Re: [DNG] Allwinner Olimex OLinuXino MICRO (A20) Devuan Jessie no Ethernet

2017-10-16 Thread Rick Moen
Quoting John Franklin (frank...@tux.org): > Are you looking specifically for something with the Pi’s bare-board > form factor? The Zotac C-series of barebones machines also support > SATA and have no fans. (At least in the spin-and-move-air sense. > They have lots of users-that-love-using-them

Re: [DNG] Allwinner Olimex OLinuXino MICRO (A20) Devuan Jessie no Ethernet

2017-10-14 Thread Nate Bargmann
Sometimes, one simply stumbles upon an answer. Checking the Olimex forums I came afross this thread: https://www.olimex.com/forum/index.php?topic=5839.0 the final reply by one of the Olimex employees (I presume) says thus: The new controller has an extra pin called ETXERR, which is connected

Re: [DNG] Allwinner Olimex OLinuXino MICRO (A20) Devuan Jessie no Ethernet

2017-10-13 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2017 13 Oct 14:45 -0500, Giovanni Rapagnani wrote: > I have a A20-OLinuXino-MICRO running Debian Jessie with a linux kernel > 4.8.17 I compiled myself. I needed support for a USB wifi nic not supported > by the kernel delivered with Olimex image. > > I compiled more modules (~2500) than

Re: [DNG] Allwinner Olimex OLinuXino MICRO (A20) Devuan Jessie no Ethernet

2017-10-13 Thread Giovanni Rapagnani
On 13/10/17 04:01, Nate Bargmann wrote: To close this out, I worked with parazyd for a while on IRC this morning and this noon and his assessment is that the hardware drivers are loaded and things should be working. Well, it's not so back to the Olimex Debian image from which I've already

Re: [DNG] Allwinner Olimex OLinuXino MICRO (A20) Devuan Jessie no Ethernet

2017-10-13 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2017 13 Oct 03:36 -0500, info at smallinnovations dot nl wrote: > On 13-10-17 06:42, Gregory Nowak wrote: > >On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 09:01:05PM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > >>The Pi is unreliable with > >>a USB hard drive what with its USB and Ethernet being on shared > >>interrupts. BTDT,

Re: [DNG] Allwinner Olimex OLinuXino MICRO (A20) Devuan Jessie no Ethernet

2017-10-13 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2017 12 Oct 23:23 -0500, John Franklin wrote: > Are you looking specifically for something with the Pi’s bare-board > form factor? The Zotac C-series of barebones machines also support > SATA and have no fans. (At least in the spin-and-move-air sense. > They have lots of

Re: [DNG] Allwinner Olimex OLinuXino MICRO (A20) Devuan Jessie no Ethernet

2017-10-13 Thread info at smallinnovations dot nl
On 13-10-17 06:42, Gregory Nowak wrote: On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 09:01:05PM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: The Pi is unreliable with a USB hard drive what with its USB and Ethernet being on shared interrupts. BTDT, lost the data once. Interesting. I've been using a pi3 for almost two years 24/7

Re: [DNG] Allwinner Olimex OLinuXino MICRO (A20) Devuan Jessie no Ethernet

2017-10-12 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 09:42:17PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote: > On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 09:01:05PM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > The Pi is unreliable with > > a USB hard drive what with its USB and Ethernet being on shared > > interrupts. BTDT, lost the data once. > > Interesting. I've been

Re: [DNG] Allwinner Olimex OLinuXino MICRO (A20) Devuan Jessie no Ethernet

2017-10-12 Thread Gregory Nowak
On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 09:01:05PM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > The Pi is unreliable with > a USB hard drive what with its USB and Ethernet being on shared > interrupts. BTDT, lost the data once. Interesting. I've been using a pi3 for almost two years 24/7 with a usb drive, and have seen no

Re: [DNG] Allwinner Olimex OLinuXino MICRO (A20) Devuan Jessie no Ethernet

2017-10-12 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2017 12 Oct 11:27 -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > Danger Will Robinson! > > My research shows that Olimex OLinuXino MICRO (A20) has an Allwinner > bios, and any web search shows clearly that Allwinner is a serial GPL > violator. I guess it would be wise to smash the whole thing to bits and

Re: [DNG] Allwinner Olimex OLinuXino MICRO (A20) Devuan Jessie no Ethernet

2017-10-12 Thread Adam Borowski
On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 12:26:19PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > On Wed, 11 Oct 2017 21:44:14 -0500 > Nate Bargmann wrote: > > > I just received a Olimex OLinuXino MICRO (A20) board yesterday and > > have been playing with it. It works just fine with the Olimex > > provided Debian

Re: [DNG] Allwinner Olimex OLinuXino MICRO (A20) Devuan Jessie no Ethernet

2017-10-12 Thread Steve Litt
On Wed, 11 Oct 2017 21:44:14 -0500 Nate Bargmann wrote: > I just received a Olimex OLinuXino MICRO (A20) board yesterday and > have been playing with it. It works just fine with the Olimex > provided Debian Jessie. Danger Will Robinson! My research shows that Olimex OLinuXino

Re: [DNG] Allwinner Olimex OLinuXino MICRO (A20) Devuan Jessie no Ethernet

2017-10-12 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2017 12 Oct 07:31 -0500, Adam Sampson wrote: > Hi Nate, > > Nate Bargmann writes: > > > I just received a Olimex OLinuXino MICRO (A20) board [...] The > > problem is that the ethernet port simply isn't passing traffic (it > > works just fine with the Olimex official image). >

Re: [DNG] Allwinner Olimex OLinuXino MICRO (A20) Devuan Jessie no Ethernet

2017-10-12 Thread Adam Sampson
Hi Nate, Nate Bargmann writes: > I just received a Olimex OLinuXino MICRO (A20) board [...] The > problem is that the ethernet port simply isn't passing traffic (it > works just fine with the Olimex official image). With the mainline kernel on an A20 (not Allwinner's custom

Re: [DNG] Allwinner Olimex OLinuXino MICRO (A20) Devuan Jessie no Ethernet

2017-10-12 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2017 11 Oct 21:56 -0500, mdn wrote: > It's being a while but I remember having trouble because the ethernet > MAC address is randomly generated at each start. So far, the MAC address is the same between Olimex Debian and embedded Devuan. Even so, if the port were working, that shouldn't be

Re: [DNG] Allwinner Olimex OLinuXino MICRO (A20) Devuan Jessie no Ethernet

2017-10-11 Thread mdn
It's being a while but I remember having trouble because the ethernet MAC address is randomly generated at each start. Le 12/10/2017 04:44, Nate Bargmann a écrit : > I just received a Olimex OLinuXino MICRO (A20) board yesterday and have > been playing with it. It works just fine with the Olimex

[DNG] Allwinner Olimex OLinuXino MICRO (A20) Devuan Jessie no Ethernet

2017-10-11 Thread Nate Bargmann
I just received a Olimex OLinuXino MICRO (A20) board yesterday and have been playing with it. It works just fine with the Olimex provided Debian Jessie. As I would like a newer kernel to use BTRFS with a SATA drive, I found my way to our friendly Devuan images. I imaged a different micro SD