EtherUSB doesn't find backend when another territory than UK is configured

I have a user which reports that with his BeagleBoard the EtherUSB module doesn’t find any backend when the system is configured to a non-UK territory. It only find the backend after the non-UK territory module is loaded and the EtherUSB modules has been RMReinited. Can somebody confirm this problem on his BeagleBoard?

I guess this is a similar problem like the one with the IconBar module. At OS startup the EtherUSB module uses some C-function (for example a string compare) which calls Territorry Manager to perform some local stuff (ie compare strings in local alphabet) which fails because at ROM modules initialisation the non-UK territory has not been loaded yet.

This is the output of ejinfo when the non-UK territory is configured:
EtherUSB driver for USB network adapters, version 0.22 (31 Oct 2012) James Peacock
DCI version: 4.04, prefix: ejMaximum units: 16

Supported backends:
SMSC95xx – SMSC 95xx
MCS7830 – MosChip MCS7830
Pegasus – Pegasus USB Ethernet Adapter
AX88772 – ASIX AX88772
AX88172 – ASIX AX88172
CDC – USB Communications Class Ethernet [Not functional yet]

When configured to UK the SMSC95xx backend is found.

I can not confirm this. I use the german territory without problems on this point. May be the MAC-adresse setting in Predesk fix this problem. I use my old RiscPC one.

But which RISC OS 5 version (from which date) and EtherUSB module version do you use? We found this problem in a recent version of the ROM (2012-12-10).

Actually I use the 2012-12-16 ROM but I try every ROM on my Testboard before I use this on my BIK and EtherUSB works without problems.
My 00_SetupMAC placed in Predesk do the following:
*Set EtherUSB$MAC_Configured yo:ur:ow:nM:ac:00
*RMReinit EtherUSB
*RMReinit Internet

Yes your’re right, your Predesk file SetupMAC is a “fix” for the problem because you RMReinit the EtherUSB module. Try to boot your system without RMReiniting EtherUSB. Does the problem then occur?

Sorry. It takes time. I must reconfigure my router.
I have try the latest and the 10 Dec ROM. I became a error message from RemotePrinterFS. But this message I have often if I change the ROM. I must resave my Network settings unchanged via !Boot → Network → Internet (only looking and save). Restart and all things are ok.

Hello Raik,

Sorry for the late reply, was very busy last month. I’ve now a Raspberry PI available which shows the same problem. Could you test the following on your Beagle Board?:
- Start system with German territory configured with !Boot disabled (!Boot can be disabled by renaming it from $.!Boot to $.Boot). Test with *ejinfo if the EtherUSB module sees the backend.
- Start system with German territory configured with !Boot and !Territory disabled (rename $.!Territory to $.Territory to disable it). A floppy disc symbol will be shown, booting can be resumed by pressing Escape. Test with *ejinfo if EtherUSB module sees the backend.

Many thanks for testing.

I’m not understand this Test. Disable !Boot lost all settings. But I do this ;-)
Test1:
*ejinfo
EtherUSB driver for USB network adapters, version 0.22 (31 Oct 2012) James Peacock
DCI version: 4.04, prefix: ej
Maximum units: 16
Supported backends:
SMSC95xx – SMSC 95xx
MCS7830 – MosChip MCS7830
Pegasus – Pegasus USB Ethernet Adapter
AX88772 – ASIX AX88772
AX88172 – ASIX AX88172
CDC – USB Communications Class Ethernet [Not functional yet]
Unit 0 (USB bus 1, device 3, Devices:$.USB3):
Backend: SMSC95xx
Ethernet address: 02:07:21:68:16:03
Link type: unknown
Link status: up, auto, 100Mb, full duplex, polarity correct
Controller mode: unicast, broadcast, multicast
Frame types claimed:
IEEE 802.3 handler=(FC339EA4,FB4075CC)
Statistics summary:
TX frames 3 RX frames 0
TX bytes 183 RX bytes 0
TX errors 0 RX errors 0
TX queue length 0 RX unwanted 0
TX queue overflows 0

Test2:
*ejinfo
EtherUSB driver for USB network adapters, version 0.22 (31 Oct 2012) James Peacock
DCI version: 4.04, prefix: ej
Maximum units: 16
Supported backends:
SMSC95xx – SMSC 95xx
MCS7830 – MosChip MCS7830
Pegasus – Pegasus USB Ethernet Adapter
AX88772 – ASIX AX88772
AX88172 – ASIX AX88172
CDC – USB Communications Class Ethernet [Not functional yet]
Unit 0 (USB bus 1, device 3, Devices:$.USB3):
Backend: SMSC95xx
Ethernet address: 02:07:21:68:16:03
Link type: unknown
Link status: up, auto, 100Mb, full duplex, polarity correct
Controller mode: unicast, broadcast, multicast
Frame types claimed:
IEEE 802.3 handler=(FC339EA4,FB4075CC)
Statistics summary:
TX frames 3 RX frames 0
TX bytes 183 RX bytes 0
TX errors 0 RX errors 0
TX queue length 0 RX unwanted 0
TX queue overflows 0

And now with normal !Boot:
*ejinfo
EtherUSB driver for USB network adapters, version 0.22 (31 Oct 2012) James Peacock
DCI version: 4.04, prefix: ej
Maximum units: 16
Supported backends:
SMSC95xx – SMSC 95xx
MCS7830 – MosChip MCS7830
Pegasus – Pegasus USB Ethernet Adapter
AX88772 – ASIX AX88772
AX88172 – ASIX AX88172
CDC – USB Communications Class Ethernet [Not functional yet]
Unit 0 (USB bus 1, device 3, Devices:$.USB3):
Backend: SMSC95xx
Ethernet address: 00:C0:32:00:CC:0E
Link type: unknown
Link status: up, auto, 100Mb, full duplex, polarity correct
Controller mode: unicast, broadcast, multicast
Frame types claimed:
IEEE 802.3 handler=(FC339EA4,FB4075CC)
Ethernet 8035 (normal) handler=(FC2F769C,FB40752C)
Ethernet 0806 (normal) handler=(FC2F769C,FB40752C)
Ethernet 0800 (multicast) handler=(FC2F769C,FB40752C)
Statistics summary:
TX frames 557 RX frames 618
TX bytes 90904 RX bytes 443261
TX errors 0 RX errors 0
TX queue length 0 RX unwanted 0
TX queue overflows 0

Thanks again for the tests. I wanted to be absolutely sure that EtherUSB wasn’t reinitialised at some place in !Boot or !Territory. So it looks that even without any territory module loaded (Test2), EtherUSB still finds the backend of your hardware. Did you get the fullscreen floppy disc symbol at startup during Test2?