On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 8:52 PM, David Leeming <da...@leeming-consulting.com> wrote: > Thanks Peter, > > dmesg | grep eth > > shows that the kernel sees the hardware, at least eth0 and eth1 hardware/MAC > addresses are shown, and those agree with that shown from ifconfig -a which > shows eth0, eth1 and lo but only lo with inet address (loopbackl). The > physical ports appear to be inactive, the LEDs don't light up and when > trying with a cable and computer, no network detected.
Does "ethtool eth0" report anything? And "lspci|grep Ethernet" What kernel are you using? Can you provide more details? Peter > Reinstalling with 0.6, the networking works fine > > David > > -----Original Message----- > From: Peter Robinson [mailto:pbrobin...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, 1 August 2012 7:28 p.m. > To: Jerry Vonau > Cc: David Leeming; XS Devel > Subject: Re: [Server-devel] Networking issue with XS 0.7 on EPC-AT270 > > On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 2:16 AM, Jerry Vonau <jvo...@shaw.ca> wrote: >> On Wed, 2012-08-01 at 09:57 +1000, David Leeming wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> >>> >>> I am training some teachers in PNG to set up school servers. We are >>> using the EPC-AT270 (brochure attached, specs on page 7) and >>> previously have installed X_-v0.6 with no problems at all. >>> >>> >>> >>> This time I am trying XS-0.7 but we have a networking issue. It does >>> not configure either of the two Ethernet ports. >>> >>> >>> >>> The EPC-AT270 has two Ethernet ports. >>> >>> >>> >>> The installation is completely default as per the wiki 0.7 >>> installation guide, from CD, starting with an unformatted HDD. No >>> errors are displayed on the screen during installation (but there is >>> some scrolling of data). >>> >>> >>> >>> After installing, the first symptom is that when plugging in a >>> computer or AP to either eth0 or eth1, the port LEDs do not light up >>> and no network is seen by the connecting device. >>> >>> >>> >>> When querying ifconfig -a I can see eth0 and eth1 but they have no IP >>> configuration. >>> >>> >>> >>> Any next steps? Meanwhile we are reverting to 0.6 which is OK on the >>> EPC >> >> To late to run mii-tool now, or check which kernel modules were loaded. >> Or check if HWADDR was set in ifcfg-eth0|1 while having 2 nics with the >> same kernel module: http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/11678 > > mii-tool is mostly (should be completely) obsolete. You should use > ethtool for this functionality as it will work with all detected NICs. > "dmesg | grep eth" will let you know what the kernel sees. > > The Marvell ethernet ports might not be well supported on CentOS 6. > You might want to check if a newer CentOS kernel adds support. > Alternatively you can likely use a Fedora kernel. dsd did that when he > had issues with NIC support on one of the deployments he was involved > with. I suggest checking the mailing list archives for the details. > > Regards, > Peter > > > _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
