[Arm-netbook] SHIPPING!: EOMA-68 Micro Engineering Boards

[luke.leighton]

On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 9:01 PM, luke.leighton <luke.leighton at gmail.com> wrote:
> right, i just powered up one of the MEBs after shorting D1, i also
> used a USB-to-power conversion cable in order to guarantee *exactly*
> 5.0v input, fired it up and the USB host works perfectly.  i'm just
> doing a recompile now to find out if ethernet works.

 done, modprobe sun7i_wemac, enabled debug info, found it's scanning
and finding the RTL8201 at the correct address (seeing "scan the phy
adrr" - somebody can't spell... :) did "ifconfig eth0 up", then "ip
link" aaand... it's UP but "NO-CARRIER":

11: eth0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc
pfifo_fast state DOWN mode DEFAULT qlen 1000
    link/ether ce:1c:71:71:10:5d brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

i'm seeing a pretty random mac address, there was supposed to be...
hmm, i think i asked for the eeprom to be left off, that would explain
that...

clues anyone?

yeees it's plugged into a huuub :)  nooo, i don't know if the wires
are the right way rouuuund... :)

l.