Yeah. Worked for me too. Spent a day fiddling with the wrong box before giving up and asking for help. Maybe there's a lesson to be learned here.
Zack Mollusc wrote: > > Richard Cooke wrote: >> It is a shame you have alienated the support staff on this list since I >> suspect I am not on my own in having difficulty getting USB networking >> between the freerunner and Ubuntu up and running. >> >> I am something of a Linux noob and a complete openmoko beginner and >> perhaps >> as such I was a little rash in taking this thing on. I am running Ubuntu >> 8.04 64 bit on an AMD64 box. >> >> I have spent a couple of days trawling google trying to get this going >> and >> late last week was successful enough to be able to upgrade my device. I >> thought at the time that maybe I should never power down my box again, >> but >> power it down I did. >> >> The problem I now have is that I am unable to get usb0 recognized as an >> interface by ifconfig. >> >> The command: >> ifconfig usb0 192.168.0.200 >> >> results in >> SIOCSIFADDR: No such device >> usb0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device >> >> I have tried modprobing usbnet and cdc_ether but the problem remains. >> >> Help from any quarter would be much appreciated as I am at my wits' end. >> >> Thanks, >> >> >> Richard >> >> > > Hello, i am also a noob running umbongo (i am on 32bit 8.04) and i had a > similar problem. > I broke the whole thing on the fr and no longer had a gui, I flashed the > root filesystem > (Openmoko-Freerunner-20080424-om-gta02.rootfs.jffs2)and seemed to lose > usb connectivity, with similar host response, and after some vain faffing > about with the host machine(i thought the usb port had become confused) > , I flashed the kernel (uImage-2.6.24+git20080424-om-gta02.bin) and that > seemed to fix it for me. Obviously I had to install the apps again. > Good luck. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > support mailing list > support@lists.openmoko.org > https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/support > > -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/USB-networking-in-Ubuntu-tp666197p675803.html Sent from the Openmoko Support mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ support mailing list support@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/support