Linux Distributions for Orange PI H3 boards

Survive-Pi

stone replied at 2015-10-23 19:22
@survive-pi:  You need to solve the intermittent ping failure issue.  You are going to get halfway t ...

So if the ping returns steadily like the first half of that ping picture then i have a chance to install on line... working fine right now... How do you stop the ping? xterm I can just close the window. When i did it without gui I couldn't get out...

toxuin

Survive-Pi replied at 2015-10-23 19:38
So if the ping returns steadily like the first half of that ping picture then i have a chance to i ...

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Survive-Pi

toxuin replied at 2015-10-23 20:55
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Thank you very much! Went back to latest image, Ubuntu wily. Install to emmc works. Install mate desktop works. ONLY change was point WiFi antenna up... Tell me how THAT affected emmc... LOL. Thank you everyone, learned lots! But nothing at same time... I just don't know what changed. Thanks again. I'll be watching

geev03

Tried Ubuntu_wily ('Ubuntu_wily_mini.img.xz  - Boris Lovošević ')  on Orange Pi-PC.
How to get the network connection?  dmesg | grep eth0 gives the following
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[   21.404633] gmac0 gmac0: eth0: eth0: PHY ID 0000ffff at 0 IRQ poll (gmac0-0:00)
[   21.414821] gmac0 gmac0: eth0: Initialize hardware error
[   21.663956] gmac0 gmac0: eth0: eth0: PHY ID 0000ffff at 0 IRQ poll (gmac0-0:00)
[   21.674148] gmac0 gmac0: eth0: Initialize hardware error
[   21.879945] gmac0 gmac0: eth0: eth0: PHY ID 0000ffff at 0 IRQ poll (gmac0-0:00)
[   21.891679] gmac0 gmac0: eth0: Initialize hardware error
[   22.067493] gmac0 gmac0: eth0: eth0: PHY ID 0000ffff at 0 IRQ poll (gmac0-0:00)
[   22.077680] gmac0 gmac0: eth0: Initialize hardware error
[   22.243938] gmac0 gmac0: eth0: eth0: PHY ID 0000ffff at 0 IRQ poll (gmac0-0:00)
[   22.254126] gmac0 gmac0: eth0: Initialize hardware error
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AndrewStone

@geev03 are any leds blinking on the eth jack?  If not it is powered off.  You did not pick the right kernel image in the BOOT partition.  What board do u have?  Pi plus?

Thumos

Not being proficient in Linux, I struggled with the install process somewhat. I did an install write=up that provides a little more step=by=step detail for people just starting out with the Orange Pi PC and Linux. Nothing really orginal here but it may be useful to someone:  http://vosse.blogspot.com/2015/10/installing-linux-img-files-on-orange-pi.html

Survive-Pi

Thumos replied at 2015-10-24 07:29
Not being proficient in Linux, I struggled with the install process somewhat. I did an install write ...

Excellent job! I create my sd card from a Windows laptop...seem a little more simple but I could do it now from linux with your instructions. One thing I do differently to save space and confusion...is delete all of the files that don't pertain to my board. I only have a Plus so I delete all the script.bin_not_plus files and all uimage_not_plus files.
Again, excellent job. I've bookmarked your instructions so I can find them again.

geev03

AndrewStone replied at 2015-10-24 22:12
@geev03 are any leds blinking on the eth jack?  If not it is powered off.  You did not pick the righ ...

The leds glow and they  are steady on the eth jack.
The board is Orange Pi-PC that has no such problems with Debian image from the same author .

bizongod

Hi!
I'm trying to configure DVB-T on OPi plus.
I have compiled kernel from Loboris with enabled drivers for
DVB-T and tuner I have (IT9135).

Now I have trouble with loading firmware for this tuner.
dmesg says

1. dvb-usb: did not find the firmware file. (dvb-usb-it9135-02.fw) Please see linux/Documentation/dvb/ for more details on firmware-problems. (-2)

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, but this file exists in /lib/firmware

Does anybody have experienced this problem?

Thanks,
Karol

loboris

Gentoo Linux uploaded to Mega

• configured
• wired network enabled
• ssh enabled
• ntp installed and enabled
• some additional programs installed (htop, mc (MidnightCommander), gentoolkit, tmux, btrfs-progs, ...)
• user orangepi, password orangepi
• root password orangepi