by mjanderson235 » Mon Oct 20, 2014 1:13 am
I've been having the exact same problem as danbru1211 - the two green lights on the side of the board, along with both the green and amber lights on the ethernet port, show up with or without the SD card. The card itself would seem to have all the appropriate files (devicetree.dtb, uImage, parallela.bit.bin, everything taken from headless installs).
I can't find the board, whether I directly connect it with an ethernet cable, used a closed network with a router, or plug it into my normal wireless router. When I take the SD card out to check the files in /var/log, nothing has been written (and I made sure to change the file permissions to a+rw on the log files, just to make sure that wasn't causing a problem).
I'm waiting for cables and peripherals to connect it up via other means (didn't have either an HDMI monitor or USB keyboard), but it looks like the networking is supposed to work out of the box from what I've been seeing - is that correct? Or is it absolutely necessary via serial to start interacting with the board?
Thanks in advance for any help!