Unable to boot Pi successfully with ethernet interface configured

[Sevan / Venture37]

On 28/09/2012 17:35, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've just fixed some issues in the if_smsc.c, so you might want to "svn up"
> again. Seems like ethernet packets received carry 4 bytes extra.
>
> Regarding performance, there are actions we can do. Right now I just want a
> stable driver. I measured around 10MBit in each direction on ethernet and my
> USB memory stick was giving me 0.5 MBytes/second (Read). And the CPU usage is
> now around 0.8% when the USB stack is idle. The reason for this slowness is
> not USB itself, but that we are doing much of the USB protocol in software.
>
> I've also tested that FULL/LOW speed devices should work, like mouse and
> keyboard and USB serial port adapters.
>
> Feel free to keep us updated what you are doing with FreeBSD on your Raspberry
> PI and if you see more USB related problems:-)
>
> --HPS

Oh cool, will report back once I've had a chance to play tonight.
Btw, I'm using a USB > TTL adapter connected to the GPIO pins which 
gives me output from the kernel on booting but I'd like to be able to 
login, looking at /etc/ttys ttyv0 is switched on by default, I've 
modified it to std.115200 & I see the login prompt now but the console 
locks up & wont take any input.


Sevan