I connect a SIL2104 USB to serial gadget to the 3 console pins and plug it in to USB-C. Nothing happens. I thought that maybe U-boot or something might be in NAND, but no dice.
They supply a Debian image on Google drive, but thus far Google is telling me that my "download quota is exceeded at this time". The limit is said to be 750G per day, and I haven't downloaded anything today, so this seems unlikely. I log in to Google on my browser and now it seems that I can download just fine.
This yields a 320M .7z file. You extract the contents using:
7za e Orangepir1plus-lts_2.1.8_debian_buster_server_linux5.10.44.7z -rw-r--r-- 1 tom tom 1803550720 Feb 21 2022 Orangepir1plus-lts_2.1.8_debian_buster_server_linux5.10.44.img -rw-r--r-- 1 tom tom 129 Feb 21 2022 Orangepir1plus-lts_2.1.8_debian_buster_server_linux5.10.44.img.shaSo, I use "dd" to copy this to an SD card, put it into the slot on my R1 and hit the reset button. There is lots of action now on the serial port, but it is all hash at 115200 baud. My notes on the RK3399 say that it runs at 1500000 baud. And YES, that is it. I now see:
orangepir1plus-lts login:I can login as root with password "orangepi".
uname -a Linux orangepir1plus-lts 5.10.44-rockchip64 #2.1.8 SMP PREEMPT Tue Feb 22 09:54:04 CST 2022 aarch64 GNU/Linux cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 1001420 kBI plug a network cable into the port farthest from the console pins and it apparently does DHCP and calls that port eth0.
I can ssh to the IP I see via the "ifconfig -a" command. For fun, I try a quick benchmark and send a 1M file using netcat. It takes .007 seconds, which is twice as fast as on my OrangePi H3. This only makes sense because it is running a 1Gbit.
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