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

[Jerry Vonau]

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


Jerry