Re: Each boot on my Cubietruck, and different MACaddr

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This is NOT a question about Redsleeve. Rather about the F19 uboot that I use with RSEL. It would impact any F19 Cubietruck system, and as Hans has pointed out any F20 Cubietruck system.

So perhaps I wandered a bit in my missive. More a report on how things kind of work well enough to use. Eventhough the interface name changes with each reboot, as the MACaddr changes, the system is still able to apply the ifcfg-eth0 parameters to the interface. So it works until we have F21 where Hans is doing it better. Which I need to get back into testing; next week.

And I got good help on the RSEL list for RSEL issues. And the Centos list for regular Centos stuff, and EPEL, and... Well we are all on lots of lists.

take care.  Last days of Holiday coming up, the back at it.

On 10/14/2014 05:51 PM, Peter Robinson wrote:
Hi Robert,

As I've mentioned before this is not the location to get support on
RedSleeve6. You need to go and speak to them about that.

Using a Fedora kernel doesn't make it Fedora.

Peter

On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 8:05 PM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Just an update on this.  I am building a mailserver on Cubietruck.

I am using RedSleeve6, using the F19 uboot and device and module files:

http://cdn.opensxce.org/redsleeve/el6/cubieboard2/README

About the only thing not working as I wish is the ethernet that gets a new
MACaddr at each boot.  Right now I am at eth3, as each boot, another entry
is made to:

/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules

with the new MACaddr and the next ethn name.  I see the message at boot that
eth0 cannot be found, but fortunately my

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0

Gets applied to the current name and I get the MACaddr I want and thus the
IPv6 suffix of choice (to go with the RA prefix).

I will be putting this server into production next week; switching even my
dozen users over to a new server (and POP/IMAP software!) will be a bit
challenging.

Then, perhaps, I can get back to F21 testing.  And save the Samba server
conversion for later.


On 09/09/2014 08:56 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:

On 09/09/2014 07:12 PM, Hans de Goede wrote:
Hi,

On 09/09/2014 10:44 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
OK.  back doing some testing.  So far all with F19.

On 09/09/2014 07:02 AM, Hans de Goede wrote:
Hi,

On 09/09/2014 12:28 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
On 09/09/2014 02:41 AM, Hans de Goede wrote:
Hi,

On 09/09/2014 07:40 AM, Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote:
W dniu 09.09.2014 o 04:51, Robert Moskowitz pisze:
Read Hans de Goede's post on the F19 and the Allwinner (Cubie) back
on
12/26/2013.  He supposedly uses the SID for a consistant local
scope
MACaddr.  I Do get that on my Cubieboard2, but not on my
Cubietruck.
Hans also told that there was a bunch of Cubie* with pre-production
cpus
which lacked serial number.
AFAIK only cubieboard2 and olinuxino-a20-micro suffer from this, the
cubietruck is fine. On machines with an all 0 sid this indeed does
not
work.
My SIX Cubieboard2 all are fine with a consistant MAC address.
Good, then later runs of the cubieboard2 have gotten a proper SID, that
is good.

My one Cubietruck keeps coming up with the unique MACaddr.  Exact
opposite of what you are reporting.
Which version of Fedora are you running on your Cubietruck ?

With the respin images the kernel takes care of getting the MAC from
the SID,
with the official F-21 images, u-boot needs to do this, and the u-boot
included
is (not yet) new enough.

Perhaps there is a rev difference in the shipped nand?  In all cases,
I never did anything with the nand image, but went right to the SDcard
image.  I just don't get how to do the nand poking to get something working
from it.
The SID is in the SoC, it has nothing to do with the nand.

Is there any test I can run on my CT?
You can dump the sid by hooking up a serial console, and then pressing
a
key to interrupt u-boot, then do:

md 1c23800 4

To get the SID contents, see here for example SID-s :

http://linux-sunxi.org/SID_Register_Guide

If this is non-0 on your cubietruck, then you should get a consistent
MAC
with the respin images,
Well, I am not.  For the Cubietruck.  Here is the SID fromthe CT and
different MACaddr from a series of boots from the F19 image:

md 1c23800 4

01c23800: 165166c1 80485172 49514848 0881e2d7 .fQ.rQH.HHQI....

ea:99:af:e5:2f:5b

ea:22:02:c6:83:c8

fe:1d:9a:25:3b:48

Then I switch over to a Cubieboard2, also with F19:

md 1c23800 4
01c23800: 165166c4 80485072 56484848 0382c153 .fQ.rPH.HHHVS...

02:c4:03:82:c1:53


I notice with the C2, the MAC is the last word of the SID. But for the
CT, I cannot figure it out at all.
Ah right, I remember now the kernel code to use the SID for the MAC in
F-19 is
part of the emac driver, and the A20 uses the gmac driver, that is why it
is
not working on the cubietruck with F-19.

I thought both are A20 boards.   Though the C2 has the 100Mb ethernet, and
the CT the 1Gb.

I have a bit of other testing to do (VLAN setup), then I will switch to
F21 and see if I can get the current uboot for the CT working.
Yes F-21 + latest u-boot should work.

Basically, this means no fancy networking stuff on the truck with old
remixes.  :)

I can work with that.  I only have the one CT, and it is destined as a
replacement server.

Thanks for all your work.  Next to sort out the vlanning problem...


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