[Gumstix-users] issues with verdex xm4 and netmicro-sd

[dmh2000 <dm...@gm...>]

ISSUE #1:

I received my xm4 and netmicro-sd. At an anti-static workstation, I
carefully connected the two boards together, following the instructions of
where to press when connecting. I first applied power without connecting the
ethernet cable. The 02 LED on the netmicro-sd illuminated immediately. the
01 LED did not. I powered down and connected a known good ethernet cable to
the netmicro-sd. the cable connects to a switch that has a working DHCP
server. I powered back up. the 02 LED illuminated immediately and the 01 LED
stayed dark. The link status light on the switch did not come on. I tried 2
other cables to no effect. I then connected the cable to a 100baseT hub
(instead of the switch) and tried again. The link status light on the hub
did not illuminate and the LED's on the board stayed the same, 02 on and 01
off.

I monitored the connection thru the hub with Wireshark and did not see any
DHCP traffic. I did a ping sweep of the entire subnet and did not get a
response from the board.

unfortunately I do not yet have the serial console board because it was back
ordered, so I cannot tell if the motherboard is booting at all. I expected
the link lights on the netmicro-sd to respond properly even if the board did
not boot, since they are controlled by the LAN chip. I could be wrong there.


It appears either the ethernet board or the motherboard has a problem. I
would wait until I received the console board, except that if it takes too
long the 30 day warranty will expire.

Is there anything I am missing? The support faq is a little ambiguous about
the ethernet. One says that the ethernet adapter is enabled by default on
boot, but another says you must do 'ifconfig eth0 up' to enable the port
(and the LED's).

Is the described behavior normal, or should I assume a hardware problem?

ISSUE #2

I purchased the wifi-module-FCC. The web site description says "**** this
product comes with one wifi antenna. ". however I only got the module and no
antenna. Should I just contact sales about this?

thanks

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dave howard
dm...@gm...