Linux Distributions for Orange PI H3 boards

Survive-Pi · Published in 2015-10-25 00:08:02

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 · Published in 2015-10-25 02:20:49

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 · Published in 2015-10-25 03:36:22

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

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 · Published in 2015-10-25 04:28:43

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

loboris · Published in 2015-10-25 04:33:13

bizongod replied at 2015-10-24 20:36
Hi!
I'm trying to configure DVB-T on OPi plus.
I have compiled kernel from Loboris with enabled dri ...

Firmware loading problem is well known (many wifi adapters do not work because of the same problem). Still looking for solution.

loboris · Published in 2015-10-25 04:49:20

Thumos replied at 2015-10-24 15:29
Not being proficient in Linux, I struggled with the install process somewhat. I did an install write ...

Thanks, I've added the link to the 1st post.

bizongod · Published in 2015-10-25 06:26:48

Edited by bizongod at 2015-10-25 06:57

loboris replied at 2015-10-25 04:33
Firmware loading problem is well known (many wifi adapters do not work because of the same problem ...

Firmware problem exist with all firmwares, or some work?Maybe this is problem with udev? As I see, there is no script etc for
loading firmware or no built-in command firmware.

Ok, I tried to load firmware to module manually, like this :

echo -n 1 > /sys/$DEVPATH/loading
cat /lib/firmware/$(uname -r)/$FIRMWARE > /sys/$DEVPATH/data \
|| cat /lib/firmware/$FIRMWARE > /sys/$DEVPATH/data
if [ $? = 0 ]; then
echo -n 1 > /sys/$DEVPATH/loading
echo -n -1 > /sys/$DEVPATH/loading
fi

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Just substituting variables, also does not work.

Thanks,
Karol

Cores · Published in 2015-10-25 06:49:03

Is there a way to get the RTL8191SU from realtek running?

Harald · Published in 2015-10-25 07:09:02

Edited by Harald at 2015-10-25 07:16

geev03 replied at 2015-10-24 21:32
Tried Ubuntu_wily ('Ubuntu_wily_mini.img.xz - Boris Lovošević ') on Orange Pi-PC.
How to get th ...

geevv03: follow this precisely and your wired ethernet should work:
"After burning the image to the SDCard, download scriptbin_kernel.tar.gz from Mega or GoogleDrive.
It contains the latest kernel and script.bin
Unpack and copy uImage_OPI-2 to sdcard fat partition, rename to uImage.
Copy script.bin.OPI-PLUS_xxxxpyy to sdcard fat partition, rename to script.bin.
You may also copy the lib directory to the linux partition (if you are on Windows, do it after booting to OPI)."
(source: loboris)

My experience with the OPI-PC and Loboris distributions:
LEDs:
when power is first connected, only the Ethernet two LEDs are on solid, no red LED.
with no or bad micro-SD, and power connected, the red LED is off.
when booting is good and starts, the red LED is on solid.
if trouble during boot, the Red LED flashes, and booting halts.
(on Android the green LED flashes ocassionally while booting ok?)
when boot is ok, the wired Ethernet LED start flashing indicating it is trying to connect.
When all is OK, the red LED is on solid. The green LED is off. The Ethernet LEDs flash with LAN activity.

loboris · Published in 2015-10-25 07:14:49

Edited by loboris at 2015-10-25 00:41

bizongod replied at 2015-10-24 23:26
Firmware problem exist with all firmwares, or some work?Maybe this is problem with udev? As I see, ...

It looks like it is related to udev (which from version 217 no longer has userspace firmware loader and needs kernel 3.7 or higher for firmware's to be loaded).
Could you test with Ubuntu Trusty, it has an older udev version (204) that should work ?
Debian wheezy and jessie should also work as they also have older udev (175/215).

Someone reported that firmware loading for his wifi adapter works, but I don't remember if he mentioned on which distro he tested.