There's been a change to the bootloader.. the following text was from a message that came across the developer mailing list back in April.
*>As this looks like it's becoming a Frequently Asked Question, I'll send >this note to a wider audience. Please forgive me if this is obvious to >most of the folks on this list. >After flashing or upgrading distros or bootloaders, some folks have been >noticing that their "usb0" network interface on the *host* side fails to >appear when the Freerunner is plugged into the USB port. >Alert users have noticed that it didn't really fail to appear, rather it >changed name from "usb0" to "eth1" (or "eth2", etc). >What's happening here is that certain bootloaders and certain distros >have begun to use the official USB mac address assigned by Openmoko to >the Freerunner, instead of letting the kernel generate a random address >in the locally-assigned range. Many hosts will respond differently when >they observe the official (static) mac address; instead of creating the >"usb0" interface, they will create and permanently assign an "eth<n>" >interface name to that mac address.* I think there was also an update to the USB Networking page. Lowell On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Robin Paulson <robin.paul...@gmail.com>wrote: > On 2009-06-28, Vikas Saurabh <vikas.saur...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 11:05 AM, jeremy jozwik<jerjoz.for...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > >> hello list. im in dire need of assistance. ive just re-flashed my > >> phone to shr-unstable 20090624 all went well until i tried to do an > >> ssh. turns out my usb0 is not showing up in anyway. > >> > > Try eth0. Recent kernels(I guess freerunner's driver) have started > > registering the device properly and hence it shows up as a network > > interface > > i doubt it will be eth0. more likely eth2 or something later > > run ifconfig to find out > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community >
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