I'm trying to set up a Rock64 to connect to wifi using a Panda PAU09 USB wifi adapter.  The adapter is mounted in a fixed location, and when connected to my laptop running Ubuntu Bionic, I am able to easily connect to my own wifi network, as well as my school's secure network and their guest network using NetworkManager.  However, when I connect the adapter to the Rock64, I am unable to connect to any wifi networks, in spite of seeing them listed when I do a network scan.  I have tried this using Armbian Stretch and Bionic images, and also using ayufan's Bionic image.  When using nmcli to bring up the connection, I usually receive the error message "The Wi-Fi network could not be found".  However, scanning for networks usually shows the network I am attempting to connect to with good signal strength.  Other times, the connection will actually "succeed" but I won't be able to communicate over it and then the connection just goes down within seconds.

Any ideas on how I could make this work?

I have just received a pinebook. First that I noticed that sound is mono. Is it a hardware restriction?

So I tried to install MAME on the Pinebook. Would be nice, to have some games around and MAME should be lightweight....
So, after installing and basically configuring, I tried to start my first game

$ mame -nojoy galaga

... and what did I get?
libGL error: unable to load driver : sunxi_dri.so

As title, I just got my Pinebook(14', 1366x768 edition) today, 
was using apt command to upgrade LibreOffice and launched Firefox at the same time, just when I typed a few characters at address bar in Firefox,
everything stucked, I had to force it to shutdown and boot again, after that I just can't get the keyboard and touchpad working again, now the only working input is the power button, I can still connect my USB mouse/keyboard to have working input, but that'd totally lose the meaning of Pinebook being easy to carry around, the same situation doesn't change when I switch to Android from Ubuntu Mate, any suggestion?

Has anyone successfully overclocked the SoPine A64 microSD reader with a device tree overlay? U-Boot reports it's 50MHz out of the box. However, this person was able to overclock his Pi3 microSD frequency with a device tree overlay. 

Ref: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2016/h...berry-pi-3

Have we this know-how in our community for our Allwinner A64?

Anyone try to add a separate power button and unhook the power button from the keyboard?  The current one being a regular keyboard key instead of a separate button has caused me some issues.

Anyone tried to swapout the pinebook keyaboad?  The Pinebook has got to has the worst keyboard I ever used and I'm looking to swap it out with something with bigger SHIFT keys and NO POWER Button!  Why they decided a "regular" key would be a good power button instead of a separate push button or even a toggle is beyond me.

I know that the bottom half will need to be modified but I am willing to toss it if someone can bpoint me to a good alternative that will fit the general space and form factor.

I bought a RockPro64 and am trying to build a budget 10GbE storage.
I plugged an AQC107 based ASUS 10GbE card (XG-C100C) into its PCIEx4 adapter and Samsung 860EVO 1TB via USBC-SATA conversion cable (lsusb shows "ASM1051E SATA 6Gb/s bridge, ASM1053E SATA 6Gb/s bridge, ASM1153 SATA 3Gb/s bridge"), and no problem mounting it.

The image I chose this time is stretch-minimal-rockpro64-0.7.11-1075-arm64 and the driver for the card is Atlantic driver (Atlantic-2.0.15.0).
I downloaded the driver from Aquantia's website and had no problem building and installing.
After 'modprobe atlantic' the board immediately recognized the card as enp1s0. Then its idle power consumption (with all devices active) is around 10W, whose almost half the 10GbE card accounts for.

After changing its MTU from 1500 (default) to 9000, I performed iperf and I got a result around 2.70Gbps, though it seems that the result is not stable, sometimes the value going down to 2.30Gbps or lower.
I don't know why but manually assining iperf processes to a specific core (taskset -c 5 iperf -s, for example) seems to offer better and stable results that is 3.00Gbps.

At this point the effective speed as a NAS (sharing the SSD through SMB and mount it from a Windows client, transferring large data manually and observe how much it takes to complete) is approx. 330MB/s for read and write, and 4k random read/write is 7MB/s and 4KB Q8T8 and 4K Q32T1 for read are both 117MB/s, while it's both 100MB/s for write, says CrystalDiskMark 6.0.2. The peak power consumption is just 15.0W, so it's very power-efficient compared to x86-based 10GbE systems.

This is a great gain to have, considering the limit ROCK64 has.
Currently I have an impression that RockPro64 is an ideal solution for HDD-based NAS, and it would be fun if I would buy more boards and build a distributed system. But it's a little slow for SSD-based NAS, especially when looking at random read/write values.

I wonder if there is anyone who have had more comfortable results with 10GbE NICs and SSDs, to know whether I can get more out of this board or I've reached the limit.
Launching iperf multithreaded (-P6) greatly increased total bandwidth from 3Gbps at most to over 9Gbps, but after all SMB is not multithreaded and what matters most is achieving higher single-thread performance for personal use.
I admit there is room for optimization, so I will post if I have a significant improvement in performance.

Hi,

I need some help here because I need install Gapps in my Android 8.1.0 installation but I don't understand the process, inside this thread (https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=6684) I downloaded all needed files. The problem comes when I read:

Activate developer mode and get a root shell:

./adb device

./adb root

./adb remount


......
............ and so....


I don't understand nothing, 

How I active developer mode? where? I suppose inside my android 8.1.0in my rockpro64 or but not sure...

After that I think that I should launch those commands but from where???? root shell? Should I connect my rockpro64 through class c cable to my windows pc and launch from cmd windows console??? so if the answers is yes, before I must have installed in my windows pc the SDK package? No???? And then????

God! without knowledge's is so difficult, every step ends in a wall!!! 

Please, a kind soul could help me???? If so I promise create and upload here a "baby-step-guide" for people like me. 

Thanks!

Hello all!

I'm looking to run fedora core 29 on my Rock64 board and am running into the following issue... The grub.efi app fails to start after its loaded into ram...