On 2017-01-04, Ben Hutchings wrote: >> I want to install Debian Stretch on my Lamobo R1 using the network >> installer. >> >> It is unable to connect to the DHCP server. >> >> Please, add the b53 module to the kernel. >> >> CONFIG_B53=y >> CONFIG_B53_SPI_DRIVER=y > > I think we already enabled the necessary options: > > * [armhf] dsa: Enable drivers for Lamobo R1 (aka BPi-R1): B53, > B53_MDIO_DRIVER as modules (Closes: #836231, thanks to Vagrant Cascadian) > > From the device tree, it seems pretty clear that we do want > B53_MDIO_DRIVER and not B53_SPI_DRIVER. Are you sure the installer > version you used had a verison 4.8 kernel, not 4.7?
I had very mixed luck with the switch driver with 4.7.x and 4.8.x, but ethernet generally worked ok. With 4.9.x, I was able to get all ports working well. Were you plugging into the WAN port, or one of the switch ports? Is the b53 module listed in nic-modules udeb? I don't see mention of it at a quick glance, or is it pulled in with some globbing? live well, vagrant p.s. I've haven't been tracking the udebs as much lately, tired of playing whack-a-mole with the exact right modules in the exact right udeb... instead I've been manually appending all the drivers into the initrd as an additional cpio archive...
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