Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 09:18:40 -0800 From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> To: Johan Henselmans <johan@netsense.nl> Cc: "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: dreamplug: setting ethernet address by hand, getting pkgng to work, wireless? Message-ID: <CAJ-Vmon7bGmpEOJiHRE0%2BX4=02SGTVUZYSPVteb9vSYP-tuiHw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <F137417B-EB90-4E32-8BB2-E23C9BDBE28A@netsense.nl> References: <F137417B-EB90-4E32-8BB2-E23C9BDBE28A@netsense.nl>
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There's currently no wireless support for those marvell embedded wifi chips. Someone's going to have to jump on board and help by porting the driver from somewhere and maintaining it. Sorry! Adrian On 14 November 2012 02:56, Johan Henselmans <johan@netsense.nl> wrote: > 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@netsense.nl > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-arm@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-arm > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-arm-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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