Control: tag -1 - moreinfo On Wed, 2017-01-04 at 23:52 -0800, 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 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? Oh, good point, we don't include it because it's under drivers/net/dsa/ and not drivers/net/ethernet/. I'll fix that. Ben. > 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... -- Ben Hutchings In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
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