[yocto] USB Ethernet problems

[Gary Thomas]

On 2013-04-05 03:08, Hans Beckérus wrote:
> Hi. In our configuration we do not have an on-board Ethernet device. It connected to the USB-host adapter.
> It seems that probing of such devices are done very late in the kernel boot-up which means it gets out of sync with the network init script(s)
> and the NIC thus has to be brought up manually after boot.
>
> ...
> usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 2 using xusbps-ehci
> hub 1-1:1.0: USB hub found
> hub 1-1:1.0: 4 ports detected
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) on device 1:0.
> devtmpfs: mounted
> Freeing init memory: 152K
> INIT: version 2.88 booting
> usb 1-1.4: new high-speed USB device number 3 using xusbps-ehci
> Starting Bootlog daemon: bootlogd: cannot allocate pseudo tty: No such file or directory
> bootlogd.
> Configuring network interfaces... ifconfig: SIOCGIFFLAGS: No such device
> INIT: Entering runlevel: 5
> Starting Dropbear SSH server: NET: Registered protocol family 10
> dropbear.
> Starting syslogd/klogd: done
> Stopping Bootlog daemon: bootlogd.
> asix 1-1.4:1.0: eth0: register 'asix' at usb-xusbps-ehci.0-1.4, ASIX AX88772 USB 2.0 Ethernet, fc:75:16:cf:6a:86
> ...
>
> Is there some way to configure a system through Yocto to handle this scenario?
>

I run exactly this setup on many different platforms with no issues
so it can definitely be done with Poky/Yocto.

What system (target) are you using?
What version of the metadata (Poky/Yocto) are you using?  master?  danny?  etc
How is your network device configured?

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