Hi,

 

I don't know if this has anything to do with it, but I had a functional Armbian distro on the Rock5B working from the SDCard, and after installing it on the NVMe (which does not boot), I restarted the board from the SDCard (after having removed the NVMe), and I lost my network connections.
How could I get the network back on?
And the UART regularly asks me: 
Give root password for maintenance
(or press Control-D to continue):
 

Give root password for maintenance
(or press Control-D to continue):

Something must be broken...

 

root@rock-5b:~# uname -a
Linux rock-5b 5.10.110-rockchip-rk3588 #23.02.2 SMP Fri Feb 17 23:59:20 UTC 2023 aarch64 GNU/Linux

root@rock-5b:~# ip a
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet6 ::1/128 scope host
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: enP4p65s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:e0:4c:68:03:e4 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
3: wlx4401bb082c96: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 44:01:bb:08:2c:96 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
root@rock-5b:~# ifup enP4p65s0
ifup: unknown interface enP4p65s0
root@rock-5b:~# cat /etc/network/interfaces
source /etc/network/interfaces.d/*
# Network is managed by Network manager
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
root@rock-5b:~# ls /sys/class/net
enP4p65s0  lo  wlx4401bb082c96
root@rock-5b:~#

 

`armbian-config` does not give me a way to launch a wireless connection (no menu), and the network configuration file in `armbian-config` does not reflect what is in `/etc/network`.

Edited March 30, 20233 yr by gounthar

Stupid me had a problem in `/etc/fstab`.
Once I got rid of the problem, I got the network (and the rest) back as usual.
Well... 🤷‍♂️