Got quite excited seen that the wifi driver is finally available and was going to test the browser and graphic acceleration in the current kernel but I flashed 3 times the Desktop image with Gnome/Current 6.18.33 and it did not boot. Is there possibly an issue with u-boot?

 

And same with a freshly compiled image with 6.18 btw - it doesn't boot. Going to test with edge kernel...

opi5 does not have wifi?

10 hours ago, Werner said:

opi5 does not have wifi?

Only vendor has had the ap6275p driver but it looks like it was integrated to mainline and edge https://github.com/armbian/build/pull/10289

 

Sadly I cannot get any of the recent images to boot. The board doesn't have single peep of green light with a recent image flashed.

38 minutes ago, OttawaHacker said:

The board doesn't have single peep of green light with a recent image flashed.

Also nothing on UART serial console?

35 minutes ago, eselarm said:

Also nothing on UART serial console?

I never used the UART serial console - is there a guide to set that one up? Also I tried multiple cards - and no difference. Usually any good image would at least make one flash of green light but no luck with any of these (ones published on site and freshly built). 

 

Is there a way I can check the u-boot version on my working card?

 

29 minutes ago, OttawaHacker said:

Is there a way I can check the u-boot version on my working card?

yes use strings command on the first 16MiB of SD-card or image and grep for text U-Boot

and do the same thing for the SPI flash of the OPi5 if it has one, I don't remenber all 100's of boards.

If old u-boot in SPI and new on SD-card then indeed it won't work. then wipe the SPI so the one from SD-card is used.

30 minutes ago, eselarm said:

If old u-boot in SPI and new on SD-card

Thank you!! I did a `nand-sata-install` from my working copy and now the images are finally booting up. Wifi is WORKING with mainline kernel 🥳