Hello Guys,
I have bought a Banana Pi R1 board with a plan to use it as my gateway server/router and to replace a full-size PC which was doing the job until now . It has , beside the regular banana hardware , a SATA interface and most importantly 5 Ethernet ports (1 wan connection and 4 LAN connections) . My plan is to make it a router/firewall server as well as ods-and-ends,print,http,file etc... machine . I was pleased to see that Fedora 21 supports banana pi straight out of the box , so I rushed out and installed the minimal version . All was good as far as getting the banana r1 booted and talking , however one crucial part does not work at the moment . And that is wired networking , it seems that the drivers are not working or are missing. I have been able to get it connected via an old USB-Ethernet adapter which was recognised immediately. Can you please help in getting the networking working , I can assist in providing prints , compiling software . Any assistance is much appreciated .
Best Regards Milorad
I have bought a Banana Pi R1 board with a plan to use it as my gateway server/router and to replace a full-size PC which was doing the job until now . It has , beside the regular banana hardware , a SATA interface and most importantly 5 Ethernet ports (1 wan connection and 4 LAN connections) . My plan is to make it a router/firewall server as well as ods-and-ends,print,http,file etc... machine . I was pleased to see that Fedora 21 supports banana pi straight out of the box , so I rushed out and installed the minimal version . All was good as far as getting the banana r1 booted and talking , however one crucial part does not work at the moment . And that is wired networking , it seems that the drivers are not working or are missing. I have been able to get it connected via an old USB-Ethernet adapter which was recognised immediately. Can you please help in getting the networking working , I can assist in providing prints , compiling software . Any assistance is much appreciated .
So the original Banana Pi also has a SATA port, the only real difference is the ethernet.
The ethernet isn't really 5 ethernet ports at all. It's a single gigabit ethernet port on the ARM device attached to a 6 port ethernet switch which is then labelled as 4 LAN, 1 WAN with the 6th port being the port attached to the actual ARM SoC Gig ethernet port.
How are you booting it? Are you following the instructions for the Banana Pi and using the Banana Pi device tree? If so I suspect you can see the single ethernet interface using ethtool but not actually get connectivity. I'm not sure how the on board switch is controlled, it's likely by i2c or GPIO of some sort which will be used to tell it to power up and actually to configure VLANs etc to get the LAN/WAN specific config.
Peter
Hi,
On 01-01-15 11:47, Peter Robinson wrote:
I have bought a Banana Pi R1 board with a plan to use it as my gateway server/router and to replace a full-size PC which was doing the job until now . It has , beside the regular banana hardware , a SATA interface and most importantly 5 Ethernet ports (1 wan connection and 4 LAN connections) . My plan is to make it a router/firewall server as well as ods-and-ends,print,http,file etc... machine . I was pleased to see that Fedora 21 supports banana pi straight out of the box , so I rushed out and installed the minimal version . All was good as far as getting the banana r1 booted and talking , however one crucial part does not work at the moment . And that is wired networking , it seems that the drivers are not working or are missing. I have been able to get it connected via an old USB-Ethernet adapter which was recognised immediately. Can you please help in getting the networking working , I can assist in providing prints , compiling software . Any assistance is much appreciated .
So the original Banana Pi also has a SATA port, the only real difference is the ethernet.
The ethernet isn't really 5 ethernet ports at all. It's a single gigabit ethernet port on the ARM device attached to a 6 port ethernet switch which is then labelled as 4 LAN, 1 WAN with the 6th port being the port attached to the actual ARM SoC Gig ethernet port.
That is unfortunately not entirely accurate, what we've here is a MAC which needs an external phy, connected directly to an ethernet switch which takes a RGMII input as its upstream port. So we do not have ethernet going over the PCB to the switch, but rather a protocol which is normally spoken between a MAC and a phy, but now is used between a MAC and a switch. In order for this to work we need a phy driver for the switch, specifically this driver:
http://lwn.net/Articles/571390/
But that adds a new switch config API, which seems to have never gotten anything, and the openwrt guys have "solved" this by just carrying this driver with their non upstreamed API in their own kernels.
So you could try building your own kernel with this driver added, or switch to one of the openwrt images for the board, short of that there is no way to get this to work for now.
Regards,
Hans
On 01/01/2015 07:30 AM, Hans de Goede wrote:
Hi,
On 01-01-15 11:47, Peter Robinson wrote:
I have bought a Banana Pi R1 board with a plan to use it as my gateway server/router and to replace a full-size PC which was doing the job until now . It has , beside the regular banana hardware , a SATA interface and most importantly 5 Ethernet ports (1 wan connection and 4 LAN connections) . My plan is to make it a router/firewall server as well as ods-and-ends,print,http,file etc... machine . I was pleased to see that Fedora 21 supports banana pi straight out of the box , so I rushed out and installed the minimal version . All was good as far as getting the banana r1 booted and talking , however one crucial part does not work at the moment . And that is wired networking , it seems that the drivers are not working or are missing. I have been able to get it connected via an old USB-Ethernet adapter which was recognised immediately. Can you please help in getting the networking working , I can assist in providing prints , compiling software . Any assistance is much appreciated .
So the original Banana Pi also has a SATA port, the only real difference is the ethernet.
The ethernet isn't really 5 ethernet ports at all. It's a single gigabit ethernet port on the ARM device attached to a 6 port ethernet switch which is then labelled as 4 LAN, 1 WAN with the 6th port being the port attached to the actual ARM SoC Gig ethernet port.
That is unfortunately not entirely accurate, what we've here is a MAC which needs an external phy, connected directly to an ethernet switch which takes a RGMII input as its upstream port. So we do not have ethernet going over the PCB to the switch, but rather a protocol which is normally spoken between a MAC and a phy, but now is used between a MAC and a switch. In order for this to work we need a phy driver for the switch, specifically this driver:
http://lwn.net/Articles/571390/
But that adds a new switch config API, which seems to have never gotten anything, and the openwrt guys have "solved" this by just carrying this driver with their non upstreamed API in their own kernels.
So you could try building your own kernel with this driver added, or switch to one of the openwrt images for the board, short of that there is no way to get this to work for now.
The operative words here is 'for now'. Hans, I know you are chipping away at all of the features, adding them one by one. This is something I have wanted for over a year; is there any idea on this support? F22? F23?
Tommorrow is my last day with my day job, as my employer has eliminated my group and a move to another group really meant a move which I won't do. So Monday I start doing consulting work and see if there are any fulltime jobs that match my interests. A good severance package gives me time. But the reason I mention this, is one of my potential business plans includes a highly capable, low power/size CPE device. Multiple LAN ports with Fedora today, Centos tomorrow is on my list.
Hi,
On 01-01-15 14:50, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
On 01/01/2015 07:30 AM, Hans de Goede wrote:
Hi,
On 01-01-15 11:47, Peter Robinson wrote:
I have bought a Banana Pi R1 board with a plan to use it as my gateway server/router and to replace a full-size PC which was doing the job until now . It has , beside the regular banana hardware , a SATA interface and most importantly 5 Ethernet ports (1 wan connection and 4 LAN connections) . My plan is to make it a router/firewall server as well as ods-and-ends,print,http,file etc... machine . I was pleased to see that Fedora 21 supports banana pi straight out of the box , so I rushed out and installed the minimal version . All was good as far as getting the banana r1 booted and talking , however one crucial part does not work at the moment . And that is wired networking , it seems that the drivers are not working or are missing. I have been able to get it connected via an old USB-Ethernet adapter which was recognised immediately. Can you please help in getting the networking working , I can assist in providing prints , compiling software . Any assistance is much appreciated .
So the original Banana Pi also has a SATA port, the only real difference is the ethernet.
The ethernet isn't really 5 ethernet ports at all. It's a single gigabit ethernet port on the ARM device attached to a 6 port ethernet switch which is then labelled as 4 LAN, 1 WAN with the 6th port being the port attached to the actual ARM SoC Gig ethernet port.
That is unfortunately not entirely accurate, what we've here is a MAC which needs an external phy, connected directly to an ethernet switch which takes a RGMII input as its upstream port. So we do not have ethernet going over the PCB to the switch, but rather a protocol which is normally spoken between a MAC and a phy, but now is used between a MAC and a switch. In order for this to work we need a phy driver for the switch, specifically this driver:
http://lwn.net/Articles/571390/
But that adds a new switch config API, which seems to have never gotten anything, and the openwrt guys have "solved" this by just carrying this driver with their non upstreamed API in their own kernels.
So you could try building your own kernel with this driver added, or switch to one of the openwrt images for the board, short of that there is no way to get this to work for now.
The operative words here is 'for now'. Hans, I know you are chipping away at all of the features, adding them one by one. This is something I have wanted for over a year; is there any idea on this support? F22? F23?
Tommorrow is my last day with my day job, as my employer has eliminated my group and a move to another group really meant a move which I won't do. So Monday I start doing consulting work and see if there are any fulltime jobs that match my interests. A good severance package gives me time. But the reason I mention this, is one of my potential business plans includes a highly capable, low power/size CPE device. Multiple LAN ports with Fedora today, Centos tomorrow is on my list.
The problem is that getting this upstream requires getting a kernel API into place for the switch config stuff (follow the link to the patch I gave to get a link to all the discussion), although it seems that most upstream developers think it should be possible to make things work with existing interfaces. Basically this is something which will take a large chunk of someone-s time, and I do not see myself working on this soon.
Regards,
Hans
On 01/01/2015 02:15 AM, mo.ucina wrote:
Hello Guys,
I have bought a Banana Pi R1 board with a plan to use it as my gateway server/router and to replace a full-size PC which was doing the job until now . It has , beside the regular banana hardware , a SATA interface and most importantly 5 Ethernet ports (1 wan connection and 4 LAN connections) . My plan is to make it a router/firewall server as well as ods-and-ends,print,http,file etc... machine . I was pleased to see that Fedora 21 supports banana pi straight out of the box , so I rushed out and installed the minimal version . All was good as far as getting the banana r1 booted and talking , however one crucial part does not work at the moment . And that is wired networking , it seems that the drivers are not working or are missing. I have been able to get it connected via an old USB-Ethernet adapter which was recognised immediately. Can you please help in getting the networking working , I can assist in providing prints , compiling software . Any assistance is much appreciated .
Looking here,
http://www.banana-pi.com/eacp_view.asp?id=64
One thing I note they left out are the mounting holes for the sata drive. Those are pretty standard spacing, and they really could have done that. If you put a 2.5" sata drive into that adapter slot they show, do the drive mounting holes miss the wire lines under the board? That is can you drill your own holes to make up for their lack?
A single USB is definitely a limiter, particularly with no Bluetooth. A hub will be manditory for kydb/mouse/etc, or just put on a bluetooth USB as today those are so small. One item I want to add is an FXS port, and if I build a USB dongle off the openFXS work, where would I connect it? (FXS is for VoIP gateway support).
But thanks for the pointer.
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Robert Moskowitz