Armbian for Cubie A5E

#21

Have u seen the new toy? ! The A7Z

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This looks good but… how many years till video of fun?

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#22

A733 is not even in that table yet and for A5e this looks mostly red :confused:
for now there are only non-UFS and 1GB/8GB RAM options available,
FPC on side, I guess that will be a problem for most addons, 2.5G HAT listed as compatible, it will look ugly with this board,

Specs are promising, but for now non-UFS options and no designed accessories makes this weird choice. I hope we will see UFS variants soon and of course much better software support.

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#23

Lets start the bets folks…
5$ for 2 years till mainline
10$ for 5 years…
Make ur bid…

After 1 year we are already with the rock 6 out… :weary:

#24

Boot with Armbian_community_25.11.0-trunk.173_Radxa-cubie-a5e_bookworm_edge_6.16.0_minimal.img is looking good.

Both network cards are up and running.

WiFi has not enabled (where it was enabled with 6.14.0-rc1) I can see the device in lshw though - was there a patch dropped between these two releases?

root@radxa-cubie-a5e:~# nmcli device wifi list
root@radxa-cubie-a5e:~# lshw
*-mmc1
   description: MMC Host
   physical id: 6
   logical name: mmc1
 *-device
      description: SDIO Device
      physical id: 390b
      bus info: mmc@1:390b
      serial: 0
      capabilities: sdio
    *-wifi:0
         description: Wireless interface
         physical id: 1
         bus info: mmc@1:390b:1
         logical name: mmc1:390b:1
         capabilities: wireless
         configuration: wireless=IEEE 802.11
    *-wifi:1
         description: Wireless interface
         physical id: 2
         bus info: mmc@1:390b:2
         logical name: mmc1:390b:2
         capabilities: wireless
         configuration: wireless=IEEE 802.11
#25

Self fixed it. It does look like this is already included in the post install, not sure if it was in this image (or why it didn’t execute for me.)

wget https://github.com/radxa-pkg/aic8800/releases/download/4.0%2Bgit20250410.b99ca8b6-2/aic8800-sdio-dkms_4.0+git20250410.b99ca8b6-2_all.deb
wget https://github.com/radxa-pkg/aic8800/releases/download/4.0%2Bgit20250410.b99ca8b6-2/aic8800-firmware_4.0+git20250410.b99ca8b6-2_all.deb
dpkg -i aic8800-firmware_4.0+git20250410.b99ca8b6-2_all.deb 
dpkg -i aic8800-sdio-dkms_4.0+git20250410.b99ca8b6-2_all.deb
reboot
apt install network-manager
nmcli device wifi list
nmcli device wifi connect "$SSID" password "$PASSWORD"
#26

Can you test the follow: