Excellent! Thank you Brennan. Though this is not exactly what I was looking
for, this will help test build issues, if any. Tomorrow once the patch is
ready for 1883, I may have to bug you again on how to test it by
mounting/unmounting procfs.

Sincerely,
Subhra Sankha Sarkar


On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 10:24 PM Brennan Ashton <bash...@brennanashton.com>
wrote:

> You should be able to use the simulator for testing that if you are using
> Linux. There is Windows and macOS support as well but I am not familiar
> with using it.
>
>
> http://nuttx.apache.org/docs/latest/guides/simulator.html#accessing-the-network
>
> Even without setting up the host network side you should be able to verify
> your fix.
>
> --Brennan
>
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2020, 9:48 AM Subhra Sankha Sarkar <rurtle.co...@gmail.com
> >
> wrote:
>
> > Thank you Alan and Brennan for welcoming me to the community and for your
> > prompt response. Sure, I shall get in touch with Petro to understand the
> > current state of development of the Ethernet driver on BBB and if I can
> > help in any way.
> >
> > I specifically asked for ifconfig because I wanted to test my changes for
> > https://github.com/apache/incubator-nuttx/issues/1883. Is there any
> other
> > way to build and/or test my changes for the issue # 1883 as I don't have
> > necessary hardware platform(s)?
> >
> > Sincerely,
> > Subhra Sankha Sarkar
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 9:38 PM Alan Carvalho de Assis <
> acas...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Subhra,
> > >
> > > Welcome to the NuttX community!
> > >
> > > Unfortunately we selected a board that doesn't have Ethernet driver,
> > > see inside this directory: nuttx/arch/arm/src/am335x/ and you will
> > > realize which peripherals are supported to this board.
> > >
> > > I'm CC Mr. Petro, he is the guy who ported NuttX to BBB, maybe he say
> > > if there are plans to add Ethernet.
> > >
> > > If you want a board with Ethernet support, you can figure out it
> > > searching for "netnsh" configuration files inside nuttx/boards/
> > > directory.
> > >
> > > BR,
> > >
> > > Alan
> > >
> > > On 10/26/20, Subhra Sankha Sarkar <rurtle.co...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Hello all,
> > > >
> > > > I just got started with NuttX and was able to build (using the
> default
> > > > beaglebone-black:nsh configuration) & run the OS on my Beaglebone
> Black
> > > > (BBB). However, when I checked for the list of commands available on
> > it,
> > > I
> > > > am only seeing a limited subset of what NuttX offers.
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > > NuttShell (NSH) NuttX-9.1.0
> > > > nsh> ?
> > > > help usage:  help [-v] [<cmd>]
> > > >
> > > >   .         cat       echo      hexdump   mkfatfs   mw        source
> > > >  umount
> > > >   [         cp        exec      kill      mkrd      rm        test
> > > >  unset
> > > >   ?         cmp       exit      ls        mh        rmdir     time
> > > >  usleep
> > > >   basename  dirname   false     mb        mount     set       true
> > > xd
> > > >
> > > >   break     dd        help      mkdir     mv        sleep     uname
> > > >
> > > > Builtin Apps:
> > > >   sh   nsh
> > > > nsh>
> > > >
> > >
> >
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > >
> > > > In particular, I am interested in the ifconfig command. However, just
> > > > setting CONFIG_NET=y and CONFIG_FS_PROCFS=y (per nshlib README)
> results
> > > in
> > > > build failure. Obviously, I'll have to enable a few other CONFIG
> > options
> > > > through Kconfig. The board specific README file didn't provide much
> > > detail
> > > > on this matter.
> > > >
> > > > Could someone please provide me with some pointers or a list of
> configs
> > > to
> > > > enable so I can run the ifconfig (or other networking commands) on my
> > > BBB?
> > > >
> > > > Thank you in advance.
> > > >
> > > > Sincerely,
> > > > Subhra Sankha Sarkar
> > > >
> > >
> >
>

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