Need help BananaPi R2

Banana Pi Router design
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Hello to all,

nice to meet my potential saviors.

My problem:

  • buying a Banana Pi R2 on AliExpress
  • When I load an OS on a SD card (Ubuntu, PFsense…) and I try to start the Banana nothing happens, only the three LEDs Red, Green and Blue light up without any change or flashing.
  • The OS have been written with ETCHER I don’t know what to do even if I use UART.

Please let me know if anyone has had the same problem as me.

Thank you in advance.

BPI-R2 V1.2

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Have you pressed powerbutton long enough? Do you see anything on debug-uart? Without it’s nearly impossible to find error

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Hello,

yes of course

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The characters I see on the debug are unreadable

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Even if I press the power button for 15 seconds

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If you prefer, the LEDs are lit but remain fixed

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Then your uart is incompatible (which vendor) or wrong mode (should be 115200 8 8n1).

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I am checking the USB cable which is potentially incompatible

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I use cp21x2 which works well…profilic is known to be buggy

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I do not know this model

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nothing to do the characters appear illogically. As if they are not correctly translated

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Look this mixtures

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I have put in this link two pictures that show what I have by the UART Debug port.

Without pressing the power button

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Yes this looks like scrambled output of profilic usb2uart,but i have seen this only on powered device

Make sure you have connected gnd and tx to rx twice. Else try another usb2serial chipset

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I am going to use this model, is it good?

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I have one looking similar and it works good.

Lokal buy is much more expensive but with order in cn (ebay) you need to wait multiple weeks :frowning:

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Finally it works under debian. Thanks again for your help. Now I want to be able to put PFSense (freebsd) on it and I haven’t seen anyone on the forum doing the installation would you have any idea of the right file to configure?

Thanks

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Afair freebsd is not available as it does not use linux kernel.

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I thought that like all other distributions Freebsd had a Linux kernel. Excuse me for my lack of knowledge but I’m trying to understand the way things work.

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Openwtr is not Freebsd?