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According to your info report your Pendoo box is an amlogic based machine. Take a look to at the aml-S9xx-box image on the Armbian site. There are instructions for setting up amlogic tv boxes of various types. I have an old x96mini that has an S905W chip in it and that uses the p281 set up. See if that gets you anywhere. Assuming the Pendoo box really is an amlogic based machine and the Armbian image doesn't work, you might try the GitHub site of a developer named devmfc. His images are not Armbian but they boot on a number of boxes not supported by members of the Armbian community. Hope that last bit doesn't get either of us in trouble. Maybe some of the foregoing will help.

In case anyone is interested, I tried the x96q image from Armbian's main site today, Sept. 6, 2026. It booted with Ethernet working, Wi-Fi still shows errors to dmesg constantly and the Bluetooth driver seems not to be working, but it survived a firmware update in armbian-upgrade. Many thanks to the maintainer.

I have an X96Q v1.3 lpddr3 box and I have built an image from the current build tree described on the Armbian website that works on my machine with Ethernet functioning normally. For this to work for me I installed docker from the armbian-config utility on a LibreComputer Renegade with 4GB of RAM running Armbian Trixie. I eventually prepared a script containing the following: ./compile.sh BOARD=x96q BUILD_DESKTOP=no BUILD_MINIMAL=yes RELEASE=resolute KERNEL_CONFIGURE=no KERNEL_BTF=no. and ran it (barring spelling mistakes in the previous) as an ordinary user. For me it ran successfully and I was able to boot from the image produced with working Ethernet. It seems to me that it is critical that the image be built on a machine running Armbian and with docker installed. My Renegade has only 4GB of RAM making The KERNEL_BTF=no necessary. Using the Armbian Imager to download and burn the hosted image produced a bootable image but no Ethernet. Trying to build from source but not having docker installed produced a bootable image without Ethernet. The wireless drivers leave much to be desired. I tried upgrading the kernel to 7.x and the result was loss of Ethernet and an attempt to revert to 6.18.48 or whatever failed as well. My guess is that it is best to freeze the firmware update. I'll try to post my actual build script and a link to one of my successful build if I can. I hope someone can replicate this process. Many thanks to sicXnull and NickA, your work is greatly appreciated. Gmail shared link.url You are welcome to inspect and try the files in the link above at your own risk. The image file works on my x96q but may not on yours. I'd suggest building your own image. Please let me know your results for good or ill.

Many thanks for your work. I now have a functioning Linux box instead of electo-trash through no effort of my own. 👍

https://github.com/radxa-pkg/aic8800/releases/tag/4.0+git20250410.b99ca8b6-2 The above should get you to a useable page. Download the USB version of the .deb package. I stored mine in the /root but had to copy it to the /tmp directory and install it from there. I installed the .deb package after the apt upgrade process, then rebooted. There may be a more recent version of the package. If I find it, I'll post a link Hope this helps, let me know if you run into trouble.