Krisbee wrote: > - > The best laid schemes o' mice an' men- ... Thanks for given it go, at > least some progress was made. Looking elsewhere for hints re: > cubietruck network problems didn't show anything obvious. But I > belatedly realised that the current version of Triode's cubietruck > installer tries to download firmware for the inbuilt bluetooth/wifi > combo chip ( ap620 ?) from what is now a non-existant source. However > the ethernet module ought to be loaded and must at least have worked > initally. If stuff is dropping off your network, is it possible you have > a switch/router problem (dhcp leases or something ?). > > Without a cubietruck to work on, I'm in the dark. Here are couple of > threads over at "Arch Linux Arm" which show just how things can change: > > http://archlinuxarm.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=8218&start=10 > http://archlinuxarm.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=8665 > > I didn't realsie until today that "Arch Arm Linux" had listed the > Cubietruck as one of thier supported ArmV7 platforms : > http://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv7/allwinner/cubietruck > > If you fell like a repeat, you could follow the instructions on that > page to create a basic Arch SD card image, which should a least allow > you to test your cubietruck ethernet. Not too many steps, and you can > just cut & paste them into a linux command line. I supose it's possilbe > to take some of Triode's installer script to get his work installed on > top of that.
Thanks Chris, I'll try later in the week. I think the network problem is specific to the SoA image as when i tried volumio that was rock solid. Also the Cubietruck/SoA was used at two different locations. atb Ronnie ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Man in a van's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=43627 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101624 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
