Linux Distributions for Orange PI H3 boards

loboris · Published in 2015-6-18 18:50:44

jukkas replied at 2015-6-18 15:13
Firstly, thank you loboris for the Debian image. It made the board actually usable.
About the non- ...

Thank you very much!
There was CONFIG_ANDROID_PARANOID_NETWORK=y set in Linux config. I've disabled it and recompiled the kernel and now everything is working as it should.
I don't know how I forgot it. And I've had similar problem with RK3188 kernel.

loboris · Published in 2015-6-18 18:59:56

Update

problem with Internet access solved
some small improvements
images for OrangePI-PLUS uploaded, please try (I don't have plus to try)

Warning
Uploaded images have the wrong scripts for desktop instalation (install_lxde_desktop & install_mate_desktop).
Please download desktop-scripts.tar.gz from Mega, unpack and replace the scripts in /usr/local/bin
Check that they are executable.
Sorry fo that.

derrickyee81 · Published in 2015-6-18 19:01:29

Any m8 managed to get AP working???
I tried install hostapd but having driver issues.

Must i compile the hostapd from RTL site?

Cheers

fritz · Published in 2015-6-18 19:08:10

@loboris for opi plus you need to patch the kernel and for u-boot make it with script.bin support it's simpler for end-user to change script.bin then to rebuild u-boot.

loboris · Published in 2015-6-18 19:17:07

fritz replied at 2015-6-18 19:08
@loboris for opi plus you need to patch the kernel and for u-boot make it with script.bin support it ...

Thank you, I'll try that later.
For now, I've uploaded the images for OrangePI-PLUS (with u-boot built with OPI-PLUS fex).

fritz · Published in 2015-6-18 19:25:19

Which config you use for kernel building?
personal or the one posted in this forum?

loboris · Published in 2015-6-18 19:41:34

Edited by loboris at 2015-6-18 19:49

Hint:
If you don't get lightdm login screen after installing the desktop, please do the following:
(You can do it immediately after running instal_lxde|mate_desktop, just in case)

login to console (Ctrl+Alt+F1)
run:

sudo apt-get remove xserver-xorg --purge
sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg
sudo reboot

loboris · Published in 2015-6-18 19:45:13

fritz replied at 2015-6-18 19:25
Which config you use for kernel building?
personal or the one posted in this forum?

I'm, using my own config. I've added some drivers (I need USB serial adapters support & btrfs support e.g.)
I also had to replace included rootfs.cpio.gz.

markwinger · Published in 2015-6-18 19:59:11

I just tried both ubuntu and debian images. Harwire networking does not work on either (Have not tried wireless).

Ubuntu gives an error about eht0 hardware initialization error.

Mark.

loboris · Published in 2015-6-18 20:07:25

Edited by loboris at 2015-6-18 20:16

markwinger replied at 2015-6-18 19:59
I just tried both ubuntu and debian images. Harwire networking does not work on either (Have not tr ...

Have you downloaded the right image for your board (there are separate images for OPI-2 and OPI-PLUS).
I only have OPI-2, I've not tested OPI-PLUS (but when I boot with PLUS image on OPI-2 I don't get ethernet).
Whe you run ifconfig, you must get something like this:

orangepi@OrangePI:~$ ifconfig
eth0    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr ee:39:db:ae:4f:ff
      inet addr:192.168.178.96  Bcast:192.168.178.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
      inet6 addr: fe80::ec39:dbff:feae:4fff/64 Scope

ink
      UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
      RX packets:232 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
      TX packets:229 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
      collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
      RX bytes:33478 (33.4 KB)  TX bytes:22088 (22.0 KB)
      Interrupt:114

lo       Link encap

ocal Loopback
      inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
      inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
      UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
      RX packets:350 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
      TX packets:350 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
      collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
      RX bytes:35928 (35.9 KB)  TX bytes:35928 (35.9 KB)

wlan0    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:e0:4c:f0:18:9e
      UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
      RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
      TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
      collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
      RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

wlan1    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 02:e0:4c:f0:18:9e
      UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
      RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
      TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
      collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
      RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)