"opkg upgrade" breaks USB networking: g_ether module missing

[W.Kenworthy]

I was able to borrow an OM wall charger for a few minutes and it charges
at 1A as it should.  At 7% battery, I tried USB again with the same
results as below.  Its looking like usb charging via a laptop is broken
with this kernel.

Billk



On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 13:58 +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote:
> Has there been any changes to charging? (modules needed?)  For todays
> kernel I cant get USB charging above 100ma.
> 
> As I am at 0% battery (shown by apm) I have shut it down/removed the
> battery until I get home and can use the wall charger, I am assuming
> that as it boots it *should* charge at 500ma (as it used to do before
> the upgrade.)
> 
> Billk
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 06:50 +0100, Andy Green wrote:
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> > Somebody in the thread at some point said:
> > | On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 02:46:31AM +0200, Thomas B. wrote:
> > |> Hi,
> > |>
> > |> in the most recent kernel, USB networking is no longer compiled in, but
> > |> compiled as a module. I think that's generally a good thing, the problem
> > |> is that the upgrade path seems to be broken: I just did an "opkg
> > |> upgrade", and it installed the new kernel, but not the g-ether and
> > |> cdc-ether modules. The result was that after rebooting I couldn't ssh
> > |> into my device anymore. My solution was to flash an older kernel,
> > |> install the missing modules with opkg, then re-flash the new kernel.
> > |
> > | Hm, spoke too soon: After the first reboot with the new kernel, USB
> > | networking still didn't work. I did some fumbling on the device's
> > | terminal, of which the essential thing seems to be running "depmod".
> > | Then after a second reboot, USB networking worked again.
> > 
> > Thanks for working through that... really the scriptlet for kernel
> > module installs should do the depmod.  And arguably the new modules
> > should be dependencies for the kernel package...
> > 
> > - -Andy
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