[SRU] Ethernet library: read from Socket broken

[Christian Lins]

SRU proposal for Arduino in 11.10 (oneiric)

[Impact] When using the ethernet library and the version of gcc-avr in oneiric, the ethernet shield (i.e. ethernet port on an arduino) doesn't work. This is a very heavily used package in Ubuntu, and many of the users have the ethernet shield

[Development fix] Fixed in Debian Experimental, requestsync for precise. They use the same patch as posted here. Upstream has this bug report and pull request, but hasn't applied it yet.

[Stable fix] See below debdiff

[Test case]: requires specific hardware, but just try compiling the sample webserver for arduino and use it, it won't work. I (showard314) don't have the ethernet shield, but this has been reported in the forums for arduino and the proposed fix in PPA form has been confirmed by two users below.

[Regression potential] Patch only affects ethernet library, and it doesn't work now - so it can't get any worse.

original report below:

Using the Ubuntu version of arduino-core and avr-gcc makes it impossible to get the example Arduino Webserver working.

Reading from the Socket returns garbled output.

The Arduino forum has found as solution, which works for me:
http://arduino.cc/forum/index.php/topic,68624.msg523739.html#msg523739

I've attached a patch for /usr/share/arduino/libraries/Ethernet/utility/w5100.h
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ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
Package: arduino 0022+dfsg-4
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=de_DE
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 LC_MESSAGES=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.19-generic 3.0.4
Tags: oneiric
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-01 (31 days ago)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout fuse lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Christian Lins (cli)]

apport information

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[Scott Howard (showard314)]

Thanks, I'll through up a PPA for you to test this fix too (I don't have an ethernet shield) and also push this up to Debian.

[Scott Howard (showard314)]

Here's a ppa that you can test it out. It's for the new beta release and there are bugs related to the beta, but if you can try out the ethernet library (I don't have that shield)

https://launchpad.net/~showard314/+archive/ppa

It's committed to the debian repo. When Arduino releases version 1.0, we'll upload the new version and fix.

[Christian Lins (cli)]

I've tested your arduino-* packages, Scott. Works fine for me, thanks.

Additionally, I've created a pull request for the patch at the upstream arduino project, see https://github.com/arduino/Arduino/pull/42
Perhaps they pull it eventually...

[Heath Naylor (arduinology)]

I would like to verify that this in fact works on Ubuntu 11.10, easy enough fix for a very frustrating problem.

[Scott Howard (showard314)]

debdiff for SRU

[Scott Howard (showard314)]

Thanks for your comments!

I just filed for this to get fixed in an update to Oneiric. This will be updated to oneiric-proposed and will require your verification. The package won't be able to be updated in oneiric unless we get two users confirming that the fix works. Since I don't have an ethernet shield, we'll be relying on your feedback to get this fixed for everyone else.

Thank you again!

[Stéphane Graber (stgraber)]

Uploaded to Oneiric.

Precise will be fixed once the new arduino packages hits experimental and someone asks for a sync.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Hello Christian, or anyone else affected,

Accepted arduino into oneiric-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

[Christian Lins (cli)]

I've tested the patched version from oneric-proposed and can confirm that it works fine with the Arduino Ethernet board. Thanks! :)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package arduino - 0022+dfsg-4ubuntu0.1

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arduino (0022+dfsg-4ubuntu0.1) oneiric-proposed; urgency=low

  * Fixed a bug in arduino-core that prevented the ethernet shield from
    working with gcc-avr 4.5.3 (LP: #865266)
 -- Scott Howard <email address hidden> Wed, 19 Oct 2011 10:22:58 -0400