For anyone else trying to get Armbian on the NanoPi R4S working, I built my own Armbian image from trunk ( about a month ago, so I ended up with: Armbian_21.05.0-trunk_Nanopi-r4s_focal_current_5.10.24.img) and it seems to work correctly. It does not have the issues that I experienced using the pre-b...

@igorp Your comments are confusing me. You suggested armbian would be a better OS for better community support. I heard you and pointed out the issue I ran into with armbian. You pointed out that armbian has "And it has active community support". Awesome. I'm not convinced my issue is a bu...

@igorp: I'm not sure I understand the point you are trying to make with this reply. You recommended armbian because, as you said "You can simply use Armbian which is better than Ubuntu in just about any case. And it has active community support, the most important part, which Ubuntu will never ...

I tried Armbian first, but ran into inconsistencies in the network port bring-up. That issue does not seem affect friendlycore-lite-focal. I've posted on the Armbian forum:
https://forum.armbian.com/topic/17286-n ... ian-21021/

Is there a way to install standard arm64 Ubuntu 20.04 on the R4S? Do I need the serial console to do this?
Alternatively, can the kernel in friendlycore-lite-focal be upgraded from 4.19 to 5.10.x?
Any tips/pointers would be greatly appreciated.