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Have kind of question: is it any plan to design T4 version but with 8GB of RAM like RI Pi 4 has now? With 8GB RAM and with NVMe like it is now T4 would be way better base board for small workstation/terminal. Dynamic Memory Interface (DDR3/DDR3L/LPDDR3/LPDDR4): Compatible with JEDEC standard DDR3-1...
I don't understand why you continue to spout the same meaningless diatribe no matter what the question or subject of the post is. Meaningless? Read once again. Perhaps you don't know that armbian does not, in reality, behave any differently than any other distro. To me it looks like you have no ide...
Eag wrote:
At least manjaro provides some basic tools out of the box. Like **inxi**.

This is enabled this very cheap way on Debian based distro:

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apt install inxi


... but is mainly useless in this ARM world which is why we don't provide it by default.
What knowledge is available that will help to improve the nanopc-t4's functionality under Linux. It is clearly possible, just not outside of the friendlyarm ecosystem. Armbian is a proof that it is possible. It is a demonstration that we can do some improvements, but until 95% of the costs that are...
Friendly is using a very old kernel, 4.?? which they have modified with lcd device drivers and a device tree 'dts'. This is the kernel where this hardware was brought up and shipped with the SoC. Its a development kernel per se and it has best support for hardware until all features are mainlined. ...
Hello, Will you be contributing a device tree to the Linux kernel so that linux can support these boards properly? Also are there plans to make the device drivers available to the 5.x kernel via dkms? I find that your ancient pre-packaged linux kernel and Ubuntu are insufficient for my use of this ...
Added Ubuntu Focal variant and a few other fixes.
calgalli wrote:
I have to compile a driver for a device. It requires Kernel header file. Where can I find the installation package for Kernel header file. Thank you


Works with Armbian https://www.armbian.com/download/?tx_maker=friendlyelec
Hi everybody, I'm looking for a possibility to install Devuan on Nano Pi R1. Devuan is actually a Debian fork without systemd (Well, guys, please don't waste time trying to convince me that systemd is useful, for me it is not an option at all, I'd better try another board). Devuan port for armhf su...
Sorry Igor I didn't understand what you mean. FriendlyArm images are proof of concept. Its a demonstration that it can run Linux. Armbian is proper Linux distribution with own know-how and end user support. My question is if you are satisfied with any crap you download or you are going to do some i...
Another guy over at the DietPi forum advised that it won't work with Armbian If it doesn't work with Armbian, you can simply forget about ... don't believe every crap that you read on the internet, especially if that comes from some dietised / new to Linux user. I'll try this for sure. I'm wonderin...
Another guy over at the DietPi forum advised that it won't work with Armbian If it doesn't work with Armbian, you can simply forget about ... don't believe every crap that you read on the internet, especially if that comes from some dietised / new to Linux user. https://docs.armbian.com/#what-is-ar...
Hello everybody, I'm looking to install Raspotify on the basic Xenial image of my NeoPlus2. https://github.com/dtcooper/raspotify However, the automatic installer fails as it is made solely for the Raspberry Pi . I tried the manual installation. At first there were some missing dependencies which I...
armbian is good alternative OS option and armbian support is better through their forums Is your only alternative which needs your help, or it will (put to) die and you will lost that too. but still fairly poor. between official armbian support and volunteers, most questions get addressed but . Con...
kanu wrote:
guys I have been able to make green led flash using different SD card. But do I do ssh. how to find the ip address or hostname of nanopi M4V2


Now proceed with manual: https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Getting-Started/ and act upon it.
Try. If you have previously recorded to this SD card systems from Frendlyelec or other systems (or the card came with a pre-installed system), you will have to completely erase the SD card before recording Armbian. Systems from Frendlyelec use GPT, which blocks the normal launch of other systems fr...
kanu wrote:
Are you saying to try different sd card, different power supply?


Yes. Just different, to rule out SD card and PSU defects ... At least SD cards are troublesome. Make sure to use images from here: https://www.armbian.com/nanopi-m4-v2/

Does LED lights flashes after a while when you add power?
- different SD card
- different power supply
- no eMMC attached
- correct image (for M4 V2 ,not for M4)
moose09876 wrote:
These are R2S models.


Mine is in good condition. But its not well designed since it can bent.

edit: its hot, true. I will try how it goes with lowering top speed.
There are also armbian server or minimal images with ubuntu and someone has tested snaps successfully on a NanoPi Neo Air: https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/snaps-on-armbian/1799 Maybe thats also a way for you/your company? I dont know if it actually does work, because of https://forum.armbian.com/topic...
I am new to sbc and linux I noticed the pins for the M.2 extender board are pcie v2 x2 when i bought the M.2 exstenderboard i noticed 500mb/s.... I asume both of the pcie have atleast 1 lane each For pcie 2 data transfer for ea lane is 500 mb/s So it would be logical that with 2 lanes a ssd would b...
Why do you want to downgrade? It's not that I want to downgrade, I just want to install FriendlyWRT or OpenWRT and use eMMC memory. Best would be to use OpenWrt within Docker container on top of Armbian or some Debian based router/firewall solution. Its also complicated but worth the trouble. Why d...
Hi guys, Just got myself a new NanoPi R1 (combo kit, H3 chip, 8GB eMMC and metal case) and I need some help getting started. I tried following the guide at http://wiki.friendlyarm.com/wiki/index.php/NanoPi_R1, but I'm running into issues. Downloaded nanopi-r1_eflasher_friendlywrt_4.14_armhf_2019123...
This is, I believe, the second time I ask a question here and get a response from you advertising Armbian, Igor. I did toy with it the last time, but I don't see how it can help me here - I would still need to write and debug a custom overlay. Not sure how adding an OS switch to my work will help. ...
I'm trying to enable and use SPI1 on a Nanopi neo core 2, using the Friendlyarm kernel. I understand that SPI1 is multiplexed with UART3, and is disabled by default. But simply enabling SPI1 in the device tree while disabling UART3 didn't do the trick (there was no attempt to bring up spi1 during b...
Armbian 20.02.4 Buster ttyGS0 nanopi-r2s login: root Password: Last login: Thu Apr 9 06:09:43 UTC 2020 from 10.0.10.50 on pts/1 _ _ _ ____ ____ ____ | \ | | __ _ _ __ ___ _ __ (_) | _ \|___ \/ ___| | \| |/ _` | '_ \ / _ \| '_ \| | | |_) | __) \___ \ | |\ | (_| | | | | (_) | |_) | | | _ < / __/ ___)...
I see the debian OMV is outdated. Armbian (Debian) is fully up 2 date with OMV 5 or Nextcloud with tons of improvements on top of mainline (K5.4.y, K5.6.y) sources ... :) P.S. I think Neo2 black is not compatible. is upstreamed to mainline kernel as I read uboot was mainlined few years ago. Not eve...
This board is lacking (not in chinese ?) documentation, I lost 3 hours of my life to find out how to enable uart1 (the first 5 pins on the gpio header). So to avoid others losing 3 hours of their life also: As root, cd /boot cp script.bin /root/script.bin.O bin2fex script.bin /root/script.fex edit ...
Hi, I use nanoPi M4 board and I work to improve the boot time. Initially the friendlycore image takes 28sec to start, now I can start image in 12sec (kernel and distribution optimization). I have one way to save time : uboot [0.668417 0.000026] U-Boot 2014.10-RK3399-06-ga6e7a35-dirty (Mar 31 2020 -...
nitipongs wrote:
I have installed friendlycore os on eMMC Core2 . I made some mistake on Python installation .

I need to reformat eMMC and reinstall the os to fix my problem.

How to format eMMC on Core2 ?


You don't format, but boot from a clean SD image and transfer the system once again.
HI , How can I login to Core 2 using SSH without knowing IP address like Raspberry Pi ? In case of Raspberry Pi , I can use ssh pi@raspberrypi.local . without knowing its IP address. Here you can do this as well. If you install AVAHI. Otherwise this way: https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Getting-...
koval wrote:
Hello,
I have

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Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS 4.16.0-rc6
on my NanoPi Neo
I want to switch to stable release, not release candidate.

Is there any instruction how to ?


Use Armbian and you will always have the latest stable releases:

https://www.armbian.com/download/?tx_maker=friendlyelec
Hello, I testing NaniPI R1 in routeur and AP Wifi, inposible work !!!! I have install FriendlyElec xenial 16.04, and config hostapd and dnsmasq, after start dnsmasq root@NanoPi-R1:~# /etc/init.d/dnsmasq status ● dnsmasq.service - dnsmasq - A lightweight DHCP and caching DNS server Loaded: loaded (/...
GoblE wrote:
I did lot of things on my current image


Currently you are not receiving any updates. Not functional nor security for the most important part. That doesn't bothers you?
Thank you for your help igorp! Nice mechanism, unfortunately is not the same with friendlycore image :cry: Armbian support is much better and there are more people which can help you. https://docs.armbian.com/#what-is-armbian Kernel and dtb files seem to be stored in the sdcard, but where.... I onl...
Nobody know where are stored and how we can do to update kernel and dtb files of the rk3399-sd-friendlycore-bionic-4.4-arm64 image ? With Armbian playing with this its easier. https://forum.armbian.com/topic/13347-nanopc-t3-kernel-with-iscsi-support/?tab=comments#comment-97310 https://forum.armbian...
Where did I go wrong??? If you were started with prehistoric kernel 3.4.y this is expected. On "official" images kernel remains the same. But also if you started with a bit more modern, a lot of things can go wrong from upgrade from Jessie to Buster. Start with a clean image from https://...
I need to program 30 NanoPi Neo Plus2 devices. I have one already programmed with Ubuntu 18.04 and other various libraries installed on it, so I was wondering if there is any way to "save" or "clone" this NanoPi to the 25 other ones that need to be set up in this same way using ...
rjaszek wrote:
Please help


1. Download https://www.armbian.com/nanopi-k2/ and install variant you need
2. Plug your wireless and enjoy ~153-200 MBits/s with monitor mode and frame injection
3. Say thanks https://www.armbian.com/donate :)
I wonder if your mother has a computer science degree. Mine does, but even so, I'm pretty sure in her retirement she has not kept up with docker and other virtualized environments on Linux. Though not retired, neither have I. Will access to QEMU through a remote ssh session be sufficient? While I u...
Is it possible and how do I install the Armbian Buster minimal distribution to eMMC? I see the download link here https://www.armbian.com/nanopc-t3/ Ofc its possible. https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Getting-Started/#how-to-install-to-emmc-nand-sata-usb If you have eMMC model with 2G memory, you...
There are two Armbian's builds - Bionic and Buster Let's start with Bionic: root@nanopineo2:~# apt-get install usbip Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package usbip root@nanopineo2:~# apt-get install linux-tools-5.4.20-sunxi...
Thus, there are no suitable kernel modules on my system. Compilation from source is higher magic for me :). ... which is why Armbian exist. You can download ready made images (they are significantly higher quality) https://www.armbian.com/download/?tx_maker=friendlyelec or build your image / kernel...
Is it possible and how do I install the Armbian Buster minimal distribution to eMMC? I see the download link here https://www.armbian.com/nanopc-t3/ Ofc its possible. https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Getting-Started/#how-to-install-to-emmc-nand-sata-usb If you have eMMC model with 2G memory, you...
ejolson wrote:
Note that I've successfully build Wireguard on x86 PCs running Artix linux and successfully on the Raspberry Pi 4 running Raspbian as well as Gentoo


- best 8812AU driver
- wireguard
- dkms
- kernel headers

= Armbian
KERNEL_CONFIGURE="yes" will bring you the kernel menu config up, yes. I can only help you around tools - I am co-author of them I also need to know which flag inside "menu config" that need to be on for broadcasting. ... while on "broadcast problem on the network driver"...
iamneo2416 wrote:
Can you tell me how to re-compile kernel


https://github.com/armbian/build#additional-information
steeley wrote:
ok doesn't work - there appears to be no armbian ubuntu version... !
debian version does not have this option.


Search here:
https://www.armbian.com/nanopi-neo-air/

Direct link:
https://www.armbian.com/donate/

steeley wrote:
I would rather use FA distro if possible


Good luck.
Daitaro wrote:
Title says it all.

In any form?


This https://amzn.to/2Ue3BOC must work on Armbian OOB.

armbian-config -> network -> enable 4G connection
rroetenberg wrote:
Anyone is able to boot from the nvme? I can't find anything to get it managed.


This way:
https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Get ... d-sata-usb

Bood loader must be on eMMC/SD/(optional on SPI). Directly not supported.