Richard Cooke wrote: > 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 >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/support >> >> >> > > Hehe, i booted the host multiple times and connected different USB things to it trying to work out what was wrong with the USB port. :-)
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