There are patches available that add configuration dialog etc, mostly all originated by yi sun of the android-x86 project.
They never applied out of the box for me, but were straightforward enough to patch manually. Do a bit of research, and you'll be good to go with full blown EthernetService,EthernetManager,EthernetConfiguration etc Ronnyek On Monday, May 21, 2012 6:14:27 PM UTC-7, CTurner wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have a FreeARM Tiny210 development device running Android 4.0.3. The > Android system has ethernet support, and came prepackaged with an Ethernet > Settings application. The problem I'm having is that on boot, the device > assigns a static IP which doesn't play nice with the network my application > needs to use, so I have to manually go into the Ethernet Settings app. The > app does remember that I want to use DHCP, so every time I go into it it > automatically configures the settings correctly. > > What I would like to know is how can I a) get my own app to reset ethernet > to use DHCP on start-up, or b) change some setting on the OS so that on > boot it selects DHCP. > > Any thoughts on what I should be looking for? > Thanks. > -- unsubscribe: android-porting+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting
