Unnecessary rant - Was: Re: USB networking in Ubuntu

[Zack Mollusc]

Richard Cooke wrote:
> Yeah. Worked for me too. Spent a day fiddling with the wrong box before
> giving up and asking for help. Maybe there's a lesson to be learned here.
>
>
> Zack Mollusc wrote:
>   
>> Richard Cooke wrote:
>>     
>>> It is a shame you have alienated the support staff on this list since I
>>> suspect I am not on my own in having difficulty getting USB networking
>>> between the freerunner and Ubuntu up and running.
>>>
>>> I am something of a Linux noob and a complete openmoko beginner and
>>> perhaps
>>> as such I was a little rash in taking this thing on. I am running Ubuntu
>>> 8.04 64 bit on an AMD64 box.
>>>
>>> I have spent a couple of days trawling google trying to get this going
>>> and
>>> late last week was successful enough to be able to upgrade my device. I
>>> thought at the time that maybe I should never power down my box again,
>>> but
>>> power it down I did.
>>>
>>> The problem I now have is that I am unable to get usb0 recognized as an
>>> interface by ifconfig.
>>>
>>> The command:
>>> ifconfig usb0 192.168.0.200
>>>
>>> results in
>>> SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
>>> usb0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
>>>
>>> I have tried modprobing usbnet and cdc_ether but the problem remains.
>>>
>>> Help from any quarter would be much appreciated as I am at my wits' end.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>>
>>> Richard
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> Hello, i am also a noob running umbongo (i am on 32bit 8.04) and i had a
>> similar problem.
>> I broke the whole thing on the fr and no longer had a gui, I flashed the
>> root filesystem
>> (Openmoko-Freerunner-20080424-om-gta02.rootfs.jffs2)and seemed to lose
>> usb connectivity, with similar host response, and after some vain faffing
>> about with the host machine(i thought the usb port had become confused)
>> , I flashed the kernel (uImage-2.6.24+git20080424-om-gta02.bin) and that
>> seemed to fix it for me. Obviously I had to install the apps again.
>> Good luck.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>
>   
Hehe, i booted the host multiple times and connected different USB
things to it trying to work out what was wrong with the USB port. :-)