FreeBSD 10.0 on Raspberry PI B+ no network devices

George Rosamond george at ceetonetechnology.com
Tue Aug 26 23:20:50 UTC 2014


Erich Dollansky wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 25 Aug 2014 16:35:36 +0200 (CEST)
> Andreas Schwarz <Andreas.Schwarz at schwarzes.net> wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, 25 Aug 2014 09:05:35 -0400 Paul Mather
>> <paul at gromit.dlib.vt.edu> wrote:
>>> On Aug 25, 2014, at 4:56 AM, Erich Dollansky
>>> <erichsfreebsdlist at alogt.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>>> 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.
>>
>> I've got also two B+ Models two weeks ago and I'm able to use the
>> image (r269955) from my B Models without any problems. The only
>> thing, what I had to do, was to upgrade the bootloader to a recent
>> version.
>>
>> Have a look at :
>>
>>   https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/tree/master/boot
>>
> I used now the image from
> 
> http://freebsd-current.os-hackers.jp/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/20140725/raspberry-pi/
> 
> and the machine boots. I do not know more at the moment.

I assume the entire RPi firmware from Github directory gets dumped into
/boot/msdos?

g



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