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

[Craig Barnes]

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