On Thursday 22 October 2009, Niall Haslam wrote:
> On 21 Oct 2009, at 18:22, Al Johnson wrote:
> > On Wednesday 21 October 2009, Niall Haslam wrote:
> >> On 21 Oct 2009, at 18:09, Petr Vanek wrote:
> >>> NH> > NH> I recently flashed to shr and am currently unable to get
> >>> usb
> >>> NH> > NH> networking working. When I go into mokonnect it informs me
> >>> NH> > NH> that the connman-plugin-ethernet is not installed.
> >>> NH> > NH>
> >>> NH> > NH> I have flashed the full version of SHR and kind of
> >>> expected
> >>> NH> > NH> this sort of thing to have been installed by default. Has
> >>> NH> > NH> anyone else had the same problem - figured a way round it?
> >>> NH> >
> >>> NH> > usb networking works out of box, no need for mokonnect. please
> >>> NH> > share with us:
> >>> NH> >
> >>> NH> > running from u-boot or qi, nand or uSD
> >>> NH> > if booting with u-boot, did you use correct kernel to flash/
> >>> copy?
> >>> NH> > what system are you trying to connect to?
> >>> NH>
> >>> NH> I'm using qi. I'm trying to connect to my work macbook. Since
> >>> I've
> >>> NH> just moved house/country I don't have my linux box or any
> >>> internet
> >>> NH> at home :(.
> >>> NH>
> >>> NH> This is the relevant dmesg output from the macbook.
> >>> NH> AppleUSBCDCACMData: start: InterfaceMappings dictionary not
> >>> found
> >>> NH> for this device. Assume CDC Device...
> >>> NH>       0        0 AppleUSBCDCACMData: start - Find CDC driver
> >>> failed
> >>> NH> AppleUSBCDCECMData: Version number - 3.2.13, Input buffers 8,
> >>> NH> Output buffers 32
> >>> NH> AppleUSBCDCECMData: Ethernet address 00:1f:11:01:63:0c
> >>>
> >>> sorry, i have no macbook knowledge in thus regards... have you tried
> >>> this:? http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/MacOS_X#USB_Networking
> >>
> >> USB networking was previously working on the macbook with the
> >> openmoko
> >> out of the box. i.e. I would just plug it in and make sure the /etc/
> >> resolv.conf was set correctly on the neo. But now it doesn't even
> >> connect to the macbook nevermind the outside world.
> >>
> >> I have looked at that page, however since it was working before the
> >> latest upgrade I feel the problem lies somewhere else other than the
> >> basic setup.
> >
> > Exactly which version did you flash, and how old was the previous
> > version? I'm
> > not aware of any changes to the usb networking in shr since the
> > change from
> > variable MAC to the genuine MAC for the moko. On linux PCs this
> > meant the
> > interface would be seen as ethX instead of usbX, but I've no idea what
> > difference it would make on a Mac. This change was some time ago -
> > it feels
> > like months anyway.
> 
> It appears my macbook got confused by the number of eth interfaces
> that it had to create. Interestingly I cleaning these up managed to
> crash (kernel panic) the macbook - something I don't see very often.
> After scrubbing the eth interfaces on the macbook and retrying the neo
> it worked. Also - this problem of  mac os X creating multiple
> interfaces seems to have gone away. Can anyone else comment on that?

That sounds like a result of the change from variable MAC to fixed, real MAC. 
OS X was probably creating a new interface for each variable MAC it 
encountered. Now the MAC is fixed it is always associated with the same 
interface.
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