[tom.i]

@stappers – as you can see from my comment I wrote, that I couldn’t type there anything.
Fortunately @cuddlepuncher helped me with screen and it works like a charm 😉

[tom.i]

Wouldn’t be bad to have some antibot system, because @ekyme is spamming us very hard on all threads with Russian arguments 😀

[tom.i]

@armbian – I like it, it works perfectly 😛
WIFI, LAN, CPU scaling – these I’ve tried yesterday
Is there any solution how to check sensors? Or have I to install lm-sensors package from repo? Because after start, there are some information from login script, that it shows temps of HDD and so on, so if there is existing program you Armbian guys using there can you tell me the name of it?
I’ve tried to check WIKI, but there are just some information.

And again, thx a lot @armbian for your help 😉

[tom.i]

Hi Leo,
yesterday I’ve tried Armbian from this post and wifi works without problem too.
So maybe I’m done with selection of right distribution for EspressoBin (finally) 😀

[tom.i]

Maybe drivers from @bryan which he mentioned here will be fine.
But I’m not sure, if it helps to the Realtek wifi card.

[tom.i]

Hello Adam,
do you have Realtek RTL8191SE from GlobalScale or another one? I would like to use that drivers from FTP server which Bryan sent us.
So I would like to know, if that drivers helped or not, because my compiled drivers doesn’t work for this mPCI wifi card 🙁

[tom.i]

It’s strange, but I can’t write Armbian IMG file to my SD card. Etcher doesn’t work for my distro(VoidLinux) – some weird message appears, so I’ve tried Etcher CLI, but it writes 1,5GB image in few seconds.

sudo ./etcher index.js -d /dev/sdg -y Armbian_5.32.170626_Espressobin_Ubuntu_xenial_default_4.4.73/Armbian_5.32.170626_Espressobin_Ubuntu_xenial_default_4.4.73.img                                                                                                                    
Flashing [========================] 100% eta 0s                                      
Validating [========================] 100% eta 0s                                    
Your flash is complete!                   
Checksum: 61a8e836

Of course, that it didn’t boot.
So I’ve tried to make 2 partitions. 100MB vfat and 2nd rest with ext4. To the 1st one I’ve put there basic booting files from EspressoBin (Image, armada-3720-community.dtb) and then use “dd” to copy IMG file to 2nd partition.
No luck, same problem no boot at all.
Am I doing this wrongly?

[tom.i]

Yes, I had same problem. So I had to buy 2 cables and make changes on them 🙂
So I bought these cables:
1) Female MOLEX with Male SATA
2) Male MOLEX with Female SATA

Then cut both, and use just Femela MOLEX with Female SATA inside terminal strip for same colors.

[tom.i]

Hi,
for me it’s same issue. I’ve that Realtek WIFI card which Marvell put inside the package, but I can’t use it in Ubuntu too.
I followed same wiki pages as you ( http://wiki.espressobin.net/tiki-index.php?page=Configuring+Realtek+RTL8191SE+mini+PCIe+WiFi+card ), but it doesn’t help and inserting mods doesn’t start wifi card:

root@espressobin:/home# insmod rtlwifi.ko 
root@espressobin:/home# insmod rtl8xxxu.ko 
root@espressobin:/home# insmod rtl_pci.ko 
root@espressobin:/home# insmod rtl8192se.ko 
root@espressobin:/home# iw reg set US
root@espressobin:/home# hostapd -B hostapd.conf 
Configuration file: hostapd.conf
Could not read interface wlan0 flags: No such device
nl80211: Driver does not support authentication/association or connect commands
Could not read interface wlan0 flags: No such device
nl80211 driver initialization failed.
hostapd_free_hapd_data: Interface wlan0 wasn't started

I don’t know if I have made any mistake or…

[tom.i]

So wifi works without problem as well? Or are there any issues with HW or SW?
Because, I’m now on Ubuntu, and WIFI seems that doesn’t work properly, LAN connection has some small issue after boot, but I would like to use Armbian, but I don’t know, if all is working or not.

[tom.i]

Cool man, I’ll check it.

I’ve tried to boot from Windows manchine and it works. I’m going to switch it back to Linux 😛

[tom.i]

No, I haven’t tried another PC, I just tried it at home. I can try it on Fedora22 (work PC), but I think that it isn’t problem of the PC.

[tom.i]

Can someone tell me, how can I boot over U-Boot from minicom?
1. I did copy whole image of Archlinux to SD card as mentioned here: http://wiki.espressobin.net/tiki-index.php?page=Boot+from+removable+storage+-+ArchLinux
2. Insert SD card to SD card slot.
3. Plugin 12V
4. Plugin USB to my PC (VoidLinux).
5. There is some output from starting EspressoBin but I can’t write anything there:
https://pastebin.com/2rYyChgi

I’ve tried “Echo” function from MiniCom app, but it’s not possible to insert there normal text, I can delete whole output and if I write some comands after “Marvell>” there is no response.

Can anyone help me please?

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