[Server-devel] Networking issue with XS 0.7 on EPC-AT270

[Peter Robinson]

On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 8:52 PM, David Leeming
<david at leeming-consulting.com> wrote:
> Thanks Peter,
>
> dmesg | grep eth
>
> shows that the kernel sees the hardware, at least eth0 and eth1 hardware/MAC
> addresses are shown, and those agree with that shown from ifconfig -a which
> shows eth0, eth1 and lo but only lo with inet address (loopbackl). The
> physical ports appear to be inactive, the LEDs don't light up and when
> trying with a cable and computer, no network detected.

Does "ethtool eth0" report anything? And "lspci|grep Ethernet" What
kernel are you using? Can you provide more details?

Peter

> Reinstalling with 0.6, the networking works fine
>
> David
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Robinson [mailto:pbrobinson at gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, 1 August 2012 7:28 p.m.
> To: Jerry Vonau
> Cc: David Leeming; XS Devel
> Subject: Re: [Server-devel] Networking issue with XS 0.7 on EPC-AT270
>
> On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 2:16 AM, Jerry Vonau <jvonau at shaw.ca> wrote:
>> On Wed, 2012-08-01 at 09:57 +1000, David Leeming wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I am training some teachers in PNG to set up school servers. We are
>>> using the EPC-AT270 (brochure attached, specs on page 7) and
>>> previously have installed X_-v0.6 with no problems at all.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> This time I am trying XS-0.7 but we have a networking issue. It does
>>> not configure either of the two Ethernet ports.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The EPC-AT270 has two Ethernet ports.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The installation is completely default as per the wiki 0.7
>>> installation guide, from CD, starting with an unformatted HDD. No
>>> errors are displayed on the screen during installation (but there is
>>> some scrolling of data).
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> After installing, the first symptom is that when plugging in a
>>> computer or AP to either eth0 or eth1, the port LEDs do not light up
>>> and no network is seen by the connecting device.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> When querying ifconfig -a I can see eth0 and eth1 but they have no IP
>>> configuration.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Any next steps? Meanwhile we are reverting to 0.6 which is OK on the
>>> EPC
>>
>> To late to run mii-tool now, or check which kernel modules were loaded.
>> Or check if HWADDR was set in ifcfg-eth0|1 while having 2 nics with the
>> same kernel module: http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/11678
>
> mii-tool is mostly (should be completely) obsolete. You should use
> ethtool for this functionality as it will work with all detected NICs.
> "dmesg | grep eth" will let you know what the kernel sees.
>
> The Marvell ethernet ports might not be well supported on CentOS 6.
> You might want to check if a newer CentOS kernel adds support.
> Alternatively you can likely use a Fedora kernel. dsd did that when he
> had issues with NIC support on one of the deployments he was involved
> with. I suggest checking the mailing list archives for the details.
>
> Regards,
> Peter
>
>
>