@markwinger
Wait for loboris to build it with OIP plus fex... then the network will work...

@Loboris
I tested the 1st img and is good... will flash the latest img to test the AP mode later after work...

I also tried the debina image.  It boots up fine but no networking.  I'll try it when laboris has a plus version ready.

Mark.

Is it possible to boot with orangepi plus from the EMMC Flash with the ubuntu image (instead of the android which is on EMMC)

Firstly, thank you loboris for the Debian image. It made the board actually usable.
About the non-user networking: Apparenly the OrangePi Linux kernel is an Android version, and Android seems to have some restrictions for non-root networking.
I got the normal user (e.g. orangepi) working by creating a group id 3003/aid_inet and adding user(s) to that group. E.g.

# groupadd -g 3003 aid_inet
# usermod -G aid_inet orangepi

Hope this works for you too.

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.