Talk:USB ethernet adaptors
need easy/sane instructions
I just stumbled through this, probably in a rather bad way. (feeling impatient and tired) As I remember it:
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.
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.
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)
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.
Nope. So I start tcpdump on my main machine and the developer console on the XO.
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.
All this is being done on a keyboard that is too small for my 7-year-old.
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.
AlbertCahalan 02:20, 8 March 2007 (EST)
