snappy on raspberry pi 2: DHCP, I2C

roger peppe roger.peppe at canonical.com
Thu Jun 11 08:15:58 UTC 2015


Presumably I'll need an image with that kernel before I can
run that command?


On 11 June 2015 at 09:08, Paolo Pisati <paolo.pisati at canonical.com> wrote:
> for i2c, as a stop gap:
>
> sudo modprobe i2c-chardev
>
> should fix it, i'll release a kernel with that builtin.
>
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 9:55 AM, roger peppe <roger.peppe at canonical.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm a total snappy and rpi newbie, just acquired an
>> orange matchbox to play with and very much feeling my way,
>> so my apologies if the answers to these questions are obvious.
>>
>> The snappy image that I'm using is (I think) the
>> latest image from here
>> http://people.canonical.com/~lool/pi2-device-and-oem/
>>
>> Two initial questions:
>>
>> 1) How can I get snappy to DHCP automatically after booting?
>> I was expecting the network to come up right away, but
>> I need to manually run "dhclient eth0" to get the network
>> working.
>>
>> 2) What's the status of I2C devices/drivers? Various software
>> (e.g. github.com/schoentoon/piglow, which I'm particularly
>> interested in because I'd like to drive the piglow device from
>> Go) assumes the existence of /dev/i2c-*, which isn't
>> there. Do we need to do this in userspace?
>>
>>   cheers,
>>     rog.
>>
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>
>
>
> --
> bye,
> p.



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