Ethernet-over-USB: no IP assigned with latest images (Debian 7.9 2015-11-12, Debian 8.4 2016-05-13)

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Hi all,
both latest images (Debian 7.9 2015-11-12, Debian 8.4 2016-05-13)
do not assign an IP address in eth1.
This is already described here:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/beagleboard/dk7WYe95fTU/discussion

The previous image (Debian 7.8 2015-03-01) works without problems.

I think there should an urgent fix, otherwise the images are hardly usable.

Cheers,
Andrey

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What was the exact "8.4 2016-05-13" image name?

What host are you using?

Linux/Mac/windows?

btw, in newer systemd linux builds, it doesn't show up as ethX device, but
instead as enxMACADDRESS..

Regards,

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I mean the latest images here: https://beagleboard.org/latest-images

Debian 7.9 (BeagleBone, BeagleBone Black, SeeedStudio BeagleBone Green - 4GB SD) 2015-11-12
sha256sum: f6e67ba01ff69d20f2c655f5e429c3e6c2398123bcd3d8d548460c597275d277

Debian 8.4 (BeagleBone, BeagleBone Black, SeeedStudio BeagleBone Green, SeeedStudio BeagleBone Green Wireless, SanCloud BeagleBone Enhanced, element14 BeagleBone Black Industrial, Arrow BeagleBone Black Industrial - 4GB SD) 2016-05-13
sha256sum: 28d67e877497fb9e52fe605f2cbefdbaedaff23e9fa82e9ed2076ae375aa777f

My Host: Linux Mint 17.3
Linux 3.19.0-32-generic #37~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Thu Oct 22 09:41:40 UTC 2015 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I am afraid here reported the same problem (not possible to connect via ssh):
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/beagleboard/6RQ1FazhuTI/2Gp0R1wGBAAJ

Cheers,
Andrey

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Please unplug the unit:

Clear out your dmesg:

sudo dmesg -C

plug in unit

then please pass us:

dmesg

and

sudo ifconfig -a

Regards,

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I tried the image
Debian 7.9 (BeagleBone, BeagleBone Black, SeeedStudio BeagleBone Green - 4GB SD) 2015-11-12
sha256sum: f6e67ba01ff69d20f2c655f5e429c3e6c2398123bcd3d8d548460c597275d277

The IP address is assigned randomly. I could not clearly see the pattern. I think it works better if the power is given pluging in the USB cable then when pressing the POWER button on BBB

This is the ‘ifconfig -a’:

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Does it grab an ip with :

sudo dhclient eth2

?

Regards,

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No, it does not (eth2:avahi was added):

eth2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr d0:5f:b8:a3:51:a5
inet6 addr: fe80::d25f:b8ff:fea3:51a5/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:38 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:243 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:7507 (7.5 KB) TX bytes:64147 (64.1 KB)

eth2:avahi Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr d0:5f:b8:a3:51:a5
inet addr:169.254.9.54 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1