Re: 4430SDP boot failure

Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-01-07T18:56:01Z

On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 11:59:07PM +0530, Santosh Shilimkar wrote:
> > ks8851 spi1.0: message enable is 0
> > ks8851 spi1.0: eth0: revision 0, MAC 1a:6a:b1:02:1d:90, IRQ 194
> > IP-Config: Got DHCP answer from 0.0.0.0, my address is 192.168.0.144
> > IP-Config: Complete:
> > device=eth0, addr=192.168.0.144, mask=255.255.255.0,
> > gw=192.168.0.1,
> > host=192.168.0.144, domain=arm.linux.org.uk, nis-domain=(none),
> > bootserver=0.0.0.0, rootserver=0.0.0.0, rootpath=
> >
> > but the board doesn't respond to that IP address. Meanwhile the
> > DHCP
> > server shows:
> >
> > DHCPDISCOVER from 1a:6a:b1:02:1d:90 via eth0
> >
> > in its log, and the ethernet address appears to be random for each
> > boot.
> > Obviously, as I can't log into the board via any means, it's nigh on
> > impossible to work out what's actually going on.
>
> DHCP seems to work for me without any issues.

The board now has an ethernet address of 1E:89:8E:DA:80:7C - it
seems to be intentionally random which isn't particularly nice.
At least it's intentionally random and not some undefined region of
memory being poked in there...