Talk:USB ethernet adaptors: Difference between revisions
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==need easy/sane instructions== |
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I just stumbled through this, probably in a rather bad way. (feeling impatient and tired) As I remember it: |
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First I mess around with wireless on my main system. I don't have any nice GUI tools, and I've never had anything else to talk to, so this is some serious man page reading. At some point I notice that the XO might be LACKING THE FIRMWARE for one of the main features, and the recent firmware/system images appear to be broken according to tinderbox. There's no changelog for that anyway. |
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So I manage to dig up a pair of USB ethernet devices and an ethernet switch with yet another wall wart. My XO won't be doing the screen rotation thing or even moving around the room. |
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On my main system, I enable a dhcp server. (which would be a serious pain to set up, but it was previously configured for a VoIP adapter) |
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Over on the XO, I give the web browser a try. It seems that each failure requires that I restart the browser, all done via a very jumpy and inaccurate mouse. |
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Nope. So I start tcpdump on my main machine and the developer console on the XO. |
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The XO doesn't do DHCP. Nice. What then followed was a long series of "ip" commands, mostly with syntax errors. The easy and familiar "ifconfig" and "route" commands are gone. I had to add an IP address and routes. Then I had to remove IPv6 junk and some randomly-selected bogus IP address that the XO had chosen. That got me pinging the IP of my main system. Finally I had to modify /etc/resolv.conf to contain something other that the 1-line warning against editing the file. My "chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf" command failed because jffs2 is lame, so I'll be editing that file repeatedly. |
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All this is being done on a keyboard that is too small for my 7-year-old. |
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So I got it going, on a temporary basis, but it wasn't fun. I could write a script. Yuck. I hope we get some better documentation soon. Not all of us like to play sysadmin, even if we're able to do so. I'd rather be hacking on Tux Paint actually. |
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[[User:AlbertCahalan|AlbertCahalan]] 02:20, 8 March 2007 (EST) |
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