[MinnowBoard] Repeating "pch_gbe: Transfer Carrier Sense Error" message

[Robert]

Thanks Ken.  Yes, I see there is a lot of extra stuff that isn't for the
Minnowboard.  You are right: it does go to the prompt - and everything seems
to work.

For me, the power up is solid, and I just ignore the ext2/ext3 errors.  The
only one that I am going to try to get rid of is the carrier sense error
since it just keeps repeating and is a nuisance.


-----Original Message-----
From: Ken Tait [mailto:ktait at venturesystemdesign.com] 
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2014 5:56 PM
To: robert at layer2.com; MinnowBoard Development and Community Discussion
Subject: Re: [MinnowBoard] Repeating "pch_gbe: Transfer Carrier Sense Error"
message

You are not really missing anything. there are extra drivers spliced in to
the angstrom to recognize peripherals you may not have. They probably
started with a working version and modified it rather than a ground up
build, so there is libale to be extra stuff in here that does not pertain to
this board.

For instance the ext3-fs is another file system, maybe for an additional SD
card interface on the expansion port that doesn't actually exist. 
Another one is the CAN interface, which is not connected to anything.

You can ignore these for now, it should blow past these and boot up if you
have a valid keyboard/mouse and display attached. If you just have a
terminal you should come up to a prompt.

I noticed on my board there is some flakiness with the power on sequence.
The 5V barrel connector does not always make good contact with the supplied
adapter and sometimes the board is so fast it missed the microSD card
connection and assumes there is nothing to boot from. If you get this,
trying hitting the reset button or breaking power again.

I have had this working, runs pretty well drivers fairly good out of the
box. I have it running an hdmi monitor. Note that the default display
settings may make it look like crap, so you may have to manually adjust
these if the gui is not ledgable.

i have been able to download other angstrom programs and run them, tried a
web cam. VLC won't see it, but cheesbox does...go figure...

hope this helps
Ken