run-time problem - poky-image-lsb-sdk-beagleboard

Hi,

Using rpm instead of ipk I'm able to build poky-image-lsb-sdk-beagleboard even with the lastest and greatest from git (commit aeaa356a5ee77b4596c479451a9db289381a4d16 Sat Mar 19 01:30:12 2011 +0000)

The problem I have now is, that on my beagle-xm networking does not seem to get an IP address from my dhcp server.

root@beagleboard:~# ifconfig -a
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:50 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:50 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:5375 (5.2 KiB)  TX bytes:5375 (5.2 KiB)

usb0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 06:ba:3b:e0:1f:b2
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1492 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)

Manually it seems to work:

root@beagleboard:~# ifconfig usb0 192.168.42.67
root@beagleboard:~# ifcusb0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0xC5E1

root@beagleboard:~# ifconfig
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:55 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:55 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:6140 (5.9 KiB)  TX bytes:6140 (5.9 KiB)

usb0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 06:ba:3b:e0:1f:b2
inet addr:192.168.42.67 Bcast:192.168.42.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::4ba:3bff:fee0:1fb2/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1492 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:26 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:5472 (5.3 KiB)

A sato image built from exactly the same sources had dhcp working out of the box.

Regards,

Robert

..."Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it."
- Olivier

My public pgp key is available at:
http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x90320BF1

What does /etc/network/interfaces show? Is it different between the two images?

n.b. I've not tried any of the LSB images, just poking in the dark.

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Gary Thomas                 |  Consulting for the
MLB Associates              |    Embedded world
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Hi,

To our both surprise they are identical (see below).
... and if you ask my uneducated guess I would say this should not work, since usb0 is static ?!?!

... but, surprisingly enough it does on sato ...

... and if I make the following change in lsb-sdk it still does not :

iface usb0 inet dhcp

it also does not work if I hardcode the network conf for usb0 in /etc/network/interfaces

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# /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8)

# The loopback interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# Wireless interfaces
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wireless_mode managed
wireless_essid any
wpa-driver wext
wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

iface atml0 inet dhcp

# Wired or wireless interfaces
iface eth0 inet dhcp
iface eth1 inet dhcp

# Ethernet/RNDIS gadget (g_ether)

# ... or on host side, usbnet and random hwaddr
iface usb0 inet static
	address 192.168.7.2
	netmask 255.255.255.0
	network 192.168.7.0
	gateway 192.168.7.1

# Bluetooth networking
iface bnep0 inet dhcp

Regards,

Robert...Good judgment comes from experience... and experience comes from bad judgment.- Fred Brooks

My public pgp key is available at:
http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x90320BF1