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    wwarsin @Sebastian Roth
    last edited by Dec 17, 2015, 4:55 PM

    @Sebastian-Roth

    I upgraded to SVN 5762 and the surface booted directly into debug mode (instead of having to manually enter the IP address of the fog server) but network still isn’t working. I ran lsusb again because i’ve acquired the Microsoft Model 1663 (USB to ethernet Gigabit adapter).
    045e:07c6

    If you prefer i test with the model 1552 (10/100 adapter) let me know but we’ll probably use the 1663 once we get this working.

    0_1450371194970_20151217_115206_resized.jpg

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      Sebastian Roth Moderator
      last edited by Sebastian Roth Dec 17, 2015, 5:59 PM Dec 17, 2015, 11:10 PM

      @wwarsin Yes, we changed the iPXE script which is probably why you don’t see it asking for the IP address anymore. Upgrading to the latest version means that the latest kernel has been downloaded as well. I am not sure if the patch is still part of the kernel. @Tom-Elliott??

      Re-reading all the posts I saw that you had a full dmesg output posted with your very first question already (thank god you did!):

      cdc_ether 1-2.4:2.0 eth0: register 'cdc_ether' at usb-0000:00:14.0-2.4, CDC Ethernet Device, 60:45:bd:f9:62:b6
      ...
      cdc_ether 1-2.4:2.0 eth0: kevent 12 may have been dropped
      
      

      So to me this means that an older kernel version was magicaly able to run your USB NIC device with the cdc_ether driver. I am not sure why this is not working anymore even if we add this driver back to the kernel. But I am not confident with the cdc_ether driver anyway and would hope that we don’t need it at all (RTL8152 chips being blacklisted is just on thing I don’t like about it).

      So we are back to the question: Are we able to make this USB NIC work with the r8152 driver and possibly how??

      In your last post I see

      cat: /sys/class/net/eth0/carrier: No such file or directory
      cat: /sys/class/net/eth0/carrier: Invalid argument
      

      Looks like eth0 is not available on the first try but pops up at some point. My guess is that Tom removed the patch after you last try as it didn’t seam to work. So the current version you installed when upgrading to the latest version might have installed a kernel without patch. But from what I see in your posts I have a feeling that we are pretty close to get this work with the patch.

      Feel free to try this kernel again: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B-bOeHjoUmyMV095YVpsR3U5VFk&usp=sharing
      Boot into debug mode and wait for a few seconds. Then see what you get from ls -al /sys/class/net/eth0/device/driver/module and dmesg | grep 8152

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        Tom Elliott @Sebastian Roth
        last edited by Dec 17, 2015, 11:51 PM

        @Sebastian-Roth What patch are you referring to?

        I removed my edits yes, cause you are absolutely correct that they didn’t matter anyway.

        So my custom patches are gone. I have not built a 4.3.3 kernel yet though I am aware it was released.

        I have not added CDC_ETHER either as I really don’t think it would matter either.

        I am still doing the mmc patch (which is part of why the slow to update to latest all the time – among working on the init scripts) but I know that part has no relevance to the issues in this thread.

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          Sebastian Roth Moderator
          last edited by Dec 18, 2015, 12:02 AM

          @Tom-Elliott Talking about this patch: http://svn.exactcode.de/t2/trunk/package/base/linux/surface-dock-eth.patch as I feel like this might be going down the right lane with this issue. Should work with any kernel version I reckon. Keep cdc_ether disabled, please.

          Web GUI issue? Please check apache error (debian/ubuntu: /var/log/apache2/error.log, centos/fedora/rhel: /var/log/httpd/error_log) and php-fpm log (/var/log/php*-fpm.log)

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            wwarsin @Sebastian Roth
            last edited by Dec 18, 2015, 7:21 PM

            @Sebastian-Roth I downloaded the bzimage you linked to and replaced the one /var/www/fog/service/ipxe and booted to

            Here are the results of the two commands:

            [root@fogclient /]# ls -al /sys/class/net/eth0/device/driver/module
            ls: cannot access /sys/class/net/eth0/device/driver/module: No such file or directory
            [root@fogclient /]# cd /sys/class/net
            [root@fogclient /]# ls
            lo@
            [root@fogclient /]# dmesg | grep 8152
            [    1.070704] usbcore: registered new interface driver r0152
            [root@fogclient /]#
            
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              Sebastian Roth Moderator
              last edited by Dec 19, 2015, 12:09 AM

              @wwarsin Thanks for trying and reporting. Does not look very good to me. But as I can see in one of your earlier posts it has kind of worked (at least not “No such file or directory”) in the past. What messages did you see this time when booting up into debug mode??

              Web GUI issue? Please check apache error (debian/ubuntu: /var/log/apache2/error.log, centos/fedora/rhel: /var/log/httpd/error_log) and php-fpm log (/var/log/php*-fpm.log)

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                Sebastian Roth Moderator
                last edited by Sebastian Roth Dec 19, 2015, 8:26 AM Dec 19, 2015, 1:33 PM

                @wwarsin I am wondering if the device is actually recognized. Could you please boot the device into debug mode. When you see the shell unplug the USB NIC. Wait for a few seconds and plug it back in. Then run dmesg | tail -n 20. Would be great if you could take a picture of what you see on the screen. Hopefully we might see something similar to this: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1236679 (we don’t have the same issue in FOG, just posting this to show what the output might look like).

                I stumbled upon a newer driver (kernel source code) on realtek.com.tw. Version 2.05.0 (2015/8/13) instead of the 1.08.2 (2014) included in kernel 4.3.3. Will try to build a kernel with that realtek code.

                Edit (read this first): I just remembered that I only added ID 045e:07ab (Microsoft Model 1552) to the kernel I compiled last because this was the device you reported using at first. So this means that using my kernel (the one I compiled 10 days ago) would not work with Microsoft Model 1663 (045e:07c6). I compiled two new kernel images that you can find here: https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B-bOeHjoUmyMV095YVpsR3U5VFk&usp=sharing
                Both added with the Microsoft device IDs for 1552 AND 1663! bzImage.vanilla is a plain kernel and bzImage.realtek I compiled with the earlier mentioned driver code from the realtek website. Try vanilla first as I hope that we don’t need the newest realtek driver. Again, boot into debug mode and try the commands. As well try re-plugging the device to see if it is recognized (see dmesg | tail -n 20).

                Web GUI issue? Please check apache error (debian/ubuntu: /var/log/apache2/error.log, centos/fedora/rhel: /var/log/httpd/error_log) and php-fpm log (/var/log/php*-fpm.log)

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                  wwarsin @Sebastian Roth
                  last edited by Dec 22, 2015, 2:51 PM

                  @Sebastian-Roth Hi Sebastian, I will try to get this to you next week or the week after due to the Holidays…

                  Have a great Christmas and New Years!

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                    wwarsin @Sebastian Roth
                    last edited by wwarsin Dec 28, 2015, 10:07 AM Dec 28, 2015, 3:51 PM

                    @Sebastian-Roth I just tested with the vanilla bzimage and in debug mode the network works! However when i tried to capture an image the network fails and reports

                    I upgraded to SVN 5798 and am still using the Microsoft Model 1663 network adapter.

                    Edit:
                    I seem to be getting mixed results now… I created the capture task and it first booted to the no network screen. Then it booted to the white FOG splashscreen and another attempt looked like it loaded correctly to start capturing the image however the screen went by so fast that i couldn’t catch any errors (the surface just restarted)

                    0_1451318841760_Fog_Failed_Capture.png

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                      Sebastian Roth Moderator
                      last edited by Dec 30, 2015, 11:08 AM

                      @wwarsin said:

                      I upgraded to SVN 5798 and am still using the Microsoft Model 1663 network adapter.

                      Whenever you upgrade you are using the current official FOG trunk kernel which does not have the patch included (to add the mentioned IDs).

                      Probably good if you can take a video of the screen so we might have a chance to see if there is an error and when exactly things go wrong. As I don’t have a surface device I need your assistance to figure this out. But it looks like we are making progress. At least we seam to have networking up again - maybe only part of the time, not sure why?!

                      Web GUI issue? Please check apache error (debian/ubuntu: /var/log/apache2/error.log, centos/fedora/rhel: /var/log/httpd/error_log) and php-fpm log (/var/log/php*-fpm.log)

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                        wwarsin @Sebastian Roth
                        last edited by Dec 30, 2015, 7:51 PM

                        @Sebastian-Roth I assume bzimage is the kernel? I downloaded this file after I upgraded to the newest SVN - I’ll hold off on upgraded fog until this is resolved.

                        I’m out the rest of this week (food poisoning 😞 ) but will take a video of the surface next week.

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                          Sebastian Roth Moderator
                          last edited by Jan 4, 2016, 2:17 PM

                          @wwarsin Sorry for my late reply. Have been without internet for some days. Hope you are better again!

                          Yes, bzImage is the kernel. Re-download and put in correct path (/var/www …) if you have upgraded. But there shouldn’t be a need to upgrade right now if you don’t see other issues. Probably best if you don’t to hopefully have more stable test results.

                          Looking forward to the video.

                          Web GUI issue? Please check apache error (debian/ubuntu: /var/log/apache2/error.log, centos/fedora/rhel: /var/log/httpd/error_log) and php-fpm log (/var/log/php*-fpm.log)

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                            wwarsin @Sebastian Roth
                            last edited by Jan 13, 2016, 5:30 PM

                            @Sebastian-Roth

                            I’m finally back in the office for a few days! Here’s the video: https://youtu.be/UFYNan98lmw This is with the Vanilla bzimage.

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                              Sebastian Roth Moderator
                              last edited by Jan 13, 2016, 10:17 PM

                              @wwarsin Looking at the last few lines of output it seams a bit like FOG doesn’t find any partitions on your device. It says “Saving Partition Tables (GTP)” and then “Task complete” straight way.
                              Can you please run a debug session on the surface and see what you get from lsblk

                              Web GUI issue? Please check apache error (debian/ubuntu: /var/log/apache2/error.log, centos/fedora/rhel: /var/log/httpd/error_log) and php-fpm log (/var/log/php*-fpm.log)

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                                wwarsin @Sebastian Roth
                                last edited by Jan 14, 2016, 8:12 PM

                                @Sebastian-Roth

                                Here’s a picture of the command;
                                0_1452802234736_surface.png

                                I have in “/dev/mmcblk0” in Host Primary Disk

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                                  Sebastian Roth Moderator
                                  last edited by Sebastian Roth Jan 14, 2016, 3:06 PM Jan 14, 2016, 9:01 PM

                                  @wwarsin I am really sorry that it seams like we have just been turning in circles! But I might have an idea of what is wrong here now. Spent a long time closely looking at the pictures and videos you posted and I might have found something.

                                  Picture and video show version 5798 (FOG boot logo message) which FOG polls from the server. But later on it says “Re-reading Partition Tables”. As far as I could find out in the code repository this string was changed in version 5752. So I am pretty sure you have version 5798 installed on the server but your init files did not get updated on the last upgrade - so the clients booting up use an older version.

                                  Please try this on your FOG server (as root!):

                                  cd /var/www/fog/service/ipxe
                                  mv init.xz init.xz_old
                                  wget https://fogproject.org/inits/init.xz
                                  chown www-data:www-data init.xz
                                  

                                  Then try booting your surface again. Hopefully this will make a difference!

                                  Tom has changed the disk/partition enumeration from lsblk to fdisk lately. So I am really keen to see if this is working on your device out of the box. Looking forward to hearing from you!

                                  Web GUI issue? Please check apache error (debian/ubuntu: /var/log/apache2/error.log, centos/fedora/rhel: /var/log/httpd/error_log) and php-fpm log (/var/log/php*-fpm.log)

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                                    wwarsin @Sebastian Roth
                                    last edited by wwarsin Jan 14, 2016, 4:40 PM Jan 14, 2016, 9:43 PM

                                    @Sebastian-Roth

                                    Success! It’s capturing the image now!

                                    I’ll write back a little later, i’m going to try a deploy after this finishes to verify it works completely.

                                    I appreciate all of the help you and Tom have been!

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                                      wwarsin @Sebastian Roth
                                      last edited by wwarsin Jan 14, 2016, 5:05 PM Jan 14, 2016, 11:04 PM

                                      @Sebastian-Roth
                                      So close! Now i’m getting the following error when i try to deploy:

                                      Checking write caching status on HDD…Failed

                                      Could not set caching status (enableWriteCache)

                                      0_1452812572278_surface.png

                                      Edit: I still have “/dev/mmcblk0” set as the Host Primary Disk

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                                        Wayne Workman @wwarsin
                                        last edited by Jan 15, 2016, 3:53 AM

                                        @Tom-Elliott I think center alignment of those pieces in that picture below don’t look very good. I suggest making only the initial logo/credits box be centered, and everything else left aligned.

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                                          Sebastian Roth Moderator
                                          last edited by Jan 15, 2016, 11:34 PM

                                          @wwarsin Great! Can you please run another debug session and let us know what you get from hdparm -i /dev/mmcblk0

                                          Yeah, pretty close we are indeed! 🙂

                                          Web GUI issue? Please check apache error (debian/ubuntu: /var/log/apache2/error.log, centos/fedora/rhel: /var/log/httpd/error_log) and php-fpm log (/var/log/php*-fpm.log)

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