[yocto] run-time problem - poky-image-lsb-sdk-beagleboard

[Gary Thomas]

On 03/24/2011 06:49 AM, Robert Berger wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Using rpm instead of ipk I'm able to build
> poky-image-lsb-sdk-beagleboard even with the lastest and greatest from
> git (commit aeaa356a5ee77b4596c479451a9db289381a4d16 Sat Mar 19 01:30:12
> 2011 +0000)
>
> The problem I have now is, that on my beagle-xm networking does not seem
> to get an IP address from my dhcp server.
>
> root at beagleboard:~# ifconfig -a
> lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
>            inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
>            inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
>            UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
>            RX packets:50 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>            TX packets:50 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>            collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>            RX bytes:5375 (5.2 KiB)  TX bytes:5375 (5.2 KiB)
>
> usb0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 06:ba:3b:e0:1f:b2
>            BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1492  Metric:1
>            RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>            TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>            collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>            RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
>
>
> Manually it seems to work:
> root at beagleboard:~# ifconfig usb0 192.168.42.67
> root at beagleboard:~# ifcusb0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0xC5E1
>
> root at beagleboard:~# ifconfig
> lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
>            inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
>            inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
>            UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
>            RX packets:55 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>            TX packets:55 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>            collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>            RX bytes:6140 (5.9 KiB)  TX bytes:6140 (5.9 KiB)
>
> usb0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 06:ba:3b:e0:1f:b2
>            inet addr:192.168.42.67  Bcast:192.168.42.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>            inet6 addr: fe80::4ba:3bff:fee0:1fb2/64 Scope:Link
>            UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1492  Metric:1
>            RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>            TX packets:26 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>            collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>            RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:5472 (5.3 KiB)
>
> A sato image built from exactly the same sources had dhcp working out of
> the box.

What does /etc/network/interfaces show?  Is it different between the two images?

n.b. I've not tried any of the LSB images, just poking in the dark.

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