Orange Pi Zero

[CharlesSpong]

I am struggling to get the orange pi zero to work, i have tried two images so far debian jessie and ubuntu xenial both from the armbian website. Currently i am using jessie and all i can get is a blinking light on the left hand side of the ethernet port.

--Update--
Needed to use more stable power supply

[bingo600]

Have 2 on the way.

Sems like armbian would work ok.

They say you need a "stiff" 5V/2A PSU , and that WiFi is never going to work on the Zero (unstable & low throughput)

They also say @armbian, that the Orange's original OS'es overheat the CPU , due to crazy CPU poweregister settings.

/Bingo

[martinayotte]

Yes, Armbian is working fine on OPiZero, it can even boot from USB drive or dongle after flashing U-Boot into the SPI-NOR.

[HSPalm]

The Orange Pi Zero tricked me (or I tricked it), when I used both CR and LF when interfacing it during initial setup with the debug UART port. Linux doesn't like CR, or doesn't interpret it as I hoped.