[nycbug-talk] beaglebone up after trials and tribulation

[George Neville-Neil]

On Dec 19, 2012, at 02:14 , Brett Wynkoop <nycbug at wynn.com> wrote:

> Greeting-
> 
> Well I finally got my arm world built.  It took replacing the x86 box I
> was trying to build on with one that did not have hardware issues and
> could stay up through the build process.
> 
> wynkoop at beaglebone:~ % uname -a
> FreeBSD beaglebone 10.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT #0: Mon Dec 17
> 05:50:03 EST 2012
> root at prd6.wynn.com:/usr/obj/arm.armv6/export/home/wynkoop/freebsd-beaglebone-master/freebsd-src/sys/BEAGLEBONE
> arm wynkoop at beaglebone:~ % 
> 
> There seem to be some small glitches, like the network does not like to
> work at 10baseT and it hiccups at 100baseTX, but I am running so now it
> is time to really start playing with it!  Tomorrow will see me putting
> some USB storage on the device and building some ports.
> 

BTW There are some  known issues with BeagleBone and ethernet, so look here first
and see if your BB is one that needs you to cut a trace.

http://circuitco.com/support/index.php?title=BeagleBone

Search for "R219" and make absolutely sure that you have the board
with the issue.

That being said there are definitely issues that a bunch of us are trying
to address in the cpsw driver, so, bug reports etc. are most welcome.

Best,
George