Raspberry Pi EABI test image

[Warner Losh]

On Dec 24, 2012, at 10:53 AM, Ian Lepore wrote:

> On Mon, 2012-12-24 at 10:58 -0500, George Mitchell wrote:
>> On 12/23/12 19:55, Andrew Turner wrote:
>>> On Sun, 23 Dec 2012 19:05:48 -0500
>>> George Mitchell <george+freebsd at m5p.com> wrote:
>>> [...]
>>>> Although rc.conf says ue0_config="DHCP"', dhclient doesn't run.  I can
>>>> run it manually, and then everything network-related works.
>>> I've seen this before with other RPi images.
>>> 
>> Changing DHCP to SYNCDHCP "fixes" the issue.  I'll try to see if I can
>> figure out why DHCP doesn't work.
>> 
> 
> To look into why =DHCP doesn't work, look at devd and the devd rules to
> figure out why usb-based interfaces (apparently) aren't being handled.
> The way the rc system works these days, DHCP means "do 'ifconfig up' on
> the interface and let devd launch dhclient in response to that", and
> SYNCDHCP means "the rc system directly invokes dhclient immediately".

Or alternatively, you can look at the early startup state of the ue0 device and look for subtle differences between it and other interfaces.  For a short period of time it may throw some weird error that dhclient isn't coping with.

But check to make sure that there's a rule that's run when it happens.  Since devd has transitioned to the link messages that are independent of device type, I don't think there's a difference there, but you never know.

Finally, you might try it on a laptop, since that's an easy test environment...

Warner