dreamplug: setting ethernet address by hand, getting pkgng to work, wireless?

[Johan Henselmans]

On 14 nov. 2012, at 16:21, Ian Lepore <freebsd at damnhippie.dyndns.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 11:56 +0100, Johan Henselmans wrote:
>> I still do not get the hardware ethernet addresses from the machine
>> (it still reports 00:00:00:00:00:00), so I decided to set them
>> manually in /etc/start_if.mge0:
>> 
>> dramplug-bsd:~ # cat /etc/start_if.mge0
>> ifconfig mge0  ether f0:ad:4e:01:44:46 
> 
> I didn't have any trouble with this, both my interfaces got good
> addresses automatically.  Looking at the mge driver code, it wants to
> use the local-mac-address property from the .dts file as long as it's
> not all zeroes.  If it is all zeroes, it uses the value already
> programmed into the hardware.
> 
> In my case, I would always let uBoot set up both interfaces and then
> boot the unit via TFTP, so maybe I was getting good mac addresses
> because uBoot set them up and the mge driver just used those values.
> 
> -- Ian
> 
> 

Found the culprit: replacing the uboot firmware with the latest version caused the uboot environment variables for the ethernet hardware to disappear, 

by setting ethaddr and eth1addr in the uboot environment, that got solved. 
Example:

Marvell>> setenv ethaddr f0:ad:4e:01:xx:xx
Marvell>> setenv eth1addr f0:ad:4e:01:xx:xx
Marvell>> saveenv
Marvell>> reset


Johan Henselmans
johan at netsense.nl