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Hi I am building armbian image for Nanopi Neo. I need to include SWUpdate package in my armbian build. The already built SWUpdate package does not work for me, because I need to disable CONFIG_SIGNED_IMAGES. As far as I understand, I need to rebuild SWUpdate inside the armbian build system. Can you please help me to understand where I should write commands to build SWUpdate from source (git repo), so that armbian build system will put the built binary and libraries into the resulting image?

Hi, I use kernel version 4.19.62-sunxi on my Orange Pi One and I want compile the following devide tree overlay: /dts-v1/; /plugin/; / { compatible = "allwinner,sun4i-a10", "allwinner,sun7i-a20", "allwinner,sun8i-h3", "allwinner,sun50i-a64", "allwinner,sun50i-h5"; fragment@0 { target = <&pio>; __overlay__ { gpio_button_0: gpio_button_0 { pins = "PA20"; function = "gpio_in"; bias-pull-up; }; }; }; fragment@1 { target-path = "/"; __overlay__ { gpio-keys-user { compatible = "gpio-keys"; pinctrl-names = "default"; pinctrl-0 = <&gpio_button_0>; power_button { label = "GPIO Ke…

Version `25.8.2` of kernel, dtb and/or header package on Armbian Ubuntu Noble break `zfs-dkms` (I'm pretty sure kernel module `zfs` was not built with success) I had to run: ```sh sudo apt install linux-image-current-meson64=25.8.1 linux-headers-current-meson64=25.8.1 linux-dtb-current-meson64=25.8.1 && sudo dpkg-reconfigure zfs-dkms ``` I couldn't look in to the problem, because I was busy doing something else when I was just upgrading every package on the system. I had to prioritize quickly fixing it before another user arrives so I just reverted the suspicious packages (the three I mentioned in the title) I can't lo…

Hi, Got a bit of a strange situation here. Trying to get H3 I2S working in both playback and capture. Tweaked script.bin and got the I2S0 up and running. Playback in 96K and 192K tested and is ok. Capture though is giving me a headache. When I try to use arecord it does work and generates a wav file but upon playing the file with aplay and although the samplerate (96K or 192K) and channel numbers (Stereo) show ok on screen, the audio result from this recording is always mono and looks that the included samples numer is divided by 2 thus the playback time is shortened accordingly, eg if I record 10 sec, a 5 sec playing time happens. Verified the…

After apt-get upgrade I got 4.14.18-sunx installed on my organge pi+. docker daemon won't start. I tried removing and reinstalling it. tried dev, next and nightly builds to no success. docker gives an error that no overlay fs is available in kernel. tried ARMBIAN 5.60 stable and 5.64 nightly >apt-get install docker-ce fails with Setting up docker-ce (18.06.1~ce~3-0~debian) ... Job for docker.service failed. See 'systemctl status docker.service' and 'journa lctl -xn' for details. invoke-rc.d: initscript docker, action "start" failed. dpkg: error processi…

I've spent a day going crazy trying to sort this and am failing. I want to share an NTFS USB hard drive via samba to a windows machine. At the moment I have shared the home directory which works fine but whenever I try to access the NTFS USB drive I get a permission error from the Windows machine. As far as I can glean it's to do with mounting permissions on the NTFS drive but how do I sort this when armbian automounts the drive?

Setup: I have a small home network with several SBCs, PCs, NASs and two devices are running Armbian ARMBIAN 5.59, ARMBIAN 5.59 stable Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS 4.14.65-sunxi for the Orange Pi Zero and ARMBIAN 5.59 testing Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS 4.14.65-sunxi for the Cubieboard 1. The OPi Zero runs the PiHole application for the whole network. There's a MikroTik router which does DHCP for the network. Problem: The Armbian devices are not able to do a local name resolution, a `ping router.lan` or `ping orangepizero.lan` or `ping cubieboard.lan` from either device gives the error: "Name or service not known". A ping by IP is without issues, same pro…

Hello In raspberry pi there is an option to add a boot splash screen, looking in this forum I havent found and instructions or if it is even possible. I am not interested with u-boot splash screen but when the Linux start booting. I am using 3.5" SPI LCD and I do see the boot logs when the Linux is loading. So my question is if there is any guide of how to do that boot splash screen in Armbian or there is no way to do that?

Of the boards supported by Armbian, which do you prefer for multiple audio devices and audio related applications? I need to control two audio streams, in and out each and add information to the streams as appropriate. I would like to use as little external hardware as possible so stereo mic or dual mic input and stereo out would be awesome. I'm a little overwhelmed by the choices, so opinions are definitely welcome here.

Hello there, I have 1 Nano Pi K2 S905X SBC with Armbian Ubuntu Bionic Installed. Externally connected with USB HDD (Toshiba 1TB) as a backup storage. How am I going to configure the Armbian Ubuntu Bionic to become something like Samba / NAS so that I can access the Ext USB HDD via Local IP. I tried few times and can't made it successfully for 1TB USB HDD as a network drive. Can someone experts here assist me on this matter? Thanks in advance. Best regards.

NanoPi M4v2 with official NVME hat kit, boot from EMMC with OS: Armbian w/ Debian Bullseye, Linux 5.10.12-rockchip64 SSD: Kioxia XG6 (Thinkpad part) That also happened with 5.9 kernel. Not tested with other OS. When doing cold boot, always got kernel messages like: Feb 11 01:14:34 localhost kernel: [ 3.102606] nvme 0000:01:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002) Feb 11 01:14:34 localhost kernel: [ 3.106554] input: gpio-keys as /devices/platform/gpio-keys/input/input0 Feb 11 01:14:34 localhost kernel: [ 3.107121] of_cfs_init Feb 11 01:14:34 localhost kernel: [ 3.107161] of_cfs_init: OK Feb 11 01:14:34 localhost kernel: [ 3.129048] dw…

How to compile DKMS on the board? I am trying this for the past week without success and starting to go crazy... The last kernel which worked is 6.11.2. I tried with zfs-dkms (from apt's repositories and from manually build .deb from zfs git) and with aic8800 drivers. I've tried Bookworm image, tried Noble. Tried -current and -edge kernels. Tried many kernel revisions. Tried to build kernels (image & headers) with compile.sh with docker, without docker. Updated my x86 Debian to Trixie. Compilers are same on the build host and on the board: longanpi-3h# dpkg -l | grep -i gcc ii gcc 4:13…

OrangePiZero root@orangepizero:~# uname -r 4.19.59-sunxi root@orangepizero:~# cat /etc/os-release PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)" NAME="Debian GNU/Linux" VERSION_ID="10" VERSION="10 (buster)" VERSION_CODENAME=buster ID=debian HOME_URL="https://www.debian.org/" SUPPORT_URL="https://www.debian.org/support" BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.debian.org/" root@orangepizero:~# Only run sud apt get update / upgrade and then sudo apt install docker.io however it threw out this Job for docker.service failed because the control process exited with error code. Se…

Hi, I'm using an Orange Pi PC and i'm having some issues using traffic control. I'm using the correct network interface using the command tc qdisc add dev wlx30b5c214fe58 root handle 1: cbq avpkt 1000 bandwidth 100mbit tc class add dev wlx30b5c214fe58 parent 1: classid 1:1 cbq rate 500kbit allot 1500 prio 5 bounded isolated tc class add dev wlx30b5c214fe58 parent 1: classid 1:2 cbq rate 500kbit allot 1500 prio 5 bounded isolated tc class add dev wlx30b5c214fe58 parent 1: classid 1:1 cbq rate 10kbit allot 1500 prio 5 bounded isolated and i received the error RTNETLINK answers: No such file or directory After some reading i saw that is missing 'kernel-modules-e…

We have added some custom files inside `/build/userpatches/overlay`, which is as follows: /build/userpatches/overlay /log-configurations log-config /scripts myscript.sh /services myservice.service We are building our image with the following command: sudo ./compile.sh CLEAN_LEVEL="" BOARD=zeropi BRANCH=dev RELEASE=buster BUILD_MINIMAL=no BUILD_DESKTOP=no KERNEL_ONLY=no KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no COMPRESS_OUTPUTIMAGE=sha,gpg,img The build completes successfully, but when we open the Image file in PowerISO, we cannot locate our custom files inside the …

Hi, I'm experiencing OragePI PC with Zoneminder for the development of a video surveillance system. It's possible to insert Zoneminder in armbian repository? The update of this important program in automatic mode would be outstanding. Thank you.

Hi At the beginning I would like to say hi. I do not know English well, so please be patient. I will try to describe my problem. I have a Nanopi K2 and a Waveshare 7 LCD HDMI (C) display. After connecting and starting Nanopi, nothing is displayed. It seems to me that the computer can not properly start. When I turn on the Nanopi and the system will load, then I connect the display and it works correctly. Picture and touch work. What could be the reason? Where to start? Regards Trebor

Hi there. I have some audio project on different SOM/SOC boards, now my task is to bring an i2s DAC on RK3399. I use external high-quality clock for i2s and need to make the Rockchip the masterclock slave. This is the case where I find no tail to pull yet, due to VERY cumbersome device tree, poorly documented and poorly explored. For instance, the CPU datasheet says that I2S_MCLK is output only, whilst I could find the opposite in the TRM. Moreover, the clock tree explained there, says that I can use CLKIN_I2S not only for i2s interfaces, but for spdif also! (Also there is explained some "bitclock slave mode", it's even implemented in the DAI driver,…

Hello dear developers and visitors to the forum. I have compiled my core for the opi3 board, but I do not know what to do to test my core. There is little information on the u-boot bootloader and I can’t configure it on my kernel, if I replace the vmlinuz-5.4.7-sunxi64 file, the board does not start, u-boot reports that there is no kernel image. I turn to professionals, please teach me how to work with U-Boot.

I've been trying to setup my Orange PI PC to be my file/media server. I used a "HOW-TO" on setting up a static IP address. It seems like it is working for me except I can't seem to connect to the outside world. In the process of setting up my samba server, I have found that I have no internet connection because I can't run "apt-get update" and if I open a browser I can't reach any web-page. Does anyone have a first step or idea to get me setup correctly? Samba post to come in separate thread.

Hi Guys i searched the forums but could not find anything too similar. Any advice would be welcomed. Summarised version I am currently trying to install the OrangePiPC Debian Server image of Armbian on a custom H3 board emmc and getting a kernel error (Gave up waiting for root file system device. Common problems . Please see serial log at bottom for full information. TLDR VERSION Objective To install armbian directly onto the emmc. Board Information Board acquired from a manufactorir. It has USB_OTG, eth, Uarts, emmc and some other ports but NO SD card slot. Using OrangePiPC as it seems the most similar. How I am Installing 1…

After downloading and installing (legacy ubuntu trusty) v 4.5 and doing apt-get update && apt-get upgrade (to v4.6) I ran nand-sata-install to boot and run from nand, my board won't boot because of script is invalid and unable to parser boot.ini. I still can boot from my SD-card the following information is displayed boot0 version : 1.5.0 dram size =1024 Succeed in opening nand flash. Succeed in reading Boot1 file head. The size of Boot1 is 0x00056000. The file stored in 0X00000000 of block 2 is perfect. Check is correct. Ready to disable icache. Succeed in loading Boot1. Jump to Boot1. [ 0.177] boot1 version : 1.5.0 [ 0.177] pmu type = 3 […

I am using kernel 4.9 built from https://github.com/megous/linux and tried DTB plus/plus2E in a custom distro ,But the ethernet isn't working. ifconfig: SIOCGIFFLAGS: No such device ifconfig: SIOCSIFADDR: No such device route: SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable What could be the reason?

I have problem, I am not able to get console working to access my nanopi neo air. PSU is not issue, opi+2 runs with same power w/o issues. Sdcard is not problem either. Tested with more than one image and based on how onboard leds behaves, i believe that system boots up ok. Now the question: How to modify image on sdcard so that it connects to my WIFi (WPA2-PSK) on boot automatically making ssh to nano working? Or should I mount image, before writing to sdcard, and do the needed changes inside mounted image? What and how? Thanks!

Next cloud installed but when I enter my local address as it says on softy it give me not found error, tried http and https, idk what's the problem, also I get an error when I run sudo apt-get upgrade, image included

Hi, after login the error> RX today: Error: Unable to read database "/var/lib/vnstat/wlan0": No such file or directory Merge "eth0+wlan0" failed. When i try to connect to WIFI network via armbain-configure -> WIFI ; network selected + password provided I got error> Passwords or encryption keys are required to access the │ │ wireless network 'OpenWrt'. second / third try> Could not activate connection: │ │ │ │ │ Activation failed: Secrets were │ │ │ │ │ required, but not provided root@bananapi:~# ca…

Is it possible to use uart rts gpio on mainline? May be like discribed here https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next/+/refs/heads/akpm-base/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/serial.txt

Looking for help on how to install either freepbx or elastix on the OPiPC+ running latest Armbian desktop jessie. I was pointed an article awhile back but it did not work and I am by no means an expert! Any and all help is welcome. Thanks

I've tried the latest CLI and GUI images. I tried different microSD cards but the result is the same. Both images get to Booting using the fdt blob and never progress. Is there anything I can try to get this working?

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Hi, I am trying to install TVheadend using Debian-micro-home-server, but no success. Armbian Wheezy with legacy kernel. See printscreen. Any idea? PM

I'm trying to follow the Armbian Quick Start Guide, specifically the section "How to install to eMMC, NAND, SATA & USB?". It says to run nand-sata-install and I'll be able to choose to set up to "boot from eMMC / NAND, system on SATA / USB", which is what I want (to boot from NAND and have the system on USB). What I get on screen though is not what I expect. I see a menu that has two option 1. Boot from SD - system on SATA, USB or NVMe 5. Install/Update the bootloader on SD/eMMC Why don't I get the option to set up to boot from NAND (which I guess might be option 3, going by the documentation)? cubieboard 2, …

Hello friends, just short question - i2s do supported in mainline today for A20 (Lime2, Cubietruck, Banana etc...)? BR, Alex

I am setting up a new Odroid HC1 and have installed Armbian Buster from https://www.armbian.com/odroid-hc1/. Attempting to run iptables, I first had the problem: iptables/1.8.2 Failed to initialize nft: Protocol not supported Attempting to use legacy, I used the command: update-alternatives --set iptables /usr/sbin/iptables-legacy But then had the error: modprobe: ERROR: ../libkmod/libkmod.c:586 kmod_search_moddep() could not open moddep file '/lib/modules/4.14.180-odroidxu4/modules.dep.bin' modprobe: FATAL: Module ip_tables not found in directory /lib/modules/4.14.180-odroidxu4 iptables v1.8.2 (legacy): can't initialize iptables table `filte…

Hello, I try to run this image: Armbian_20.02.0-rc0_Bananapir2_buster_legacy_4.19.97_minimal.img on Sinovoip Banana PI R2 (from SD card) and on 1-st boot i'm stuck: Tx DQM dly bit4 = 0x0 DRAMC_DQODLY1=79A98889h DRAMC_DQODLY2=8988B99Ah DRAMC_DQODLY3=2203123h DRAMC_DQODLY4=31103014h Tx DQ dly bit4 = 0x0 Tx DQS dly = 0x8949 Tx DQS dly bit4 = 0x0 TX Byte0: DQ - 16, DQS - 17. win_sum= 32 TX Byte1: DQ - 21, DQS - 13. win_sum= 33 TX Byte2: DQ - 8, DQS - 22. win_sum= 29 TX Byte3: DQ - 8, DQS - 22. win_sum= 29 DRAMC calibration takes 651397386 CPU cycles [EMI] DRAMC calibration passed [MEM] complex R/W mem test pass 0:dram_rank_size:80000000 [Dram_Buffer]…

I have some DYI idea to make some custom ODBII Logger using SBC with Armbian. So I'm searching for suitable SBC: - quite small (50x50mm max), IoT category I think - with H3, at least 512MB RAM - eMMC at least 4GB, SD Cards support - 1 USB for pendrive - wifi in AP mode, just for ssh and copying small files via scp - second UART, freen 2xGPIO, and nice to have audio line-out also - and the most important: running Armbian in headless mode with booting from eMMC - working DVFS to keep temperature in lower levels, no heat dissipation problems (SBC will mostly work with low cpu usage, but I don't really know how low can be CPU/DRAM clock…

I have a mini computer with ubuntu installed, I forgot my system password, how can I restart it? The Mini PC does not use grub, only U-boot I ran the printenv command and I wonder where I should add the variable to be able to change the root password boot_a_script=load ${devtype} ${devnum}:${distro_bootpart} ${scriptaddr} ${prefix}${script}; source ${scriptaddr} boot_extlinux=sysboot ${devtype} ${devnum}:${distro_bootpart} any ${scriptaddr} ${prefix}extlinux/extlinux.conf boot_net_usb_start=usb start boot_prefixes=/ /boot/ boot_script_dhcp=boot.scr.uimg boot_scripts=boot.scr.uimg boot.scr boot_targets=mmc1 mmc0 usb0 pxe dhcp bootargs=storagemedia=emmc androi…

Every time the device is turned on, I can start hostapd for the first time. When I ctrl-terminate, the next time I start hostapd, I get an error message: Failed to set beacon parameters Interface initialization failed wlan0: interface state UNINITIALIZED->DISABLED wlan0: AP-DISABLED wlan0: Unable to setup interface. wlan0: interface state DISABLED->DISABLED wlan0: AP-DISABLED wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-TERMINATING hostapd_free_hapd_data: Interface wlan0 wasn't started nl80211: deinit ifname=wlan0 disabled_11b_rates=0

Hi all, I have a OrangePi R1 and want to enable SPI in U-Boot to talk to connected leds. The leds are connected to SPI0 on the pins: 19 (MOSI), 4 (5v) and 6 (GND) . I enabled the CONFIG_SUN4I_SPI flag to enable the sunxi SPI driver. I also added the following lines to `arch/arm/dts/sun8i-h2-plus-orangepi-zero.dts` to enable both SPI0 and SPI1. &spi0 { status = "okay"; flash@0 { compatible = "mxicy,mx25l12805d", "jedec,spi-nor"; }; }; &spi1 { status = "okay"; }; To control the leds I added a call to the following function inside the `board_init()` function inside: `/board/sunxi/board.c`. static int set_leds() { int bus …

Hello there, I am using Armbian 20.11.6 Buster with Linux 4.4.213-rk3399 on a Nanopi M4V2, I have connected 3 SATA HDDs and use mdadm (for a RAID 5 Array of those drives), luks lvm and ext4 (in that order, more details below) to store my backups. `armbianmonitor -u` link: http://ix.io/2NYv Recently I have received errors in borg backup, about mismatching checksums. To confirm that this error is not a borg specific error, I wrote this little zsh script to write data and generate checksums. for ((i = 0; i < 100; i++)); do dd if=/dev/urandom bs=4M count=256 | tee $i | md5sum | sed '/^a/!s/.$/'"$i"'/' > $i.sum To be more precise…

Hi all, sorry for a kiddy queston but it the first time when I'm using Armbian. I need to enter to u-boot menu/enviroment/shell and I can't I try to press any button when I'm rebooting but nothing happened and i've just have a booted system I have only UART to my system. In other devices I have some time to press any key to enter to u-boot shell but there I don't have time. U-boot exec bootcmd immediately I need to enter to u-boot shell and reconfigure some env for my work. I use Armbian 25.8.2 noble

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When I power down H3-devices I see quite different results. Normally I use 'sudo poweroff' which should behave like 'shutdown -P'. I guess the command was successfull when the last message on the serial console reads "Power down." This works with Legacy Images. Power consumption drops significantly. On the NEO and OPi Zero to somewhat 150 mW, NEO Air 250 mW. To my surprise the Orange Pi One drops even to 0 mW. Question 1: Why is that? Is it different voltage regulators, or are parts of some boards purposefully kept powered on? Testing Mainline Images things are more simple: I never even reach the "power down"-target, the sys…

Hello, I've not found an Armbian version which states compatibility with Banana Pi M2 Zero. Is there a compatible version? My first guess would be the Banana PI M2. Is that so? I've tryied to search the forum but all I've found is something about compilation. Please help.

Is it possible to make small adjustment into line 109 of /etc/update-motd.d/30-sysinfo file (I made the change myslef, but once packages are upgraded - change is overwritten)? Original line is: if [[ $intf =~ ^[ewr].* ]]; then Changed line would be (please note additional letter "b"): if [[ $intf =~ ^[ewrb].* ]]; then You may see the reason - I guess "bond" is the common prefix when binding ethernet devices: admin@PKSERVER:~$ grep -n ewr /etc/update-motd.d/30-sysinfo 109: if [[ $intf =~ ^[ewrb].* ]]; then admin@PKSERVER:~$ sudo ifconfig bond0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 08:00:00:00:02:10 i…

Dear Armbian-Enthusiasts! I would like to install Armbian with Virtualbox, so that I can run Home Assistant (HA) in a VM environment (Intel chip .vdi) - yes, no container. Would chose this image "Armbian 25.11.1 Minimal / IOT 6.1 kernel" (rolling release) Installing Virtualbox with: sudo apt install virtualbox Is this possible? Best wishes, Greg Links: https://www.home-assistant.io/installation/linux/ https://wiki.debian.org/VirtualBox https://www.armbian.com/orange-pi-5-plus/

new release date 8/21, boot goes thru first boot stuff ok, but when it starts the gui, hdmi dies and monitor shuts off, no ssh access either.Tried to dl xfce version, won't. Advise gheskett@shentel.net Earleir image worked fine until update this morning, is now stuck in uboot loop forever. Thanks

Hi to all, I have a Cubieboard1 and it seems it can't boot from nand after running nand-sata-install script. The output I get through ttl is: HELLO! BOOT0 is starting! boot0 version : 1.5.1 dram size =1024 Succeed in opening nand flash. Succeed in reading Boot1 file head. The size of Boot1 is 0x0003c000. The file stored in 0X00000000 of block 2 is perfect. Check is correct. Ready to disable icache. Succeed in loading Boot1. Jump to Boot1. [ 0.133] boot1 version : 1.4.0 [ 0.133] pmu type = 3 [ 0.134] bat vol = 0 [ 0.161] axi:ahb:apb=3:2:2 [ 0.161] set dcdc2=1400, clock=1008 successed [ 0.163] key [ 0.175] no key found [ 0.…

hi there, I'm trying to power my NanoPI over a Loudspeaker cable with 12V. At the end I have a 7805 voltage regulator with 100nF at input and output. At the Powersupply i meassure 12V and 200-300mA current. The 7805 gets extremely hot! Anyone seen similar behavior or got me a tip? Sincerely, Twosky2000

I am adding support for a new board: NanoPi R2S Plus. I have added it to the kernel and it works in testing so far. Now I am attempting to add the new board to u-boot. The u-boot configuration for NanoPi R2S does not enable the eMMC and I want to install to boot from eMMC. Using my modified kernel and u-boot for NanoPi R2S I am able to run armbian-install because in the system booted from SD card the eMMC is enabled. But after installing to eMMC, shutting down and removing the SD card, boot fails because u-boot cannot access the eMMC. Looking at the device tree for NanoPi R2S in u-boot, not surprisingly, eMMC is not enabled: NanoPi R2S does not have eMMC memor…

Not sure if this is considered an appropriate request for the Armbian forum, but I'll give it a try. New installation of Buster server 4.19.62-sunxi on OPiZero 512MB, with 32GB SanDisk A1 card. I installed CUPS (and Samba) via armbian-config, added myself to lpadmin; I can access the web interface. "Add printer" sees my Brother HL-2270DW on wifi, but no matter how I add the printer, I get one of a variety of errors when attempting to print a test page. CUPS finds and installs the printer at dnssd://Brother%20HL-2270DW%20series._ipp._tcp.local/ but when I print a test page, CUPS says it can't find the printer. So I change the URI to the printer's IP address on m…

I have a pair of Orange Pi 3's acting as redundant PiHoles on my home network. After a bit of tinkering and configuring, I have them set up the way I want, and would like to keep them that way. Of course, a good backup plan is essential to this. Looking online, I found Image-Utils for Raspberry Pi, but that is limited in support for only the Raspbian OS. Is there a good system out there to make a cloneable image of an SD card in an Orange Pi, either from the Pi itself to a remote source (NFS mount, etc.), or from a remote source pulling from the Pi? I'd like to schedule this as a CRON job, so that in the event of a hardware failure, I can just re…

I've tried to compile libgpiod (my assumption is this is a user space lib) and it depends on gpio.h which is used by the kernel. According to https://github.com/brgl/libgpiod/issues/22 gpio.h should be installed with linux-libc-dev which is already installed and gpio.h is missing. I installed the kernel headers and tried (it ends up with typedef conflicts): ./autogen.sh --enable-tools=yes --prefix=/usr/local CFLAGS="-I/usr/src/linux-headers-4.14.14-sunxi/arch/arm/include -I/usr/src/linux-headers-4.14.14-sunxi/include" configure: error: linux/gpio.h header not found (needed to build the library) I've attached the config.log. Maybe I'm to…

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…

Let me start by saying thank you all for the great work, it is appreciated! So a bit of info first. board: firefly rk3399-pc pro ( yeah I know it’s old, but so am I!) os: armbian Debian trixie kernel: 6.18.35 Bear with me, last time I touched Linux, lilo and xfree86 were things… I installed the community supported rk3399-firefly as I didn’t find a better match for the pro. Most of the hardware worked with the major exception of the audio. No problem, the rk3399-roc-plus.dts had the correct audio for the board all I needed to do was switch the audio portion into the rk3399-firefly.dts (though other aspects including just booti…

Hello, I have Banana Pi R2 with armbian bionic. Have two wlan cards both USB, both works. But earlier when I used openwrt on x86 my both wlan and lan were bridged and had one IP - which was router IP. Here with armbian wlan hotspot get other IP than armbian itself. Is there any way to change it to bridge? Or best practices is to leave it as is? regards, Maciek

I'm trying to set up a build system, but I ran into a problem that I can't seem to find a solution for. I've never done this, so I'm a total noob at this. So steps I took. Set up a virtualbox with Ubuntu Bionic 18.04. Then followed this guide. https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Using-Vagrant/ Until step : vagrant up. I get an error: VT-x is not available. Spoiler nicod@nicod-VirtualBox:~/build$ vagrant up Bringing machine 'default' up with 'virtualbox' provider... ==> default: Checking if box 'ubuntu/bionic64' version '20190308.0.0' is up to date... ==> default: Clearing any previously set forwarded ports... …

Hi everyone, I know this question has been answered earlier, but maybe something has changed with the recent versions of U-boot and kernel. So, is there any progress with support of NAND flash with A20 CPU in mainline kernel and U-boot? If NAND is not supported in U-boot, is it possible to load mainline kernel from legacy u-boot?

Hello all! First of all, apologies for being such a noob but I am very eager to get started and there may be some ambiguous language here as a result. I am getting started in Armbian Linux Buster on the Pine A64+ and for my first project I'd like to program a 7 segment display (four digits) to display descending numbers from 1000. As you may know, 7-segment displays with more than one digit require the display to operate at a certain frequency in order to display multiple digits as a result of the common anode/cathode configuration. I have already played around with a simple LED and have gotten it to light up in armbian linux buster on the A64 (by defining the…

I'm trying to get Armbian running on a Rock Pi S, but my custom builds aren't booting (see output below). I can successfully boot with the Buster image from here, but I need a custom custom build that will eventually include a few added scripts and be flashed to the NAND flash on the board, instead of using an SD card. When I run a custom-built image, I never see the Armbian splash on in the serial console, instead I get the following output: DDR Version V1.26 REGFB: 0x00000032, 0x00000032 In 589MHz DDR3 Col=10 Bank=8 Row=15 Size=512MB msch:1 Returning to boot ROM... INFO: Preloader serial: 0 NOTICE: BL31: v1.3(release):3a579d3 NOTICE: BL31: Built : …

Hello Armbian community I just acquired a Raxda Rock 3A with a Raxda Wireless module A8 (RTL8852BE) card. The Ubuntu distribution from Raxda seems to work pretty well, but it's not very recent, which is why I wanted to try Armbian! The current version (Armbian 23.02 Jammy Kernel 6.1.y, Size: 579Mb, Release date: Feb 27, 2023) seems to work, but I have two questions: 1) No wifi, the card is not detected (probably a driver issue, it works with the official OS), if there are members who have solved this? 2) I haven't seen much information on setting up a boot from an nvme storage, have you tried this? Have a g…

Using legacy Ubuntu desktop image (currently with OPi One)... The application will be in a public place and will be shutdown/power up by a personnel. Whenever my application starts, I have full control of the display area. On the other hand: * At the very startup boot process with armbian logo is shown * Desktop does uploaded and shown shortly (my application starts with automatic user login) * In case of a shutdown (button press, IrDa, remote control etc) the desktop is shown again, screen gets blank and up again, shows login and shuts down (do your boards do that?)... How can I prevent these? What I tried: * Looked if I could …

Hi all! I make a board base on H3 CPU, I got a 8G EMMC under mmc2, and a ap6212a chip under mmc1. It boots successfully with the "armbian orange-pi-pc-plus", the emmc works fine while the wifi does not work, so, i changed the dts's mmc1 section based on the file 'sun8i-h3-orangepi-pc-plus.dts' in 'arch/arm/boot/dts/' directory, the mmc1 is changed to as follows: &mmc1 { vmmc-supply = <&reg_vcc3v3>; vqmmc-supply = <&reg_vcc3v3>; mmc-pwrseq = <&wifi_pwrseq>; bus-width = <4>; non-removable; status = "okay"; /* * Explicitly define the sdio device, so that we can add an ethernet * alias for it (w…

I recently bought a NanoPi M4V2 with the SATA HAT extension. I'm planning on using it to build a personal NAS. However, I have some concerns about the SATA HAT. The chip on it turns out to get very warm when idle despite the installed heat sink. I haven't been able to measure the exact temperature, but I'm unable to put my finger on the heat sink for more than a few seconds. I'm running the following specs: NanoPi M4 V2 Armbian buster with Linux 5.4.49-rockchip64 SATA HAT for NanoPi M4 1x 2.5" Seagate Barracuda HDD (1TB) 12V/2A Charger with Locking (see image) Under this post someone suggested to replace the or…

After my last update on my radxa5-ITX, apart from the name changes of the NIC (related?), I remarked that I could not cryptroot-unlock the root partition because of dm_mod apparently missing from initramfs. To give some context, this is how I set things up some while ago and things went pretty smooth until recently. Too bad armbian does not keep the previous kernel (though I get the reason why). Inspecting the boot partition, cat config-6.1.115-vendor-rk35xx | grep DM_CRYPT CONFIG_DM_CRYPT=m the kernel seems to have been compiled with the proper option and lsinitramfs initrd.img-6.1.115-vendor-rk35xx | grep 'usr.*cryptsetup' usr/lib/aarch64-l…

Hello! I follow instruction "Add names of overlays you want to activate to overlays= line in /boot/armbianEnv.txt" I try to find /boot/armbianEnv.txt but nothing. I see Build tools overview from https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/fcb8b6f195bbb76c83c612c425fdf08cfd48c68b/README.md And nothing about /boot/armbianEnv.txt May be documentation talking about build/config/bootenvrockchip.txt and build/config/zynq.txt and others txt files in build/config/ ? It looks like /boot/armbianEnv.txt is file on microSD after I burn armbian image on it. But reading docs I don't understand nothing about build/config/bootenv/rockchip.txt

Hey fellas I have FOUR different armbian devices (one official armbian, three running ophub's armbian) which all seem to struggle with network throughput at high latency connections. It is not a cpu issue and this doesn't occur on x86 debian. Here's the odd thing. If I connect an ethernet usb dongle, like rtl8152b I get the full throughput even at high latency. What??? So it's a nic issue? I thought maybe the onboard ethernet isn't well supported by the kernel so I got a nanopi neo4 with onboard realtek gigabit running official armbian 6.12.3x ... AND it's slow too. Any onboard nic with armbian is slow in my tests. …

Hello everyone. I'm trying to install the katoolin tool on orange pi lite 2 but I have a small problem. I followed these instructions but at the third step something is wrong. install kali linux tools to any linux system - sudo su - git clone https://github.com/LionSec/katoolin.git && cp katoolin/katoolin.py /usr/bin/katoolin - chmod +x /usr/bin/katoolin - sudo katoolin root@orangepilite2:~# git clone https://github.com/LionSec/katoolin.git && cp katoolin/katoolin.py /usr/bin/katoolin Cloning into 'katoolin'... remote: Enumerating objects: 20, done. remote: Counting objects: 100% (20/20), done. …

A problem I'm having with my fresh install of Armbian Bionic on my Libre Renegade board is that I cannot use the user login due to read-only file system warnings. Root login does allow more freedom, but comes with its own drawbacks. Prior to writing Armbian to the chip from Windows, I formatted the chip exFAT. I've reinstalled Armbian mutiple times on multiple chips, but even the recommended A1 SD doesn't work. I'm not sure where the problem lies. Is this strictly a hardware issue? Is there any non-extensive ways to workaround or fix the problem in the terminal? I'm not too familiar with Linux terminology, but can figure out common terms. I can supply more in…

Hello, Thru various and sundry means, I have acquired this unusual specimen; a ZeroDesktop MiiPC M1140. This was originally intended to be a "family desktop PC" that runs on Android Jelly Bean and was released in 2013. It looks like a TV box had a child with a NUC. The machine runs a Marvell Armada 1500 Plus processor with 1GB of RAM and 4GB of storage. The company, Zerodesktop, ran a Kickstarter campaign to fund producing these - my model is one of the Kickstarter Editions. I know that the Marvell Armada 1500 was used in the Google Chromecast 2, along with a bunch of set top boxes. ZeroDesktop no longer exists as a company, having only produced t…

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…

Hello- I'm looking to marry free and open (as possible) software and hardware into one inexpensive system. I'm in over my head so apologies in advance if I'm asking silly stuff. I did check the basics on here and have been lurking. At any rate I've been messing around with the Lime 2 and haven't had much luck getting Parabola to boot into LXDE... or any GUI at all actually. I thought I'd try Armbian as the Debian Kernel has been blob-less for a while now. I really, really like it so far. I am using Mainline, just want to make sure I'm running all free software if possible. I have checked for non-free stuff via: dpkg-query -W -f='$…

Hello, Please help with this issue: No Сapture selection in alsamixer or amixer. root@cubieboard2:~# arecord -l **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices **** card 1: sun4icodec [sun4i-codec], device 0: CDC PCM Codec-0 [CDC PCM Codec-0] Subdevices:1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 root@cubieboard2:~# amixer -c 1 sget 'Line Boost' Capabilities: volume volume-joined Playback channels: Mono Capture channels: Mono Limits: 0 - 7 Mono: 7 [100%] [9.00dB] root@cubieboard2:~# amixer -c 1 sset 'Line Boost' cap amixer: Invalid command! root@cubieboard2:~# …

Hello all, I am unsuccessful in setting up FDE (Full-Disk-Encryption) on an ODROID HC-2. This device has no display output and I have no clue if and how it's possible to debug the boot issue. The boot is done through the micro-SD card and I can mount the micro-SD card successfully on any other host for insight. Is there any known trick how to see what fails during the boot process? How can I do this?

@TonyMac32 I have bought a Firefly-RK3399 from firefly ( http://shop.t-firefly.com/goods.php?id=45 ). I did not realize it at the time of purchase, but the Mosfets are unable to provide sufficient power for the board plus the USB ports, EDP connector, MIPI-CSI interface, M.2 slot, etc. I really love the IO of the board and want to try to find a way to get it to work (plus I don't have the money to go trying out more boards ). Would your idea help such a board? Thanks!

I work a lot with Raspberry including Zero Just bought several Orange Pi One The issue of power supply is annoying Same power adapter which will drive Raspberry smoothly fails to do the same for Orange Adding KB or Mouse also effects the stability, even adding one more computer to same power block had an effect on the orange As I need my machines in various locations I am concerned I will have issues

Hi everyone. FIrst of all, i need to thank this community, you need to be congratulated for the effort you all make to this project. When i restart my router, the wlan0 of my opi zero 2 stops, no network with "nmcli dev wifi" appears. I've already tried restarting the service with "sudo systemctl restart NetworkManager", disable IPv6 and also installing latest armbian-firmware-full.deb, but it still the same. I'm only able to resolve it with a reboot. Previously I used Debian and this did not happen. I'm using this linux version (4.9.318-legacy-sun50iw9) because of compatibility with the SPI LCD TFT display that I'm using. From what I researched here on the …

Hey guys, I'm trying to find a way to read the values of the LRADC0 and LRADC1 of the A20. Those ADC are usually used for android-style buttons (labeled "VOL+", "VOL-", "MENU", "SEARCH", "HOME", "ESC" and "ENTER") which are connected to a low-resolution ADC via a resistor network. But I want to use the ADC for another purpose and I just need to read values between 0 and 63. Now it seems there is already a driver which let you setup the android-style buttons in the DTS (as can be seen in this patch) But I can't find the code of this driver, which I could use as a template. Any idea how to find the driver ? Or…

Hello, I have an old PCduino 3 that I would like to return to a more dignified life. But I see that it is currently considered as EOS so it will not have an update to Bionic or Stretch. But is it possible to do it unofficially with Armbian build?, if not, can I at least update it from Xenial to Bionic without breaking everything?

Hello, I have a 7 in lcd touchscreen that I would like to use with my 'le potato' board. I have begun using Armbian Le Potato Debian Stretch. I would like to get this working and would explore many options but when it breaks down i have: utilized putty to ssh into my 'le potato' with ethernet on my main router and typed in fbset to reveal... putty ssh screenshot I was curious about other possible options in Armbian like utilizing a config file or converting a .bin file to fex and changing the values. However, I have had no luck in utilizing an hdmi touchscreen besides maintaining usb power and flickering. Would anyone have a method of touchs…

Hi, how can I remove all files of desktop (GUI) after installing with armbian-config. I am running armbian 4.19.62 sunxi #5.92 on BananaPi M1 I can disable the Desktop but I require the space for the server. Regards, Rein

I have a NanoPi R2S Plus. If I boot the FriendlyElec Debian image both network ports work: LAN and WAN. If I boot the Armbian NanoPi R2S image, it boots OK and the LAN port works but the WAN port does not work. I believe the WAN port does not work because the NanoPi R2S has an RTL8211E chip but the NanoPi R2S Plus has an RTL8211F chip. I found some notes about problems with network on other boards that had the same change of chip (e.g. radxa RockpiE) and the device tree changes required to accommodate the new chip. So I tried to patch armbian/build to make the same changes for the NanoPi R2S Plus. I am not familiar with armbian/build or…

This is a FYI: My armbian did not automount my USB-disk. Possbile reason "By default, disk drives do not auto-mount in Ubuntu Server Edition.". Anyway: I solved it with usbmount: First install usbmount. Then, in /etc/usbmount/usbmount.conf change the line #MOUNTOPTIONS="sync,noexec,nodev,noatime,nodiratime" to MOUNTOPTIONS="sync,noexec,nodev,noatime,nodiratime,user,umask=0000" to make it writeable for all users. HTH

We will be configuring in a mode that allows both NFSv3 and NFSv4 clients to connect to access to the same share. Q. What are the benefits of an NFS share over a SAMBA share? A. This would take an article in itself! But as a brief reasoning, In a closed network (where you know every device), NFS is a fine choice. With a good network, throughput it disgustingly fast and at the same time less CPU intensive on the server. There are a lot of applications that support NFS "Out of the box" KODI being a common example. It's very simple to set up and you can toggle readonly on shares you don't need to be writeable. It only gets complicated if you want to start l…

I been running my own images with great success thanks to rock solid build environment but one thing that catches me by surprise every now and then is that updating the system can also overwrite my custom kernel, which is is far from ideal. Up until now I been issuing an apt hold command for the packages but I was thinking maybe there is a better way. Because even with the hold in place if I don't pay close attention and do an apt dist-upgrade for example they will still be replaced despite the hold. Is there a better way to prevent my kernels from being updated by the stock kernel? Cheers!

I'm kinda new here, and lets first say thank you for Armbian, it has kinda saved me from having to do a lot more work than I have had to, to get my Orange Pi 5 Plus to a state where it's really a pretty cool little test/experimental system... BUT, I wondered... since many of these devices have accessible PCIe in one form or another, and the Mali GPU is a bit of a blocker... Perhaps it would be good to build the kernel with the modules for open source GPUs for Mesa... AMDGPU, XE, and i915.. Currently I'm in this position... I know I could clone the project from GIT, and build my own kernel, but this seems like an obvious next step and I wonder how many other people would …

Armbian is community driven open source project. To keep it relevant and up to date it needs maintenance round the clock. This work is done by a small amateur contributor force which was under-powered since early days and it still is. For most basic tasks! Any help is more then welcome. https://forum.armbian.com/staffapplications/ (what do we need) https://docs.armbian.com/Quick_facts/ (overview) https://www.armbian.com/get-involved/ (how-to contribute) https://github.com/armbian (sources for build engine, documentation, scripts) <---- <---- <---- Also refactoring, better wording, code cleanup. General tips: …

Hi, I have two Opi in the same LAN (Ethernet wired) and trying comunicating each other (client-server TCP/UDP) The issue is: From a Laptop in the same LAN, both OPI are detected, and I can ping and SSH both of them. DHCP works fine, they have intertet... all seems to be ok... But, none of the OrangePI are reachable (not even ping) from other OrangePI in the same LAN!!! Thanks in advance in case anyone could support. It is getting me crazy. More info: Orange Pi Zero config: -Allwinner H2+ quad core 1,2GHz 32bits -SO=Armbian_5.83_Orangepizero_Debian_stretch_next_4.19.38 - ethernet configurated gateway: 192.…

After installation, /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades is empty. What is the proper origins to automatically install at least security patches?

https://github.com/retr0rangepi/RetroPie-Setup ^^After manually running this setup program, gl4es and glshim does not seem to work anymore... Before this installment everything worked for me and I used both glshim and gl4es to play games like tuxracer. Both gl4es and glshim are build from source and already installed. See error messages below. gl4es: LIBGL:loaded: libEGL.so LIBGL: Using GLES 2.0 backend MESA-LOADER: failed to retrieve device information libEGL warning: DRI2: failed to open mali_drm (search paths /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/dri:${ORIGIN}/dri:/usr/lib/dri) LIBGL: Hardware Limited NPOT detected and used LIBGL: Extension GL_E…

Clean Armbian Bionic 5.3 install. Login with root/1234. It asks for a new password. I type it, and the connection is closed. I tried many passwords, all the same.

Hi All I was wondering how does Armbian load the /sys/class/thermal_zone folder and the cpufreq in the sysfs on the orange pi zero . Going through the device tree I dont see an entry for thermal_zone as stated in the kernel document.

Hi, I just switched from an ancient ubuntu-rockchip install to armbian ubuntu 26.04 with the mainline kernel. I did a bit of an unorthodox installation, I wanted to install on an nvme drive, and instead of using a microSD and then copying the system with armbian-install, since I didn't have a working microsd available I did a "manual" installation, I flashed rkspi_loader.img into the SPI taken from the armbian image and then flashed the armbian img directly to the nvme drive with an usb adapter from my PC. All is good and working fine, but I'm wondering if I'm missing any settings that gets applied during the armbian-install process (are there any?) that …

I did a clean install of Armbian_5.20_Odroidc2_Debian_jessie_3.14.79.img i found that after installing updates: udev and libudev1 OdroidC2 with 128GB eMMC; stops working with a blue solid light after reboot twice and no response from the device. If i do the same install on a micro-sd card 1 UHS no problem :S I have my mail, irc, web and openvpn server running on this device. Please HELP!! apt-get install udev libudev1 Preconfiguring packages ... (Reading database ... 44010 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../libudev1_215-17+deb8u5_arm64.deb ... Unpacking libudev1:arm64 (215-17+deb8u5) over (215-17+deb8u4) ... Setting up l…

Hello... after last update, I'm got this issue .. MAC address for wifi changed after reboot ... (and dhcp reservation does not work .. of course) It happen on all 5.15.x 5.16.x kernels .. Armbian 22.02.1 with Linux 5.16.11-sunxi - has problem Armbian 22.02.1 with Linux 5.15.25-sunxi - has problem downgrade to 5.10 works Armbian 22.02.1 with Linux 5.10.60-sunxi - Is OK .. Have anybody same problem ..?? is any way, how can I solve this issue ..? thanks ... for answer(s)...

Hi, I downloadded the latest debian_stretch_next for OPZ+2 H5. Yes, I know it's experimental and not production-grade, I just want to report the issue. The problem is that apt-get (dpkg-deb) fails to decompress deb archives during the upgrade procedure. Tried it on a clean install multiple times on different microSDs. Are the packages really corrupted or is there something wrong with the image? Error log in the attachments P.S.: ubuntu_xenial_next randomly panics during apt update. h5.txt

Hi there. More than a year ago i started a project on this CPU and mainly succeeded with Nanopc-T4 board, old Armbian (5.95/4.4.179) and a custom DTB. The hardware project included the SBC and a Chinese TFT dashboard-style display panel (thus - MIPI/DSI, as I could not find the same for LVDS). Mainly using the poke-and-peek method I collected the way to mod the DTS so the DSI port is active, and the display worked like a charm. Mostly I pasted the DSI part from OrangePi DTS. I must admit that that turned out to be pure luck. Because once I moved (after big pause) to the SOM and self-designed carrier board (identical in USB, SSD, MMC, video section to Friend…

Hello Community! File /boot/orangepi/OrangePiH5orangepi.dts is not self-explanatory.. :-( Is there any documentation on how to define GPIO.21 for example for DIGITAL OUTPUT with initial "Logical ONE" at a BOOT time? It will control Triac with 220 Volts on it. IT MUST BE EXACTLY AT HIGH LEVEL AT A BOOT TIME. How to do this? It should be in OUT mode. Any help appreciated!... Regards, Ellad

My goal is to use Radxa Rock3a with a large 3.5inch HDD as a first step. Works fine if I use a M.2 E-key adapter which connects on the PCIe2.0 x1 lane and provides SATA via a JMB 5-port chip (only 2 connectors, support is in U-boot default Armbian build 2024.10). Worked also if I use an overlay included in early 6.1.84-vendor-rk35xx builds that maps RK3568 SATA onto the PCIe2.0 M.2 connector traces/signals, but now the whole 6.1.84-vendor-rk35xx ends in panic. I have not looked at exact changes (it is from the beta channel), but it was working with trunk.x and now installed variant is from trunk.y. I might not be able to find exact numbers for x and …

Hi, I'm trying to install new bananian 15.08 ( jassie ), in the past I installed 15.04 ( wheezy ) and setup sata encrypted disk successfully using follow instructions ( http://development-annotations.blogspot.it/2015/05/banana-pi-encrypted-sata-disk-bootstrap.html ). In the new 15.08 the /boot layout changed and I need some help: I tried to setup the root disk in the boot.cmd and compiled the boot.scr # mainline kernel >= 4.x #-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- setenv bootargs console=ttyS0,115200 console=tty0 console=tty1 cryptdevice=/dev/sda1:cryptroot root=/dev/m…