Re: Debian Installation on Thecus N2350 (Marvell Armada 385)

Hi Manuel,

> I also upgraded to Debian Buster

Cool!

> and got the MAC
> address problem, which has been described in
> another thread. I just hardcoded the address now.

But the MAC address problem does not show up on my Thecus N2350 :). I have not posted this info because I wanted to track it down on the NAS326.

However, let's compare the system info on our boxes.

Thecus N2350
Linux version 5.2.9-mvebu-tld-1 (root@tldDebianVM) (gcc version 7.4.0 (Ubuntu/Linaro 7.4.0-1ubuntu1~18.04.1)) #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Aug 19 12:47:39 PDT 2019
Debian 10.0
console=ttyS0,115200 root=LABEL=rootfs rootdelay=10 mtdparts=pxa3xx_nand-0:-(ubifs);spi1.0:0x00400000(uboot),0x00010000@0x00100000(uboot_env),0x00010000@0x00300000(uboot_scr) earlyprintk=serial
uboot_version=U-Boot 2013.01 (Nov 12 2018 - 20:56:19) Marvell version: 2015_T1.0p18-tld-4

root@tldDebian:~# dpkg -l | grep udev

ii  libgudev-1.0-0:armel                   232-2                         armel        GObject-based wrapper library for libudev
ii  libudev0:armel                         175-7.2                       armel        libudev shared library
ii  libudev1:armel                         241-5                         armel        libudev shared library
ii  udev                                   241-5                         armel        /dev/ and hotplug management daemon

root@tldDebian:~# dmesg | grep -i mac

[    0.000000] OF: fdt: Machine model: Thecus N2350
[    4.172727] mvneta f1070000.ethernet eth0: Using hardware mac address 00:14:xx:xx:xx:xx
[   25.068216] systemd-udevd[1790]: Could not generate persistent MAC address for ip6tnl0: No such file or directory

Note that ipv6 error is not relevant.

root@tldDebian:~# sysctl -a | grep ipv6 | grep disable

net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1
net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_policy = 0
net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6 = 1
net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_policy = 0
net.ipv6.conf.eth0.disable_ipv6 = 1
net.ipv6.conf.eth0.disable_policy = 0
net.ipv6.conf.ip6tnl0.disable_ipv6 = 1
net.ipv6.conf.ip6tnl0.disable_policy = 0
net.ipv6.conf.lo.disable_ipv6 = 1
net.ipv6.conf.lo.disable_policy = 0
net.ipv6.conf.sit0.disable_ipv6 = 1
net.ipv6.conf.sit0.disable_policy = 0

I got to the point where I think u-boot version seems to be the only difference. But I need to lok at the DTS to see there is difference between the N2350 and NAS326, regarding ethernet.