bootable device. The instruction 1.resize2fs /dev/sda1 [new size of the partition] in my case the original card is sdc1 2. Copy the shrinked device to the new device dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb In my case dd if=/dev/sdc of=/dev/mmcblk0 Is it really correct to use it without the "1" ? Sda, not sda1? However It didn't work.... Gparted gui shows me, that the original sd card has the original size 58.24gb. But I shrinked it to 27gb..... wi…

Hy i use octoprint on my orange pi. Now i need to resart and shutdown the system by octoprint. So i try shutdown -h 0 or systemctl poweroff nothing will work, cause i need to authenti. the user by password. so i tried to add the user to the sudoers... not work this is my line. i added the code at the end of the file myuser ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /sbin/shutdown

Hello forumees. I am running as root on an OrangePI Zero+ which uses a H2 processor running a CL version of arrmbian 3.4.113 which works fine. I have recently obtained a SimCom SIM7600CE GSM/GPS module which has only a USB interface. I tracked down drivers for it but the Linux version must be compiled to a module which I have managed (with a number of warnings) after a couple of hiccups. Now trying to install the compiled module is resulting in error messages. I think the problem is compatability with armbian which is beyond my expertise, so I am asking for help. Below is the CL dialog of my attempts to install the module. ```````````````` root@gpsC…

This is a bunch of background info, scroll down to TL;DR for my question.... Hello, I am working on developing an application to make single board computers easier to use for non-technical users. You can think of it as something similar to yunohost or freedombox, but with more hand-holding involved around the hardware & network setup. I'm trying to enable people like my mother who've never seen or used a terminal/shell before to be able to set up and operate a server in their home. The general process looks something like this: user downloads my cross platform desktop application called "seedpacket" they run the app and go through a ser…

Hello I wanted to post on here regarding a new project we have been working on called SimpNAS. Its similar to OpenMediaVault or FreeNAS but simpler and more basic. Its currently in Beta but we are looking to have a stable release by the time Kobol ARM NAS gets released. It can be installed on armbian devices as long as it has two hard drives one for the OS and one for Data. For example we have it installed on an ODroid HC2, but can be installed on any PC. Feedback will be greatly appreciated. Check it out here https://simpnas.com Thanks for looking

I am looking for a device that has good support for being WiFi access point and being in client (managed) mode at the same time. Which can you recommend?

Hi, Have a problem with Orange Pi Zero on Armbian Mainline kernel . It's based on Debian 9. It's Linux orangepizero 4.14.14-sunxi .

I am trying to auto login to Armbian 21.08.2 on an AML-S905X-CC I have found this link on the forum, but I am not following what I need to do to skip the login. forum.armbian.com/topic/16788-auto-user-login/ Any help would be appreciated.

Hello I have an Orange pi Prime and I need help getting it to boot directly to the desktop bypassing the login prompt. I have been searching for a solution but the threads I've found are pretty outdated. Is there a way to accomplish this? No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Debian Description: Armbian 24.2.1 bookworm Release: 12 Codename: bookworm 6.6.16-current-sunxi64

Hi, Initially my Armbian_5.75_Orangepilite_Ubuntu_bionic_next_4.19.20 was booting fast. After the apt-get upgrade it boots very slowly: [ 7.747226] lima 1c40000.gpu: pp1 - mali400 version major 1 minor 1 [ 7.747259] lima 1c40000.gpu: l2 cache 64K, 4-way, 64byte cache line, 64bit external bus [ 7.752757] [drm] Initialized lima 1.0.0 20170325 for 1c40000.gpu on minor 1 I wait for 10 minutes from the above row to the login below: Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS homesystem ttyS0 homesystem login: Any idea what could be the issue? This is already with loglevel 7 on boot debug. Regards

Hi, Today I updated to Armbian v25.2 and did the good old reboot after the update. I never had issue with runing the SBC headless, but since the update I get a blinking blue status LED for a couple of minutes until the system boots. When I tried to plug in a monitor to get an idea what is going on, the SBC boots normally. Monitoring with HDMI monitor plugged in: https://paste.next.armbian.com/ehirazemot Monitoring without HDMI monitor plugged in: https://paste.next.armbian.com/zaqipatoci Most notable difference are: [ 105.189528] meson-drm ff900000.vpu: [drm] *ERROR* flip_done timed out [ 105.189543] meson-drm ff900000.vpu: [d…

EDIT: I tried to plug it directly in router and speed is OK now. Weird, but it's fine now. Please close this topic. Hello, I just bought Orange Pi 3 LTS to set it up as small off-site backup using OMV and USB HDD. I installed Armbian_23.02.2_Orangepi3-lts_bullseye_current_5.15.93.img on eMMC and installed OMV using armbian-config. I noticed SMB and FTP speeds are slow (around 90 Mbps) so I installed iperf to test it properly and speed is capped on 94 Mbps. I have gigabit switch and interface is connected with GE, if I plug the cable to other device, it works just fine. So there must be some issue on Orange Pi 3 LTS. I searched the internet and speed shoul…

Hello, Recently I installed docker on my armbian and motd got broken. Previously it was printing correctly information about traffic: RX today: 20,72 GiB But after installing docker and playing with some images motd is displaying following error: RX today: Error: Not all requested interfaces found in database or given interfaces aren't unique. The problem is that docker adds new network interfaces that are not initialized in vnstat. I've solved my issue by adding the new docker interfaces in vnstat: vnstat --add -i docker0 vnstat --add -i veth160e0f9 Perhaps /etc/update-motd.d/30-armbian-sysinfo script should somehow detect new interfac…

Hi everyone, I have a Helios4 NAS on which I have installed Armbian 5.85. I used the Armbian-Config to install OMV 4.1.23-1 (Arrakis). I used OMV to configure some CMB/CIFS shares which were working properly. I connected to my server via SSH, and performed an apt update/upgrade, and I think this broke my SMB shares. According to my Googling, Debian now uses smbd instead of samba. When I try to access my shares at \\192.168.1.x I get a message that says "The specified network name is no longer available." When I run sudo service smbd status, I get the following: ● smbd.service - Samba SMB Daemon Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/smbd.service; enabled; vendor p…

again module missed very usefull snd_aloop missed plz add it # CONFIG_SND_ALOOP is not set CONFIG_SND_ALOOP=y but very rare caiaq included ))) CONFIG_SND_USB_CAIAQ=m CONFIG_SND_USB_CAIAQ_INPUT=y

Hi! I'm trying to star the SNMP daemon, but i have : pcilib: Cannot open /proc/bus/pci pcilib: Cannot find any working access method. pcilib: pci_init failed Warning: no access control information configured. (Config search path: /etc/snmp:/usr/share/snmp:/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/snmp:/home/pepeluis/.snmp) It's unlikely this agent can serve any useful purpose in this state. Run "snmpconf -g basic_setup" to help you configure the snmpd.conf file for this agent. Error opening specified endpoint "" Server Exiting with code 1 I write in snmpd.conf agentAddress udp:161 doesn't work,,,the same,,, …

When Ubuntu server – legacy kernel. When i open mopidy and Logitech media server ports 9000 and 6680 should be open. But only port 22 is open. I use orange pi plus. I have not had that problem with any other os on raspberry pi or orange pi

Hi, I recently bought an Odroid HC1 and installed Debian 8 on it. I am being quite happy so far with the installation, however this softy installer is very frustrating. I tried to install Syncthing, which failed to start, then now Webmin, hoping to be of "smaller scale", but no lack. It repeatedly fails to do something, displaying the errors behind the curses window, so I had to stop it with Ctrl-C. Then I got back to the menu and after quit, a cleared screen. Brilliant. Are there logs stored somewhere, at least? I checked /var/log/, but got no further. Or how I am supposed to go through failing installations? Thank you,

Hi, I've read this post but it's two years old. What I need is a SBC (in order to save some energy costs, otherwise have to go to x86) that could be used as a small SOHO firewall and router and also small file and backup server. I'd need gigabit ethernet (preferably with dedicated controller), at least one, could buy a dongle to have another port. A SATA interface would be nice, otherwise USB 3 is needed. Probably at least two USB 3, one for the ethernet dongle, another for the SATA disk. UASP support would be great. The lower the cost and the more stable the best. What do you recommend?

Hey Igor, I noticed on another thread that you're running the ClearFog Pro on a 4.12 kernel; What did you do to get the mv88e6xxx working? Every build against mainline I do for either 4.4.96 or 4.13.11 ends up with a port that doesn't properly detect link status (up or down) and doesn't receive any traffic.