Re: Running 15.1R on Orange Pi 5 Plus, strange things

September 12, 2026 at 11:23 AM, "Florian Smeets" <flo@smeets.xyz mailto:flo@smeets.xyz?to=%22Florian%20Smeets%22%20%3Cflo%40smeets.xyz%3E > wrote:

> 
> On 09.09.26 05:24, Nenhum_de_Nos wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> Hey Matheus,
> 
> > 
> > Last month I had issues with 15.1R on two Orange Pi 5 Plus (OP5P) devices, where git would not resolve ok for opnsense repos on github. After some time and tests, I got to figure that ARM64 was not enough to trigger it, it has to be on OP5P here. I tried more then 3 times on the OP5P and more than 3 elsewhere.
> > 
> how did you get 15.1 running on the Orange PI 5 Plus? I have one lying 
> around, I only know about personalbsd.org and Søren Schmidt's 14.X 
> images. Did you build one yourself?
> 
> I'd be happy to test on mine, but every attempt to upgrade from 14 to 15 
> on mine failed.
> 
> Thanks
> Florian
> 

Hi Florian,

to install 15.1R on the Orange Pi 5 Plus (OP5P), I download the arm memstick install media and then I boot the OP5P using it on a flash drive, a hdd disk using usb to sata and serial adapter to have the console.

I use gpt labels as the usb install media has da0 and the storage has da1. Need to use usb ethernet for this.

Once finished, just reboot.

I use realtek-re-kmod198 for 2.5Gbps NICs.

I just reinstalled one OP5P here:

Cloning into 'opnsense'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 589, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (182/182), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (67/67), done.
Received disconnect from 4.228.31.150 port 22:11: Bye Bye
Disconnected from 4.228.31.150 port 22

fetch-pack: unexpected disconnect while reading sideband packet
fatal: early EOF
fatal: fetch-pack: invalid index-pack output


On RPI5 that was not present.

thanks,

matheus