On Monday 09 December 2013 21:07:45 you wrote: > > On Dec 9, 2013, at 11:40, Remco <re...@d-compu.dyndns.org> wrote: > > > > jordon wrote: > >> Every time I have installed the arm7 port on my BBB, fetched latest, and > >> built, I end up with a device with no network connectivity. Any input > >> on how to build this would be most welcome. An updated snapshot would > >> be welcome as well! > >> > >> Jordon > > > > You may be running into this: > > http://www.openbsd.org/faq/current.html#20131031 > > > > 2013/10/31 - new routing message version > > To convert the route expire time to 64 bit, it was necessary to change > > the routing message structure. Make sure that you boot a new kernel > > before replacing the user land programs. > > A small compatibility layer allows to configure addresses with old > > ifconfig and new kernel. Old route get also works in this setup. Old > > dhclient with new kernel assigns the address but hangs. Make sure to > > reboot your machine sucessfully during transition. > > > > > > I'm experiencing the dhclient hang, after DHCPACK, since I didn't update > > userland (yet). Cancelling (^C) it during boot and statically configuring > > the network interface seems to work though. > > I don't think that's it. After building and installing kernel and userland > from latest source, and rebooting, there is no longer a network device in > ifconfig. The Ethernet device is gone. > > I could try it again this evening, or at least start - it takes a couple > days to build the userland. You're saying reboot after installing new > kernel but before building new userland?
Are you aware that you need to prepare a kernel image with mkuboot (and potentially objcopy as a first step) and copy it to your i partition ? How to do this was posted on the list a while back.
