On 01/05/2017 08:52 AM, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > 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 used https://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/armhf/daily/netboot/SD-card-images/ as of 2016-11-20. According to https://packages.qa.debian.org/l/linux-signed/news/20161116T173404Z.html on Debian was using Kernel 4.8 since 2016-11-16. > > 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? I tried both, none worked. > > 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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