Re: [Gumstix-users] Question on Ethernet eth0 not working..

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I downloaded Dave's image, and on boot I get,

Linux version 2.6.21gum (dhylands@dave) (gcc version
4.1.1) #4 Mon Oct 1 22:16:45 PDT 2007
CPU: XScale-PXA270 [69054117] revision 7 (ARMv5TE),
cr=0000397f
Machine: The Gumstix Platform
Memory policy: ECC disabled, Data cache writeback
Run Mode clock: 208.00MHz (*16)
Turbo Mode clock: 416.00MHz (*2.0, active)
Memory clock: 104.00MHz (/2)
System bus clock: 104.00MHz
CPU0: D VIVT undefined 5 cache
CPU0: I cache: 32768 bytes, associativity 32, 32 byte
lines, 32 sets
CPU0: D cache: 32768 bytes, associativity 32, 32 byte
lines, 32 sets
Built 1 zonelists.  Total pages: 16256
Kernel command line: console=ttyS0,115200n8 root=1f01
rootfstype=jffs2 reboot=cold,hard
PID hash table entries: 256 (order: 8, 1024 bytes)
Console: colour dummy device 80x30
Dentry cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768
bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384
bytes)
Memory: 64MB = 64MB total
Memory: 62848KB available (1748K code, 192K data, 132K
init)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: Testing write buffer coherency: ok
NET: Registered protocol family 16
NET: Registered protocol family 2
Time: pxa_timer clocksource has been installed.
IP route cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0,
4096 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2,
16384 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 2048 (order: 1, 8192
bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 2048 bind
2048)
TCP reno registered
JFFS2 version 2.2. (NAND) (SUMMARY)  (C) 2001-2006 Red
Hat, Inc.
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler cfq registered (default)
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x24
pxa2xx-uart.0: ttyS0 at MMIO 0x40100000 (irq = 22) is
a FFUART
pxa2xx-uart.1: ttyS1 at MMIO 0x40200000 (irq = 21) is
a BTUART
pxa2xx-uart.2: ttyS2 at MMIO 0x40700000 (irq = 20) is
a STUART
Probing Gumstix Flash ROM at physical address
0x00000000 (16-bit bankwidth)
Gumstix Flash ROM: Found 1 x16 devices at 0x0 in
16-bit bank
 Intel/Sharp Extended Query Table at 0x010A
 Intel/Sharp Extended Query Table at 0x010A
 Intel/Sharp Extended Query Table at 0x010A
 Intel/Sharp Extended Query Table at 0x010A
 Intel/Sharp Extended Query Table at 0x010A
Using buffer write method
cfi_cmdset_0001: Erase suspend on write enabled
Using static partitions on Gumstix Flash ROM
Creating 3 MTD partitions on "Gumstix Flash ROM":
0x00000000-0x00040000 : "Bootloader"
0x00040000-0x00f00000 : "RootFS"
0x00f00000-0x01000000 : "Kernel"
TCP cubic registered
XScale iWMMXt coprocessor detected.
VFS: Mounted root (jffs2 filesystem).
Freeing init memory: 132K
NET: Registered protocol family 1
eth0: LAN9117 (rev 2) at 0xc4872000 IRQ 131
eth0: Ethernet addr: 02:00:00:00:2f:d0
CPLD responded with: ff
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
usbcore: registered new device driver usb
pxa27x-ohci pxa27x-ohci: PXA27x OHCI
pxa27x-ohci pxa27x-ohci: new USB bus registered,
assigned bus number 1
pxa27x-ohci pxa27x-ohci: irq 3, io mem 0x4c000000
usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 3 ports detected
Initializing random number generator... done.
Starting Bluetooth subsystem: hcid.
Starting network...
udhcpc (v0.9.9-pre) started
Dec 31 16:00:16 udhcpc[306]: udhcpc (v0.9.9-pre)
started
Nothing to flush.
NET: Registered protocol family 17
cfio: module license 'unspecified' taints kernel.
Before register driver
After register driver
Error for wireless request "Set ESSID" (8B1A) :
    SET failed on device mwlan0 ; No such device.
Starting Rendezvous:
NET: Registered protocol family 10
Mobile IPv6
Starting dropbear sshd: OK
Starting httpd...
Starting system message bus: done

Welcome to the Gumstix Linux Distribution!

gumstix login: root
Password:
Welcome to Gumstix!
After staring the gumstix, when I say, ifconfig, I get this, as you can see 
that there is no IP Address assigned to eth0.# ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr
02:00:00:00:2F:D0
          inet6 addr: fe80::ff:fe00:2fd0/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500
Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
          Interrupt:131 Base address:0x2000 DMA
chan:ff

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
frame:0
          TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:2696 (2.6 KiB)  TX bytes:2696 (2.6KiB)

when doing ifup eth0, I get eth0 link down. and ping does not connect to any
remote host.

Any ideas, on what could be the problem? Bad hardware?

Tx
Mayur

Dave Hylands wrote:
> 
> Hi Julien,
> 
>> > What troubles me is that I still don't know how to configure the
>> buildroot
>> > correctly so that I can build the fs/kernel on my own...do I need to
>> change
>> > anything in the kernel makeconfig?
>>
>> To get the appropriate modules compiled:
>> menuconfig > Device Drivers > Network Device Support > Ethernet (10 or
>> 100Mbit) and everything selected except DM9000 support.
>> I think "SMC 91C9X/91C1xxx support" can be disabled too.
> 
> Ahhh - I knew I must have been missing something. (that I did - but
> forgot about).
> 
> I'll update the wiki page later today.
> 
> -- 
> Dave Hylands
> Vancouver, BC, Canada
> http://www.DaveHylands.com/
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