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Pine64 512mb Network Not Working


codykl

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Armbianmonitor:

Ethernet does not appear to be working on the latest versions of Armbian with pine64 512mb model (has only 10/100MBps Eth)

Current Version:  ARMBIAN 5.83 stable Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) 4.19.38-sunxi64

 

- I have tried 2 boards in case its a hardware issue, no go.

- Ethernet works with Armbian Xenial (3.10 legacy kernel)

- The network port shows activity when initially powering up, but when it begins boot lights go out.

- I have tried many older and newer kernels, including the new 5.1.0 dev kernel, with no luck.

- Eth0 show up with command "ip address" but not with "ifconfig"

- When I try running "sudo ethtool eth0" I get errors with "Device or resource busy"

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1 hour ago, codykl said:

including the new 5.10 dev kernel, with no luck.

(You mean 5.1.0 ... :P)

Mine is working, but I have 2GB RAM :

root@pine64:~# ifconfig
eth0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        inet 10.111.111.53  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 10.111.111.255
        inet6 fe80::fe21:f2d3:1f4b:5ead  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20<link>
        ether 02:ba:1b:27:72:df  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 582289  bytes 62839808 (59.9 MiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 10759  bytes 817532 (798.3 KiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0
        device interrupt 32  
root@pine64:~# ethtool eth0
Settings for eth0:
	Supported ports: [ TP MII ]
	Supported link modes:   10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 
	                        100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 
	                        1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full 
	Supported pause frame use: Symmetric Receive-only
	Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
	Advertised link modes:  10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 
	                        100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 
	                        1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full 
	Advertised pause frame use: No
	Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
	Link partner advertised link modes:  10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 
	                                     100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 
	Link partner advertised pause frame use: Symmetric
	Link partner advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
	Speed: 100Mb/s
	Duplex: Full
	Port: MII
	PHYAD: 1
	Transceiver: internal
	Auto-negotiation: on
	Supports Wake-on: d
	Wake-on: d
	Current message level: 0x0000003f (63)
			       drv probe link timer ifdown ifup
	Link detected: yes

 

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yes 5.1.0

 

I suspect it has something to do with difference in the plus and non plus model.

"Network

10/100/1000Mbps Ethernet(PINE A64+ version), 10/100Mbps Ethernet(PINE A64 version)"

https://wiki.pine64.org/index.php/PINE_A64_Main_Page

 

 

root@pine64:~# ethtool eth0
Settings for eth0:
Cannot get device settings: Device or resource busy
Cannot get wake-on-lan settings: Device or resource busy
Cannot get message level: Device or resource busy
Cannot get link status: Device or resource busy
No data available

 

 

 

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These seem related

 

[ 2.206430] dwmac-sun8i 1c30000.ethernet: EMAC reset timeout

[ 2.206554] dwmac-sun8i 1c30000.ethernet: Dropping the link to regulator.6

[ 2.206634] dwmac-sun8i: probe of 1c30000.ethernet failed with error -14

 

[ 9.976240] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready

[ 9.976461] platform 1c30000.ethernet eth0: Could not attach to PHY

[ 9.976471] platform 1c30000.ethernet eth0: stmmac_open: Cannot attach to PHY (error: -19)

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16 minutes ago, codykl said:

This message seems to repeat a few times in the log.

Can you check what "cat /proc/device-tree/model" is giving ?

If it reports "Pine64+" instead of "Pine64", try copying /boot/dtb/allwinner/sun50i-a64-pine64.dtb over /boot/dtb/allwinner/sun50i-a64-pine64-plus.dtb and reboot.

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57 minutes ago, martinayotte said:

Can you check what "cat /proc/device-tree/model" is giving ?

If it reports "Pine64+" instead of "Pine64", try copying /boot/dtb/allwinner/sun50i-a64-pine64.dtb over /boot/dtb/allwinner/sun50i-a64-pine64-plus.dtb and reboot.

 

It does return Pine64+

 

Copied... It works now. Thanks :)

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3 hours ago, codykl said:

Copied... It works now. Thanks :)

This mean that Armbian U-Boot has "fdtfile" hardcoded to /boot/dtb/allwinner/sun50i-a64-pine64-plus.dtb.

Another way to workaround it is to edit /boot/armbianEnv.txt to add "fdtfile=/boot/dtb/allwinner/sun50i-a64-pine64.dtb" ...

 

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On 5/16/2019 at 5:58 PM, martinayotte said:

This mean that Armbian U-Boot has "fdtfile" hardcoded to /boot/dtb/allwinner/sun50i-a64-pine64-plus.dtb.

Another way to workaround it is to edit /boot/armbianEnv.txt to add "fdtfile=/boot/dtb/allwinner/sun50i-a64-pine64.dtb" ...

 

I had this same problem.

Adding this edit to /boot/armbianEnv.txt borked the system and rendered it unbootable.

 

Copying the files, as mentioned above, worked very well.

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2 hours ago, Paraplegic Racehorse said:

Adding this edit to /boot/armbianEnv.txt borked the system and rendered it unbootable.

In fact, this is because I've made a typo : it should not include the /boot/dtb/ path, so it should work using "fdtfile=/allwinner/sun50i-a64-pine64.dtb", because the /boot/boot.scr will append /boot/dtb path itself.

 

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6 hours ago, martinayotte said:

In fact, this is because I've made a typo : it should not include the /boot/dtb/ path, so it should work using "fdtfile=/allwinner/sun50i-a64-pine64.dtb", because the /boot/boot.scr will append /boot/dtb path itself.

 

Tried this on a different SD card for a different board (same model, serial numbers differ by 2) and it borked the system and rendered it unbootable. Again, copying over the files worked.

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