vexpress: Ethernet fails to come up

[Paul Larson]

http://snapshots.linaro.org/precise/hwpacks/vexpress/63/
http://snapshots.linaro.org/precise/images/ubuntu-desktop/179/

root@linaro-ubuntu-desktop:~# ifconfig -a
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

sit0 Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
          NOARP MTU:1480 Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

Attaching the full boot log, but something that jumped out at Ryan when he was helping me look at this was:
[ 4.656061] smsc911x: Driver version 2008-10-21
[ 4.670062] smsc911x smsc911x: Failed to get supply 'vdd33a': -517
[ 4.688776] smsc911x smsc911x: (unregistered net_device): couldn't get regulators -517
[ 4.712903] platform smsc911x: Driver smsc911x requests probe deferral

[Tixy (Jon Medhurst) (tixy)]

This is due to bug 1009389

[Tixy (Jon Medhurst) (tixy)]

This bug should be fixed by fixing bug 1009389

[Botao (botao-sun)]

Observed on hardware pack:

http://snapshots.linaro.org/precise/hwpacks/vexpress/125/hwpack_linaro-vexpress_20120624-125_armhf_supported.tar.gz

with ubuntu rootfs image:

http://snapshots.linaro.org/precise/images/ubuntu-desktop/243/linaro-precise-ubuntu-desktop-20120624-243.tar.gz

No eth0 interface at all:

root@linaro-ubuntu-desktop:~# ifconfig -a
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

sit0 Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
          NOARP MTU:1480 Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

[Ricardo Salveti (rsalveti)]

This is fixed with 12.06 hwpack.