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

[Zoran Stojsavljevic]

Yup. John was right. The date on your Chromebook is Sun Aug 16 11:22:22
CEST 2161

Looking to your log, I found the first problem (I read thread after I found
auditd log portion and decipher the time):

[    2.489343] audit: type=1400 audit(6047083342.480:2): apparmor="STATUS"
operation="profile_load" profile="unconfined" name="/sbin/dhclient" pid=489
comm="apparmor_parser"
[    2.489350] audit: type=1400 audit(6047083342.480:3): apparmor="STATUS"
operation="profile_load" profile="unconfined"
name="/usr/lib/NetworkManager/nm-dhcp-client.action" pid=489
comm="apparmor_parser"
[    2.489355] audit: type=1400 audit(6047083342.480:4): apparmor="STATUS"
operation="profile_load" profile="unconfined"
name="/usr/lib/NetworkManager/nm-dhcp-helper" pid=489 comm="apparmor_parser"
[    2.489358] audit: type=1400 audit(6047083342.480:5): apparmor="STATUS"
operation="profile_load" profile="unconfined"
name="/usr/lib/connman/scripts/dhclient-script" pid=489
comm="apparmor_parser"
[    2.492907] audit: type=1400 audit(6047083342.484:6): apparmor="STATUS"
operation="profile_load" profile="unconfined"
name="/usr/lib/lightdm/lightdm-guest-session" pid=488 comm="apparmor_parser"
[    2.492914] audit: type=1400 audit(6047083342.484:7): apparmor="STATUS"
operation="profile_load" profile="unconfined"
name="/usr/lib/lightdm/lightdm-guest-session//chromium" pid=488
comm="apparmor_parser"
[    2.493976] audit: type=1400 audit(6047083342.484:8): apparmor="STATUS"
operation="profile_load" profile="unconfined"
name="/usr/lib/snapd/snap-confine" pid=501 comm="apparmor_parser"
[    2.493985] audit: type=1400 audit(6047083342.484:9): apparmor="STATUS"
operation="profile_load" profile="unconfined"
name="/usr/lib/snapd/snap-confine//mount-namespace-capture-helper" pid=501
comm="apparmor_parser"
[    2.497248] audit: type=1400 audit(6047083342.488:10): apparmor="STATUS"
operation="profile_load" profile="unconfined" name="/usr/sbin/cups-browsed"
pid=503 comm="apparmor_parser"

Just do the CLI command: date -d @6047083342.488 and you'll see.

By that time (Y2161) I'll look something like this (200Y old man):
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/b1/c9/8f/b1c98fb01833bdbd06513a3ffc8f6590.jpg

There are other problems (as well) in your dmesg log. But not to spoil the
situation (KUDOS to John). If you find anything else wrong, just scream! ;-)

Zoran

On Tue, Jul 4, 2017 at 7:08 PM, John Lewis <jlewis at johnlewis.ie> wrote:

> \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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