missing eth0

[peter boehm]

hello arne,

sorry i am on the road with a html mail interface. if i look into the 
list archive and press reply the text of the original message is not 
included and i have to copy and insert it to the answer. at the bottom 
there is my original message of this thread.

meanwhile i made a dmesg on both neos and they differ from each other. 
here the relevant parts.

on the working neo:
[    8.390000] sdio_wlan 00:01: driver attached
[    8.395000] sdio_wlan 00:01: SDIO device, IDs SD_0001 (active)

on the not working neo:
[    3.535000] pnp: the driver 'sdio_wlan' has been registered

it seems that driver is registered but the device is not being activated.

on both neos uname -a is giving the same:
Linux om-gta02 2.6.24 #1 PREEMPT Thu Nov 6 02:57:37 CST 2008 armv4tl unknown

as i said before (first message) both neos are flashed with the same 
images and system from http://downloads.openmoko.org/releases/Om2008.9/

Om2008.9-gta02-20081106.uImage.bin
Om2008.9-gta02-20081117.rootfs.jffs2

already with the "original" and delivered system Om 2007.2 (old stable) 
the wifi on the same neo did not work.

anybody knows how to check if the wlan hardware is working or defect?

thanks
peter

On Thu Dec 11 16:36:30 CET 2008, arne anka wrote:
 > please, always answer the last message! otherwise your messages are
 > completely out of context an there's no thread to follow.

 > sounds as if you (and your friend) use a monlithic kernel with the > 
 > > module
 > built in.
 > to make sure, do
 > uname -a
 > and compare the kernel version number.
 > additionally you need to give the name of the distribution you are > 
 > > using,
 > since i do not know where to find logs, maybe saying something useful.
 >
 > try
 > logread
 > or
 > dmesg


On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 6:56 PM, peter boehm <boehm at mlab.at> wrote:

 > hello list,
 >
 > i purchased a neo freerunner and flashed it successfully with
 >
 > Om2008.9-gta02-20081106.uImage.bin
 > Om2008.9-gta02-20081117.rootfs.jffs2
 >
 > my problem is that the eth0 device (interface) is not present on the
 > system:
 >
 > # ls /sys/class/net/
 > /sys/class/net/lo/    /sys/class/net/usb0/
 >
 > therefore i am unable bring up the eth0 interface i.e:
 >
 > # /sbin/ifconfig eth0 up
 > ifconfig: SIOCGIFFLAGS: No such device
 >
 > on my friends device with the same system and kernel the eth0 interface
 > is brought up and we can see it in /sys/class/net/eth0/ and also it can
 > be brought up with the ifconfig command.
 >
 > any help would be appreciated
 > peter