On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 11:01 PM, Christopher Rawnsley <[email protected]> wrote: > On 15 Jan 2009, at 01:22, Christopher Rawnsley wrote: >> >> So recently effort has been put into areas that I am interested in getting >> my Eee PC 901 up and running (specifically by Sepherosa Ziehau with age(4) >> and Michael Neumann with USB image creation in nrelease. Thanks guys! :-) ). > > Oops! I've mixed up my age(4)s and ale(4)s! So I've just tried to get > *ale(4)* working on the Eee but I'm having some issues: > 1) the device is occasionally detected. I'll boot up - it's detected - then > reboot without changing anything and it's gone again. ( I haven't yet > discovered the cause as to why this is )
Could you post the dmesg if detection fails? > 2) when the device is detected and showing up in ifconfig I tried a > 'dhclient ale0' which resulted in stdout getting a lot of messages like > "ale0: phy read timeout: 1" and occasionally "ale0: phy write timeout: 1". 1 is BMSR. It would be helpful, if you could post the dmesg. > The number at the end changes but is normally a one. > > -- > Chris > > P.S. Is ale(4) now in GENERIC? I have loaded it at boot time and sometimes > left it out but it's been detected on both occasions at least once. It is in GENERIC. Best Regards, sephe -- Live Free or Die
