dreamplug: setting ethernet address by hand, getting pkgng to work, wireless?

[Johan Henselmans]

OK, I am a step further in getting CURRENT working on the Dreamplug. I have recompiled the CURRENT tree yesterday, more or less merging the 
august mailinglist settings with the stuff from Jesse White. 

I still do not get the hardware ethernet addresses from the machine (it still reports 00:00:00:00:00:00), so I decided to set them manually in /etc/start_if.mge0:

dramplug-bsd:~ # cat /etc/start_if.mge0
ifconfig mge0  ether f0:ad:4e:01:44:46 

The address got picked up if this was a static address in the dhcp server, not if it was a dynamic ip address. 

But I do have internet on the dreamplug now. 

I then tried to find out if pkgng would work:
the command:
pkg add emacs
resulted in:
The package management tool is not yet installed on your system.
Do you want to fetch and install it now? [y/N]: y
Bootstrapping pkg please wait
pkg: Error fetching http://pkgbeta.FreeBSD.org/freebsd:10:arm:32:el:oabi:softfp/latest/Latest/pkg.txz: Not Found

Can anyone tell me what the status is of pkgng for arm, and how I can set it to a comprehensible setting?

Last question is that I do not see the wireless network interface. Is that normal, or should I do some magic incantation?


Johan Henselmans
johan at netsense.nl