FreeBSD 10.0 on Raspberry PI B+ no network devices

Erich Dollansky erichsfreebsdlist at alogt.com
Mon Aug 25 13:37:44 UTC 2014


Hi,

On Mon, 25 Aug 2014 15:33:27 +0200
Ralf Wenk <iz-rpi03 at hs-karlsruhe.de> wrote:

> > > I got recently two Raspberries B+. I downloaded the file
> > > FreeBSD-10.0-STABLE-arm-armv6-RPI-B-20140406-r264194.img.bz2 and
> > > copied it to a memory card. 
> > > 
> > > I edited rc.conf to be able to use the Raspberries without
> > > keyboard. The problem is now that no network comes up.
> > > 
> > > ue0 simply does not exist.
> > > 
> > > What do I do wrong here?
> > > 
> > > It must be something simple I just do not see.
> > 
> > You are likely not doing anything wrong.  As I understand it, the
> > Model B+ uses a slightly different USB controller/revision to the
> > Model B, and this might not be recognised/supported yet by
> > FreeBSD.  The network is via USB on Raspberry Pi, so the USB
> > support problem would cause the network not to work/be recognised.
> > 
> > This may have been fixed recently, though, so you might want to try
> > a more recent image.
> 
> Last month YAMAMOTO Shigeru wrote a mail that he has the same problem
> with a official image while his own one is fine.
> He suggested to use a newer firmware for the official image.
> 
> Please have a look at
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arm/2014-July/008872.html
> for his mail and a link to his image(s) for a RaspberryPi B+.

it seems to be the same problem. I am currently downloading the image.

Erich


More information about the freebsd-arm mailing list