Orange Pi 5 Max test image - feedback

General Discussion
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I just tested the orange pi 5 max testing image from here:

And… it’s working great! I can even install wiringOP and i have access to GPIO. It seems very stable, just a little bit slower than Joshua-Riek Ubuntu image (I need to do more tests).

Question: Can I update the installation from testing to release image, after the stable release?

Thanks

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yes, just switch DietPi branch once the release is out. At least as long as there are no more serious changes that make a new installation absolutely necessary.

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raphamotta - does the WiFi work for you out of the box? Mine does not with the Bookworm DietPi release.

I’m not sure exactly what’s missing but the wifi device is listed as “Not Found” in dietpi-config. It is working on the same Orange Pi 5 max with the Joshua Riek Ubuntu image (on 6.1.0-1025-rockchip).

I’m giving the dietpi Bullseye and Trixie images a shot now

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I didn’t test wifi, but indeed IIRC appears as not found. I’m not at home right know, will test it later today

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Thanks.

I get the same issue on Bullseye and Trixie images. No real surprise.

Specs say it uses AP6611 with SDIO 3.0. Not sure where to go from here but I’ll try to find out later if that’s supposed to already be in the kernel or if there are overlay’s missing etc.

Oh - looking at the ubuntu-rockchip repo it may be as straight forward as installing the “bcmdhd-sdio-dkms” package to get the missing module. I’ll give that a shot later.

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There is a GitHub issue that seems similar. Can you have a look guys OrangePi 5 Max Wifi is not working with DietPi 9.9 · Issue #7338 · MichaIng/DietPi · GitHub

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Ah, thanks. It seems they’ve gone down the path of building a vendor kernel rather than a DKMS package. Great - thanks for pointing out that issue.

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Just tested, wifi indeed is not working. I tried to install the package without success :

root@DietPi:~# dpkg -i bcmdhd-sdio-dkms_101.10.591.52.27-2_all.deb
(Reading database ... 20886 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack bcmdhd-sdio-dkms_101.10.591.52.27-2_all.deb ...
Deleting module bcmdhd-sdio-101.10.591.52.27-2 completely from the DKMS tree.Unpacking bcmdhd-sdio-dkms (101.10.591.52.27-2) over (101.10.591.52.27-2) ...Setting up bcmdhd-sdio-dkms (101.10.591.52.27-2) ...
Loading new bcmdhd-sdio-101.10.591.52.27-2 DKMS files...
Building for 6.1.75-vendor-rk35xx
Module build for kernel 6.1.75-vendor-rk35xx was skipped since the
kernel headers for this kernel do not seem to be installed.
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I just pushed a new kernel build to our APT server. Can you give this one a try?

apt update
apt upgrade

Problem was, even that the driver for this WiFi chip is included, it was compiled for PCIe bus only, not the needed SDIO bus, and it is not possible to compile it for both busses at one. We ship a dedicated kernel package for the Orange Pi 5 Max now, hence DKMS hassle can be skipped.

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After the upgrade, wifi is working fine. It’s also working in a new installation. Thanks.

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Great, I’ll also update our images, so that initial network can be setup via WiFi already.