I’m still trying to get the Davicom DM9601 Ethernet adapter working on the beagleboard and not having much success.
I’m trying to get a USB Ethernet adapter working on the beagleboard.
I purchased one of the cheapest ones I could find
It’s based on the Davicom 9601 chipset.
I read in the comments that there is a Linux driver available, but didn’t
really think things through - of course they were talking about Linux on
x86.
It’s already enabled/working in the 2.6.29-oer* series…
[ 23.452148] eth0: register ‘dm9601’ at usb-musb_hdrc-1.2, Davicom
DM9601 USB Ethernet, 00:10:13:50:a3:43Plug it in and do a “sudo ifconfig -a”, it’s just really quiet and
never shows up in the dmesg…BTW, that adapter gets pretty hot, careful where you place it…
When I plug the adapter, instead of the eth0: register ‘dm9601’… message in dmesg, I get the following instead:
[ 120.190673] hub 1-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 2
Interestingly enough, once I’ve plugged this device in, the USB port seems to not recognise any further devices. I’ve tried with one other USB device (a DTT tuner I had lying around) and that generates a message in dmesg every time it’s plugged, once I plug this USB adapter in however I don’t get anything more from the USB port.
I’ve got the beagleboard plugged into my Mac via the USB OTG port, and that’s how it’s getting it’s power. I’m plugging the Ethernet adapter into the other USB port (next to the SD card slot). Could it be power related? The DTT Stick says that it requires 500mA, whereas the Ethernet adapter only claims to need 120mA.
I’ve plugged the adapter into my Mac and verified the USB vendor and device IDs:
USB Network Controller:
Product ID: 0x8101
Vendor ID: 0x0fe6
Version: 1.01
Serial Number:
Speed: Up to 12 Mb/sec
Location ID: 0x1d100000
Current Available (mA): 500
Current Required (mA): 120
can’t install linux-headers-
uname -ras it can’t find package find packagelinux-headers-2.6.29-oer44.1
It doesn’t exist in ubuntu’s repo, I’ve only recently began my attempt
to get it submitted upstream for 10.04…(and when i was generating the linux-header package, it was broken for armel)
Use the latest stable:
wget http://rcn-ee.net/deb/kernel/beagle/jaunty/v2.6.29-x45.2/install-me.sh
. install-me.sh
This gives me /lib/modules/2.6.29-x45.2, which doesn’t contain a build subdirectory. The make script is looking for /lib/modules/2.6.28-oer44.1/build
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.29-oer44.1/build M=/home/ubuntu/dm9601 LDDINCDIR=/homes
make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.29-oer44.1/build: No such file or directory. Stop.
make: *** [default] Error 2
After rebooting with the new kernel, I get a similar error:
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.29-x45.2/build M=/home/ubuntu/dm9601 LDDINCDIR=/home/us
make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.29-x45.2/build: No such file or directory. Stop.
make: *** [default] Error 2