[Arm-netbook] eoma68-a20 ethernet testing

[luke.leighton]

On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 9:02 PM, Ryan Mullen <rmmullen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 3:41 PM, luke.leighton <luke.leighton at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  ok... well... do you happen to have an ethernet socket with a
>> transformer kicking around?  and if so would you be happy to wire it
>> up and poke it (oo-er) up the little holes of the eoma68 connector?
>> it's 6 wires... hang on let me check.... tx+/-, rx+/-, feedback-point
>> and GND  yeah 6 wires.
>
> I have some Pulse J3011G21DNLT which have integrated magnetics I could
> try, though I won't get to it until tomorrow. I'm still a little foggy
> on what I need to do on the software end of things as well. Will the
> default installation of whatever's on there be sufficient?

 not in the slightest.  wits tech put the absolute minimum on it in
order to check that the nand, processor and ram work.  anything else
as far as they're concerned appears to be a bonus.

> Is there
> any way I can get a shell on it?

 i'd recommend using debian - the pieces are here:
 http://rhombus-tech.net/allwinner_a10/boot/

l.