On Thu, 22 Oct 2009, Koen Kooi wrote: > On 22-10-09 10:52, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > On Thu, 22 Oct 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 21 Oct 2009, Koen Kooi wrote: > > > > > > > Make sure you have an up to date uboot and kernel. > > > > > > would the downloadable images here be sufficient? > > > > > > http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/demo/beagleboard/ > > > > > > i was using the latest uImage (2.6.29-r44) but i was still using the > > > u-boot that was flashed with my C3 BB. could that have been the > > > problem? > > > > as a followup, i copied the MLO, u-boot.bin and latest uImage files > > from here: > > > > http://www.angstrom-distribution.org/demo/beagleboard/ > > > > to my SD card, power-cycled while pressing the USER button, the system > > booted fully to angstrom, > > What does the u-boot prompt say? If you downloaded u-boot recently > it should say 2009.08. The kernel relies on u-boot setting up the > pinmux, so having a proper uboot (not the ghastly one that comes > with the board by default) is key.
i downloaded the images from here: http://elinux.org/BeagleBoard_Zippy and, using those mlo, u-boot and uImage, and the beagleboard-demo-image rootfs, i now have a working eth0. thanks. this raises a couple more questions, but they're related to the BB itself so i'll take it back to that list. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday ======================================================================== _______________________________________________ Angstrom-distro-users mailing list Angstrom-distro-users@linuxtogo.org http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/angstrom-distro-users
