[fedora-arm] Fedora-Minimal-armhfp-21-20140730-sda.raw.xz on Cubieboard 2 - problems with ethernet

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 07/31/2014 09:22 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> I believe the problem is with the internal ethernet.  I attached an old USB Realtek ethernet adapter I have and the following occured:
> 
> 
> [18306.819334] rtl8150 2-1:1.0: eth1: rtl8150 is detected
> [18306.830541] usbcore: registered new interface driver rtl8150
> [18307.151989] net eth1: eth1: allmulti set
> [18307.156660] net eth1: eth1: allmulti set
> 
> Then I plugged a cable in (that at first kept popping out as the tab is broken on it):
> 
> [18459.380425] net eth1: eth1: allmulti set
> [18460.881679] net eth1: eth1: allmulti set
> [18466.198143] net eth1: eth1: allmulti set
> [18466.207443] net eth1: eth1: allmulti set
> [18471.231729] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth1: link becomes ready
> [18471.238275] net eth1: eth1: allmulti set
> [18471.278214] net eth1: eth1: allmulti set
> [18472.731966] net eth1: eth1: allmulti set
> 
> 
> #ip addr show
> 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default
>     link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
>     inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
>        valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
>     inet6 ::1/128 scope host
>        valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
> 2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP group default qlen 1000
>     link/ether ce:52:c8:ae:9a:66 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
> 3: eth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP group default qlen 1000
>     link/ether 00:e0:4c:03:52:57 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
>     inet 208.83.67.142/29 brd 208.83.67.143 scope global dynamic eth1
>        valid_lft 86394sec preferred_lft 86394sec
>     inet6 2607:f4b8:3:13:2e0:4cff:fe03:5257/64 scope global noprefixroute dynamic
>        valid_lft 2592002sec preferred_lft 604802sec
>     inet6 fe80::2e0:4cff:fe03:5257/64 scope link
>        valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
> 
> # ping 208.83.67.148
> PING 208.83.67.148 (208.83.67.148) 56(84) bytes of data.
> 64 bytes from 208.83.67.148: icmp_seq=1 ttl=63 time=3.56 ms
> 64 bytes from 208.83.67.148: icmp_seq=2 ttl=63 time=4.33 ms
> 
> 
> So you can see that the Realtek is working, but the internal Cubieboard ethernet is not.  This ethernet is working in both the F19 and F20 remixes. Its MAC addr is local scope.
> 
> Now that a connection is up I can install a few things to try...

Networkmanager will not automatically activate onboard nics
(for security) reasons, where as it will activate hotplugged ones.

To activate the onboard nic do:

nmcli c add type 802-3-ethernet ifname eth0

And from then on nm will automatically activate the nic onboot.

Regards,

Hans