Support ODroid X2 network after update

[demslam]

Howdy,
I just installed Arch to my odroid X2 and really like it thank you.

I just update a fresh image and lost ethernet connection, thought that was odd. so i just reimaged the SD card and ran "dmesg | grep smsc" and got the below
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '[ 6.745689] smsc95xx v1.0.4
[ 6.748368] [smsc95xx_read_mac_addr] The Random Generated MAC ID : "REDACTED"
[ 6.748427] [smsc95xx_read_mac_addr] Mac address = "REDACTED"
[ 6.793785] smsc95xx 1-2.1.1:1.0 eth0: register 'smsc95xx' at usb-s5p-ehci-2.1.1, smsc95xx USB 2.0 Ethernet, 42:c4:b4:f1:bd:ff
[ 6.793874] usbcore: registered new interface driver smsc95xx
[ 11.950139] smsc95xx 1-2.1.1:1.0 eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0xC5E1')

ran "lsmod" and got the below
$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'Module Size Used by
smsc95xx 19094 0
usbnet 21580 1 smsc95xx
gpio_keys 7070 0
ipv6 302996 16')

after the update "dmesg | grep smsc" and "lsmod" had no output. I tried "modprobe smsc95xx" that didnt seem to fix the problem, would anyone be able to give me some insight.

Thanks,

[renegat]

Also affects the ODroid-U2 image!
No network after (!) updating a fresh alarm installation on new eMMC.
'Solved' it by mirroring a working mSDHC alarm: There are no problems with network after updating.

[0lly]

same here (U2) and i can't solve this.
I installed on mircosd-card, i don't have a eMMC.

[kmihelich]

You will want to add a line into /etc/fstab to mount the first partition of the SD card to /boot so that kernel updates actually put the kernel into the first partition where the bootloader will be looking for it:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', '/dev/mmcblk0p1 /boot vfat defaults 0 0')

Otherwise, when you update the kernel and reboot, the older kernel that is still running doesn't have its modules in the filesystem anymore will fail to start network and other things because the network driver is a module. If you add this to an installation you've already updated and are in this situation without modules, mount /boot and reinstall the kernel package, which should still be in your package cache on the system and won't require internet. I'll add the fstab line into our installation images.

[0lly]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')code]/dev/mmcblk0p1 /boot vfat defaults 0 0[/code]