Getting Apps to Use Ethernet With ICS DevKit 3.0.0

Chris;

Have you configured DNS values?

setprop net.dns1 <dns server ip>

http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/TI-Android-GingerBread-2.3.4-DevKit-2.1.1_UserGuide#Browser_Manual_Configuration

for proxy configuration for ICS it's properties were moved to secure side.

Yes.  I have tried both internal DNS servers and external servers (8.8.8.8), (and also no proxy needed--at least for normal network access).

Have you specified 'ethernet' as an available network in the frameworks overlay for your device.

See the overlay in omap3evm for example: http://gitorious.org/rowboat/vendor-ti-omap3evm/blobs/rowboat-ics/overlay/frameworks/base/core/res/res/values/config.xml

'networkAttributes' and 'radioAttributes' arrays need to be populated with the values appropriate for ethernet.

Yes, I believe so.  Here are the lines from my corresponding file (we aren't supporting bluetooth, so I commented it out):

    <string-array translatable="false" name="networkAttributes">
        <item>"wifi,1,1,1,-1,true"</item>
        <item>"wifi_p2p,13,1,0,-1,true"</item>
<!--        <item>"bluetooth,7,7,0,-1,true"</item>      -->
        <item>"ethernet,9,9,2,-1,true"</item>
    </string-array>

    <string-array translatable="false" name="radioAttributes">
        <item>"1,1"</item>
        <item>"7,1"</item>
        <item>"9,1"</item>
    </string-array>

The overlay changes look OK.

We have tested ethernet connectivity only on the browser. Can you send us the logcat output when you run Google Maps or other apps where ethernet networking does not work? We can analyse the logs to discover the cause.

Here's the log where I started an Engadget app that results in "Please check your internet connection and try again".  I'm also including the Engadget app so you can test with it as well.

Log File:  3113.no-eth.log

Engadget App (gzipped):  6136.Engadget_1.0.4.apk.gz

Thanks for your assistance!  - Chris

Sorry for the delay, I have been busy with other priority tasks.

I have been able to get the engadget app working on AM335x (DevKit release 3.0.1 with kernel 3.2). I could not manage to get an AM37x device to test your apk.

DevKit 3.0.0 release for AM37x uses the older android kernel 2.6.37. I'm not sure if the issues you are facing is due to the older kernel.

Will the next DevKit for the AM37xx use the 3.2 kernel, or will it still use 2.6.37?

Any timeframe anticipated for the next DevKit?

Please refer to this patch to update the kernel config on AM335xevm : http://groups.google.com/group/rowboat/browse_thread/thread/a5bbf54fe489a4b3

Can you try enabling these options on 2.6.37 kernel and see if it helps.

Thanks very much Vishveshwar!  That got things working, at least from an SD card for the Mail client.  The problem for my development environment is that it hangs when using an NFS mounted root filesystem, right after it gets to the

root@android:/ #

prompt, though it does keep saying

nfs: server 192.168.0.43 not responding, still trying

It obviously has read stuff from the filesystem, but something (I assume in the init.rc file) is causing the mount to fail.  So that's what I'm off to tackle now.

Thanks again!

I should point out that I couldn't apply the patches directly, because some things like quota2 aren't in the version of the kernel used in DevKit 3.0.0

Thanks for the update. Good to know this worked for you.

We shall update the default android defconfigs in the kernel sources with these additional config options soon.

Just as a reminder, while those settings got network connection over Ethernet working, they make it so I couldn't use NFS for my root filesystem.  Today I was able to get both (apparently) working by removing the support for netfilter (CONFIG_NETFILTER is not defined in this case).  Perhaps this will cause other problems, however.  I need to see if WiFi will work properly with this setting.

It looks like I spoke too soon.  The mail application that came with DevKit 3.0.0 works with Ethernet with those kernel changes, but the Engadget app still does not work.

- Chris

Well, Engadget doesn't work, but Google Maps does work.  Perhaps Engadget is not willing to use Ethernet and is insisting on WiFi or a Cellular-like connection.

We have successfully got engadget app to work over ethernet on Flashboard (AM37x) after the following defconfig changes.

5125.0001-flashboard-android-config-enable-additional-netfilte.patch.txt

Thanks very much for the suggestion, Vishveshwar.

I applied the above patch to the flashboard_android_defconfig file (which patched cleanly), then used the networking configuration from the resulting file in our board's .config file.  The Engadget app still doesn't work (though the Mail and the OI Newsreader apps still do).

Was there anything other than the networking configuration that I should have imported?

Any suggestions on the Android side versus the kernel side?