I am using Wifi/BT USB dongle to connect network for Orange Pi 5. But it does not work with Armbian. It works smoothly with Orange Pi's Ubuntu and Debian distros. I just need to insert the dongle into USB 3 to work.

Is there anything I can do to use the dongle with Armbian?

 

My dongle is "USB WiFi Bluetooth Adapter Dual Band 2.4/5.8Ghz Wireless RTL8821CU Don-ig";

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/404244701011

 

 

 

 

Providing logs with 

armbianmonitor -u

 helps with troubleshooting and significantly raises chances that issue gets addressed.

 

 

Also checkhttps://www.armbian.com/compatible/

armbianmonitor resport is in the following link;

 

https://paste.armbian.com/wewoxupaso

Maybe it's being recognized as a different type of device?

 

Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0bda:1a2b Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8188GU 802.11n WLAN Adapter (Driver CDROM Mode)

 

Try searching for "wifi usb recognized as mass storage", maybe you'll need something like this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Mobile_broadband_modem

Also, you may need to install armbian-firmware-full as the default firmware package in the images is a trimmed down set of firmwares to minimize size.  So the firmware for your device may not be installed by default.

I installed armbian-firmware-full. But the same problem. I think the dongle is not supported yet. It's one of three dongles that Orange Pi support official. I hope this dongle support can be added in future.