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Date:      Tue, 26 Aug 2014 19:20:38 -0400
From:      George Rosamond <george@ceetonetechnology.com>
To:        freebsd-arm@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 10.0 on Raspberry PI B+ no network devices
Message-ID:  <53FD1646.2010103@ceetonetechnology.com>
In-Reply-To: <20140826074951.4cf5a8fc@X220.alogt.com>
References:  <20140825165622.6771b548@X220.alogt.com> <A7221D06-31EC-4E00-A08C-64DB33F400FE@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> <20140825163528.d2e696cc3d03ad9bebcd239c@schwarzes.net> <20140826074951.4cf5a8fc@X220.alogt.com>

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Erich Dollansky wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 25 Aug 2014 16:35:36 +0200 (CEST)
> Andreas Schwarz <Andreas.Schwarz@schwarzes.net> wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, 25 Aug 2014 09:05:35 -0400 Paul Mather
>> <paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> wrote:
>>> On Aug 25, 2014, at 4:56 AM, Erich Dollansky
>>> <erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>>> I got recently two Raspberries B+. I downloaded the file
>>>> FreeBSD-10.0-STABLE-arm-armv6-RPI-B-20140406-r264194.img.bz2 and
>>>> copied it to a memory card. 
>>>>
>>>> I edited rc.conf to be able to use the Raspberries without
>>>> keyboard. The problem is now that no network comes up.
>>>>
>>>> ue0 simply does not exist.
>>>>
>>>> What do I do wrong here?
>>>>
>>>> It must be something simple I just do not see.
>>>
>>> You are likely not doing anything wrong.  As I understand it, the
>>> Model B+ uses a slightly different USB controller/revision to the
>>> Model B, and this might not be recognised/supported yet by
>>> FreeBSD.  The network is via USB on Raspberry Pi, so the USB
>>> support problem would cause the network not to work/be recognised.
>>
>> I've got also two B+ Models two weeks ago and I'm able to use the
>> image (r269955) from my B Models without any problems. The only
>> thing, what I had to do, was to upgrade the bootloader to a recent
>> version.
>>
>> Have a look at :
>>
>>   https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/tree/master/boot
>>
> I used now the image from
> 
> http://freebsd-current.os-hackers.jp/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/20140725/raspberry-pi/
> 
> and the machine boots. I do not know more at the moment.

I assume the entire RPi firmware from Github directory gets dumped into
/boot/msdos?

g




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