Zyxel NSA 320 wake on lan

Hello tinkerer,

I know, this thread is old, but its about my issues: my NSA320 with Debian wheezy and bodhis Kernel 3.18 doesn`t inititialize it`s NIC correctly. It comes up and works, when i cold boot the box after i unplugged the powerplug AND the serial-to-USB interface is connected to my PC. It doesn`t come up, when i restart the machine with serial connection, and it also doesn`t come up from cold boot or restart without serial connection.

This behaviour is the same with DHCP or fixed address, and it doesn`t depend on the router or switch. I set up the original MAC in the uBoot environment via setenv ethaddr 50:67:f0.....

Earlier in this thread WarheadsSE wrote something about a relation between NIC and serial interface, but that didn`t help me to understand or solve the problem.

Anybody an ideas? I would be very happy.

BR

Jan



Edited 4 time(s). Last edit at 03/07/2015 03:07AM by JanN.

JanN,

I'm going to release a new test version for NSA320 and NSA325 u-boot (2014.07) soon. WarheadsSE did mention some odd behaviour in that if you disconnect serial console, the NSA320 is not booting. But all that might be related to the stock u-boot quirk in USB power (I could be wrong).

I can't give any advice on stock u-boot. IMO, we should just ignore its problem and flash the latest version we can build.

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@bodhi

Many thanks for your fast reply :-)

Do you really think, the problem is related to the uBoot? Stock OS uses the same and gets the NIC initialized, so i think, it must be related with the envs and/or the OS. And booting works fine - i can shutdown the box with pressing the powerbutton - just no network ;-).

But if you want me to test the new uBoot, i`ll do it for the community and the science. I need 3.3V from the serial for that, right? So i have to open the Prolific-plug and solder the red wire to the other power-terminal...

BR
Jan

JanN,

> I need 3.3V
> from the serial for that, right?

No. Do not connect power to the serial port!

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Try this ?!


1. Boot into Linux
2. Run:
rm /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
sync
boot
3. Stop uBoot from booting, so you get into the uBoot command line (if you accidently boot into Linux again, remove the rules file again!)
4. Run:
setenv ethaddr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
saveenv
reset (NOT 'boot'!)
5. Let it boot into Linux .. now you have an eth0 with the new MAC address

Dr. Dave K. Wrote:
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> Try this ?!
>
>
> 1. Boot into Linux
> 2. Run:
> rm /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
> sync
> boot
> 3. Stop uBoot from booting, so you get into the
> uBoot command line (if you accidently boot into
> Linux again, remove the rules file again!)
> 4. Run:
> setenv ethaddr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
> saveenv
> reset (NOT 'boot'!)
> 5. Let it boot into Linux .. now you have an eth0
> with the new MAC address

No. This is a solution for a different problem. Ie. Network persistent udev rules must be removed or commented out when reusing rootfs on another box.

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/02/2016 11:29AM by bodhi.

Ok but how is the internet speed? I had a seagate personal cloud, which had maxed at 190mbits speed. For it's CPU it was very low. Routers can do much higher with lower CPU's.

Okay I installed openwrt to it, and wake on lan just works naturally without doing anything. I also advise you guys to install openwrt's custom u-boot. The stock u-boot on this device is so bad, TFTP doesn't work properly. On openwrt u-boot tftpboot worked right away.