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Bug#845075: kernel-image-4.8.0-1-armmp-di: Lamobo R1 cannot access network



On 01/05/2017 08:52 AM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> On 2017-01-04, Ben Hutchings wrote:
>>> I want to install Debian Stretch on my Lamobo R1 using the network
>>> installer.
>>>
>>> It is unable to connect to the DHCP server.
>>>
>>> Please, add the b53 module to the kernel.
>>>
>>> CONFIG_B53=y
>>> CONFIG_B53_SPI_DRIVER=y
>>
>> I think we already enabled the necessary options:
>>
>>   * [armhf] dsa: Enable drivers for Lamobo R1 (aka BPi-R1): B53,
>>     B53_MDIO_DRIVER as modules (Closes: #836231, thanks to Vagrant Cascadian)
>>
>> From the device tree, it seems pretty clear that we do want
>> B53_MDIO_DRIVER and not B53_SPI_DRIVER.  Are you sure the installer
>> version you used had a verison 4.8 kernel, not 4.7?

I used
https://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/armhf/daily/netboot/SD-card-images/
as of 2016-11-20.

According to
https://packages.qa.debian.org/l/linux-signed/news/20161116T173404Z.html
on Debian was using Kernel 4.8 since 2016-11-16.

> 
> I had very mixed luck with the switch driver with 4.7.x and 4.8.x, but
> ethernet generally worked ok. With 4.9.x, I was able to get all ports
> working well.
> 
> Were you plugging into the WAN port, or one of the switch ports?

I tried both, none worked.

> 
> Is the b53 module listed in nic-modules udeb? I don't see mention of it
> at a quick glance, or is it pulled in with some globbing?
> 
> 
> live well,
>   vagrant
> 
> p.s. I've haven't been tracking the udebs as much lately, tired of
> playing whack-a-mole with the exact right modules in the exact right
> udeb... instead I've been manually appending all the drivers into the
> initrd as an additional cpio archive...
> 


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