On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 4:25 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a Beaglebone Black deployed at a customer site that is reporting a > large number dropped RX packets in ifconfig: > > Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr c8:a0:30:34:b8:09 > inet addr:10.121.6.30 Bcast:10.121.6.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 > inet6 addr: fe80::caa0:30ff:fe34:b809/64 Scope:Link > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:10201019 errors:0 dropped:2478997 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:3304697 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 > RX bytes:1240516851 (1.1 GiB) TX bytes:250440920 (238.8 MiB) > Interrupt:40 > > Are there any settings that may be adjusted on the Beaglebone that may help > or is this likely a cabling/network issue at the site or a defective NIC? > Would it be common for the default network settings to not be able to handle > incoming packets fast enough (installed BeagleBone Debian Image 2014-04-23)? > I installed ethtool, but it appears that most options are not supported in > this Debian image. When I ping anything on the local network, I'm getting > 5-10% dropped packets.
There's been a few tweaks to the cspw driver since 2014-04-23.. Grab the latest via: wget http://rcn-ee.com/repos/debian/pool/main/l/linux-upstream/linux-image-3.8.13-bone71_1wheezy_armhf.deb sudo dpkg -i linux-image-3.8.13-bone71_1wheezy_armhf.deb #backup: sudo mv /boot/uboot/zImage /boot/uboot/zImage_old sudo mv /boot/uboot/dtbs/ /boot/uboot/dtbs_old/ #install kernel/dtbs: sudo cp -v /boot/vmlinuz-3.8.13-bone71 /boot/uboot/zImage sudo mkdir -p /boot/uboot/dtbs/ sudo cp -v /boot/dtbs/3.8.13-bone71/*.dtb /boot/uboot/dtbs/ Regards, -- Robert Nelson https://rcn-ee.com/ -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
