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

[John Lewis]

His Chromebook isn't a Chromebook, it's a Thinkpad x230, but it's a
similar principle.

I'm okay without kudos or karma or any of those things. :)


On 04/07/17 20:29, Zoran Stojsavljevic wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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
>     <mailto: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>
>     >>> <mailto: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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