Asus Eee Box B202

[Luke]

Has anyone worked with the Asus ultra compact Eee Box B202? When I
boot the machine, whether from CD, SD, or USB key, everything starts
perfectly until it tries to DHCP an address. It takes quite a while
and then starts scrolling UDP Checksum failure errors on the screen.
It comes up to the concerto viewer, but locks up shortly after. Also,
when I setup this machine in the screen section, I enter e0cb4e1a4363
for the client MAC but it changes the last two digits to 66 after I
hit submit. I can fix this in the database manually, but it won't
enter the address correctly for this mac.

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[Andrew Armenia]

I would guess that there is some issue with the Ethernet driver causing things to freeze. My guess is that it's a driver which tries to do some sort of hardware checksum acceleration in the Ethernet controller, which is obviously failing miserably in this case. If you can get as far as a shell, send me a copy of the "lsmod" output. If not, see if you can spot the name of the Ethernet driver anywhere else in the boot messages, or boot a generic live CD and run "lspci" and lsmod" and send me the output. I'll see what I can find out from there.

-Andrew

[Luke D. Kumberg]

Here is the output.  This model has wired and wireless options, but we will be utilizing the wired option.

 

Thanks!!

 

Luke

 

Module                  Size  Used by

i915                  165800  2

drm                   153376  3 i915

i2c_algo_bit            5728  1 i915

ipv6                  254036  14

af_packet              17276  2

snd_hda_codec_via      27360  1

snd_hda_intel          24136  0

snd_hda_codec          64060  2 snd_hda_codec_via,snd_hda_intel

snd_pcm                73376  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec

video                  18256  1 i915

snd_timer              20516  1 snd_pcm

pcspkr                  2268  0

usbhid                 26208  0

iTCO_wdt               10656  0

iTCO_vendor_support     3392  1 iTCO_wdt

hid                    41504  1 usbhid

processor              34544  0

output                  2652  1 video

jme                    30652  0

mii                     5116  1 jme

snd                    56196  4 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer

asus_atk0110            7644  0

button                  5100  0

thermal                12696  0

thermal_sys            13668  3 video,processor,thermal

soundcore               7168  1 snd

snd_page_alloc          8612  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm

 

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)

00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)

00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)

00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)

00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 02)

00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)

00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)

00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)

00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)

00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)

00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2)

00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)

00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE Controller (rev 02)

00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)

01:00.0 Ethernet controller: JMicron Technologies, Inc. JMC250 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet (rev 11)

[Luke]

I believe I found some information for you if that helps... In a
Ubuntu forum, it appears the appropriate driver is not included with
their distro. You have to get the drivers from the website.

Here is the forum.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1395317

> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Luke <lkumb...@prmc.org> wrote:
>
> Has anyone worked with the Asus ultra compact Eee Box B202?  When I
> boot the machine, whether from CD, SD, or USB key, everything starts
> perfectly until it tries to DHCP an address.  It takes quite a while
> and then starts scrolling UDP Checksum failure errors on the screen.
> It comes up to the concerto viewer, but locks up shortly after.  Also,
> when I setup this machine in the screen section, I enter e0cb4e1a4363
> for the client MAC but it changes the last two digits to 66 after I
> hit submit.  I can fix this in the database manually, but it won't
> enter the address correctly for this mac.
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[Andrew Armenia]

Thanks for the input... I'll try to patch the modules and provide a new plugin file to you.

-Andrew

[Andrew Armenia]

Done compiling! Try replacing your modules_x.xx.xx.plugin with this one...

http://www.concerto-signage.com/downloads/modules_2.6.33.1-jmefix.plugin

-Andrew

[Luke D. Kumberg]

Still getting the UDP error.  I would like to try the wireless to see if that works.  Do you have instructions on how to set this up?

 

Luke

[Andrew Armenia]

Did you make sure to remove the old plugin from your boot medium?

There are environment variables to set for wireless configuration. I will write some documentation on those a bit later and send it over.

-Andrew

On May 26, 2010 1:53 PM, "Luke D. Kumberg" <lkum...@prmc.org> wrote:

Still getting the UDP error.  I would like to try the wireless to see if that works.  Do you have instructions on how to set this up?

 

Luke

 

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Done compiling! Try replacing your modules_x.xx.xx.plugin with this one...

http://www.concerto...

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[Luke D. Kumberg]

I removed the old plugin and copied over the new one.  Thanks for you help!

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[Andrew Armenia]

Without having the hardware, it won't be too easy for me to troubleshoot the jme driver issue. As far as wireless goes, once you've got supported hardware installed, you need to do a couple of things:

1. Tell the startup scripts which specific network interface you want to use. If you can run ifconfig from a shell on the box, you'll be able to get the interface identifier (something like eth0, eth1, wlan1, or ath0) from there. If not, you can specify the interface to use by its MAC address. These are set in config.pl: set the ETHERNET_CARD variable if you know the identifier, or CARD_MAC otherwise. Even if you do know the identifier, you may want to use the CARD_MAC setting, as it will be immune to the numbering changing if another card is later added for some reason.

2. Specify your wireless network configuration. Currently, only WEP and WPA-PSK are supported. (Unencrypted networks are unsupported right now - whoops!) To specify the network parameters, set the WIRELESS_SSID, WIRELESS_ENCRYPTION, and WIRELESS_PSK variables in config.pl. WIRELESS_SSID should be set to the SSID of the wireless network, i.e. "rpi_concerto" here at RPI. WIRELESS_ENCRYPTION should be set to "wep" if WEP is being used, or "wpa-psk" if WPA-PSK is being used. WIRELESS_PSK should be set to the value of the wireless pre-shared key, in hexadecimal-digit form for WEP or ASCII form for WPA-PSK.

Finally, if you need to set a static IP on your wireless network, set the STATIC_IP, STATIC_NETMASK, STATIC_GATEWAY, and STATIC_DNS variables. These should be fairly self-explanatory.

If you run into trouble, check the output from iwconfig, ifconfig -a, dmesg, lspci, and lsmod to determine if the necessary drivers are being loaded, and if the interface is being detected. Try configuring the interface manually using those commands to determine if that's possible, or if there are driver issues. Wireless on Linux is sometimes tricky, especially with certain hardware, so expect some minor obstacles...

-Andrew

[Luke]

Ok, I've officially given up on the Eee Box B202. There is something
wonky with the network interfaces. I ended up ordering an Acer Aspire
R1600. I recieved it today, hooked it up, put my SD card in and next
thing I know I'm online and off to the races.

Thank you so much for your help, but I'm afraid the B202 might be a
lost cause...

Luke

> On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Luke D. Kumberg <lkumb...@prmc.org> wrote:
>
>
>
> >  I removed the old plugin and copied over the new one.  Thanks for you
> > help!
>

> > *From:* concerto-dig...@googlegroups.com [mailto:
> > concerto-dig...@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Andrew Armenia
> > *Sent:* Wednesday, May 26, 2010 1:04 PM
>
> > *To:* concerto-dig...@googlegroups.com
> > *Subject:* Re: RE: Asus Eee Box B202

>
> > Did you make sure to remove the old plugin from your boot medium?
>
> > There are environment variables to set for wireless configuration. I will
> > write some documentation on those a bit later and send it over.
>
> > -Andrew
>

> > On May 26, 2010 1:53 PM, "Luke D. Kumberg" <lkumb...@prmc.org> wrote:
>
> > Still getting the UDP error.  I would like to try the wireless to see if
> > that works.  Do you have instructions on how to set this up?
>
> > Luke
>

> > *From:* concerto-dig...@googlegroups.com [mailto:
> > concerto-dig...@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Andrew Armenia
> > *Sent:* Monday, May 24, 2010 7:46 PM

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> > Done compiling! Try replacing your modules_x.xx.xx.plugin with this one...
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> >http://www.concerto...
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