[Arm-dev] Lies! Doesn't work on Raspberry Pi 3

Sat Sep 2 03:12:31 UTC 2017
Binary Buddha <the.binary.buddha at gmail.com>

I greatly apologize. I’ve been quite frustrated trying to get this to work. I even tried posting it on the forum and all I got was the entry level noob check recommendations. I’m an LPIC-2 certified Linux admin for over ten years now. And they’re telling me to check the obvious.

But, I’m sorry. So, lets continue on the issue. I’m not familiar with the mentioned “Archive List”. It’s not posted on the page I referenced. The page is the only Centos related page I’ve found in regards to RPi. Eth0 hasn’t worked since the clean install on a DHCP network. I also haven’t been exposed to a page of RPi specific steps on what I need to do to get it working. I’ve done the steps to get Wlan0. However, it’s lacking the tools and ability to connect to my network.

Ubuntumate does work on the exact same device without issues. I’m just switching it over to Centos because I’m an old school Red Hatter and it doesn’t need all the fatty GUI stuff. I’ve tried the other distros. It’s pretty much centos/redhat with more crap than I need.

My first concern is getting eth0 up and running. There is an eth0 network-script setup to use DHCP and up at boot. Per the dmesg log, it appears to be acknowledging the Broadcom chip and the sm chip used for networking. But both DHCP and static IP via ifconfig doesn’t connect it to the network. I can’t ping my router and the lights on the ethernet port aren’t blinking. I’ve also done the “giving it time to work” and rebooting stuff to see if it’ll work.

I would completely understand if there was a few small things the devs forgot to mention to get it working. And that Centos community lacks a decently efficient documentation system for those like me to follow those that frontline the progress of what we love.


Back when Redhat was free, I used to help port and test RPMs to get added to the repo. I wouldn’t mind aiding Centos in doing that again.


Binary Buddha
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> On Sep 1, 2017, at 09:50, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:
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> You jumped in with a very aggressive subject.  Did you check the archive of this list to see what others have experienced with running on a RPi3?  Perhaps you would have discovered that others had it working and dealing with other issues.  And thus your networking problems MAY be unique to you but really worth asking for assistance here.
> 
> Rather than accuse those that work with RPi of just putting out a line.
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> Do you really think that a main Linux distro would put out an image that just doesn't work?  ALL distros have some problem or other, that is why there are lists where people can help people.
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> Without insulting them.
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> On 09/01/2017 08:37 AM, Binary Buddha wrote:
>> Reference: https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/AltArch/Arm32#head-6c398ac6c18c92aca61ac974866636e43c48d2eb
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>> Yeah, eth0 and wlan0 doesn’t seem to be working with CentOS-Userland-7-armv7hl-Minimal-1611-RaspberryPi3.
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>> eth0 doesn’t seem to exist in /dev even though there’s a network script for it. It’s not pulling DHCP and ifconfig static ip config also doesn’t work.
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>> I did the /root/README thing via thumb drive and wlan0 doesn’t work when doing the wpa_supplicant method. Also iw isn’t installed to aid in making it easier.
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