Yeah, I've noticed that recent Angstrom builds have been missing an
interfaces file, but if you create a proper one, networking comes up with
no problems. A simple version of that file is this:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
On Tuesday, February 11, 2014 6:34:27 PM UTC-8, hacktorious wrote:
>
> This doesn't look good:
>
> ifup eth0
> ifup: can't open '/etc/network/interfaces': No such file or directory
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 9:13 PM, Scott Macri <scott...@gmail.com<javascript:>
> > wrote:
>
>> "Lets try this again -->
>> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.beagleboard.user/27473/match=beaglebone+rev+a4+ethernet+issue
>> "
>>
>>
>> No luck with this.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 9:16 AM, Scott Force <scooby...@gmail.com<javascript:>
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> Lets try this again -->
>>> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.beagleboard.user/27473/match=beaglebone+rev+a4+ethernet+issue
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 7 February 2014 17:05, Scott Macri <scott...@gmail.com
>>> <javascript:>>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Scott,
>>>>
>>>> That link gives me a missing article error.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 9:14 AM, Scott Force
>>>> <scooby...@gmail.com<javascript:>
>>>> > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> This sounds like an issue that some other people are having. Take a
>>>>> look at the postings with a subject of "BeagleBone Rev. A4 ethernet
>>>>> issue<http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?message_id=e55f5117%2de59e%2d4d4e%2d9673%2d5d416bc6a1c4%5f%5f32795.8999936984%241327625928%24gmane%24org%40c6g2000vbk.googlegroups.com>
>>>>> "
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Friday, 7 February 2014 08:55:53 UTC-5, sels...@gmail.com wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 07/02/14 02:51, hacktorious wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> > Why on earth is my BBB obtaining an ip from an external source when
>>>>>> > connected via eth0???
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It's not. It's providing it's own address. You likely want it to get
>>>>>> an
>>>>>> address from an external source - the DHCP server on your router..
>>>>>>
>>>>>> > Internally dhcp is distributing 192.168 something, but the BBB is
>>>>>> getting
>>>>>> > 169. something. I'm not able to get internet access from the BBB,
>>>>>> but if I
>>>>>> > visit the ip address I can see my BBB's website........ WTF?????
>>>>>> This is
>>>>>> > total insanity!!!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 169.254.x.x are IPv4 link-local autoconfigured addresses. i.e. the
>>>>>> BBB
>>>>>> didn't get a DHCP response and picked a random 169.254.x.x address
>>>>>> itself
>>>>>> instead.
>>>>>> It should still broadcast for DHCP, so if your DHCP server ever
>>>>>> starts
>>>>>> handing out addresses it should pick one up and start working.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> See http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3927 for an explanation of IPv4
>>>>>> link local
>>>>>> addresses.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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