Trouble getting Wan DHCP IP number.

[dpreviti]

Is any one else having trouble getting their card to take an IP number via DHCP?

I’m following the guide in the FAQs but I can’t seem to get the interface to communicate even if I set it manually with ifconfig.

[dpreviti]

I’m following this faq: http://wiki.espressobin.net/tiki-index.php?page=Quick+User+Guide

And having the same issues as this gentleman:

# ifconfig eth0 up
# dhclient wan
[ 162.790397] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wan: link is not ready
[ 164.323110] dsa dsa@0 wan: Link is Down
[ 165.331782] dsa dsa@0 wan: Link is Up – 100Mbps/Full – flow control rx/tx
[ 165.338761] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wan: link becomes ready

(I presume they meant “enter” and not “insert”.)

I tried that …
Note that the online doc never mentions what happens next. Do I wait a second, or a few minutes?

In my case, several minutes later, I’m still waiting.

I just saw some output that implies dhclient (or someone) did a “PING” after a few minutes,
albeit unsuccessfully, to 192.168.10.252.

I just got “rm: cannot remove ‘/etc/resolv.conf.dhclient’: No such file or directory
I also just got “cat: /etc/resolv.conf.*: No such file or directory”
followed by

[…] dsa dsa@0 wan: Link is Down

Can anyone already setup or from Marvell help?

[Benjamin Huang]

Hi dpreviti,

I don’t seem to have this issue in my network environment, I have my ESPRESSObin connected to the Ethernet through its wan port and power it up. Then under the buildroot prompt if do ifconfig eth0 up then dhclient wan, in about 8 seconds the dhclient wan returns with valid IP address acquired from the DHCP server. See my log below:

Starting NFS services: done
Starting NFS daemon: done
Starting NFS mountd: done
Starting vsftpd: OK
Starting HPA’s tftpd:
Welcome to Buildroot
buildroot login: root
# ifconfig eth0 up
# [ 16.087887] mvneta d0030000.ethernet eth0: Link is Up – 1Gbps/Full – flow control off

# dhclient wan
[ 29.060437] dsa dsa@0 wan: Link is Down
[ 32.077210] dsa dsa@0 wan: Link is Up – 1Gbps/Full – flow control rx/tx
# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr F0:AD:4E:03:69:30
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:43 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:532
RX bytes:7164 (6.9 KiB) TX bytes:700 (700.0 B)
Interrupt:9

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1
RX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1
RX bytes:140 (140.0 B) TX bytes:140 (140.0 B)

wan Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr F0:AD:4E:03:69:30
inet addr:10.82.40.149 Bcast:10.82.43.255 Mask:255.255.252.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:43 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:6218 (6.0 KiB) TX bytes:684 (684.0 B)

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If you may post your full log here, we maybe find some clues.

[dpreviti]

Benjamin,

I got it, I dragged out an old hub and it recognized it immediately. For some reason it didn’t like being or plugged directly into the wall.

Can I ask you a stupid question? Am I missing something, or does the Linux version shipped not have a package manager, making it effectively useless? I’m assuming the first matter of business to use this for anything is to either format the sd or add an external drive and put a new os on it?

Thanks!!

David

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