[coreboot] Ethernet/Wifi not working with coreboot/seabios/me_cleaner on a Thinkpad x230

[John Lewis]

\o/ ;)


On 04/07/17 17:36, Marcel Maci wrote:
> Hi, this is really too silly - it was the system date and time!!!
> And what confused me additionally was that I used
>
> date -s ".."
>
> instead of:
>
> sudo date -s ".."
>
> (And at the beginning I didn't realize that the system date hadn't
> changed ...)
>
> So, no need to investigate more about this case: it works!
>
>
> ---
> Am Tue, 4 Jul 2017 13:35:12 +0100
> schrieb John Lewis <jlewis at johnlewis.ie>:
>
>> Hi Guys,
>>
>> On Chromebooks, it's quite easy for the time to go completely wrong
>> because of no CMOS battery (so you lose the time and get something
>> stupid if the battery completely drains or is disconnected), which
>> then stops Network Manager from being able to connect (at least with
>> wifi), for reasons best known to devs ...
>>
>> In systemd based distros you need to use timedatectl to correct such a
>> situation. If it's not that then please ignore me.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> John.
>>
>>
>> On 04/07/17 13:27, Zoran Stojsavljevic wrote:
>>> Hello Marcel,
>>>
>>> Which OS you are using on the top of Coreboot/SeaBIOS? I assume
>>> Linux. If Linux, could you, please, post your complete dmesg log of
>>> the current session after you are fully up and running user space?
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>> Zoran
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 5:23 PM, Marcel Maci <elpinguino at gmx.ch
>>> <mailto:elpinguino at gmx.ch>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>     Hi, I've flashed coreboot with seaBIOS and me_cleaner to my
>>> Thinkpad x230 and everything works fine except the network. Neither
>>> wifi nor ethernet works. Could this be a problem with the gbe.bin
>>> I've used (I extracted it with ifdtool -x from the factory bios and
>>> the first time I did this on another Thinkpad x230 it worked
>>> perfectly)?
>>>
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