[Freedombox-discuss] Ethernet difficulties on early dreamplug version.

[Nick Daly]

Craig, can you attach your /etc/network/interfaces file?  They're
different between the Virtualbox and DreamPlug versions, and I wonder
whether we have the wrong one going to the DP?

On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 5:00 PM, Craig Barnes <cjbarnes18 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Have just tried loading the weekly image onto my plug, I've had this
> difficulty on earlier images but have not had the time to dig into it
> until now.
>
> following successful boot the ethernet ports are not functioning.
> They where working with the original image, I havnt attempted to
> reload that image yet.
>
> I believe it is an earlier version device (0802) but the way to
> determine this is not entirely clear.
>
> The following output from ip link with one of the ports connected to my switch.
>
> root at freedombox:~# ip link
> 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT
>     link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
> 2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN mode
> DEFAULT qlen 1000
>     link/ether 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
> 3: eth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN mode
> DEFAULT qlen 1000
>     link/ether 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
>
> googling the module (mv643xx_eth) hasn't  shed any light on this either.
>
> At the moment my only access to the os is via the JTAG.
>
> Any suggestions on this would be much appreciated.
>
> --
> Craig
>
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