What's the latest on wired ethernet? We are running into some issues with our chumbies.
We have physically removed the wifi card from the device and were successfully connecting using the Linksys USB 100M ethernet adapter. This works for a while, but after a few hours/days the ethernet drops off the network. It's still lit up but it can not connect to the internet and I can no longer ping it from the network. Unplug/replug of ethernet cable and USB dongle does not help, only power cycling the chumby can get it online again. The flash movie does not crash, it continues to play fine.
One theory is since the wifi card is not there, it is causing some sort of memory leak or crash in another driver ( rt73? ) that knocks out the network. Can I try removing that driver? ( rmmod rt73 )? or is it necessary for other funcationality?
Thinking it could also be the network card, I ordered a Trendnet adapter, a Belkin F5D5050 and we also have the Apple one lying around. We're just starting to test these other ethernet adapters, but so far it looks like they might have the same problem.
The Belkin won't work at all. I'm loading the pegasus driver and it successfully sees the usb and it starts blinking red/orange, but DHCP times out.
pegasus: v0.6.13 (2005/11/13), Pegasus/Pegasus II USB Ethernet driver
bus usb: add driver pegasus
usb: Matched Device 1-3:1.0 with Driver pegasus
pegasus 1-3:1.0: setup Pegasus II specific registers
CLASS: registering class device: ID = 'eth0'
class_uevent - name = eth0
pegasus 1-3:1.0: eth0, Belkin F5D5050 USB Ethernet, 00:05:1b:72:54:0d
bound device '1-3:1.0' to driver 'pegasus'
usb: Bound Device 1-3:1.0 to Driver pegasus
usbcore: registered new driver pegasus
eth0: set allmulti
chumby:~# udhcpc -t 5 -n -p /var/run/udhcpc.eth0.pid -i eth0
udhcpc (v1.6.1) started
Sending discover...
Sending discover...
Sending discover...
Sending discover...
Sending discover...
No lease, failing
chumby:~#
Trendnet is working and running on the bench now, wee'll see in a few hours if it holds up.
Anyone have suggestions or other things we can try to debug this issue?
Thanks!
-Vince