Pogoplug Mobile Blinking Green (10 replies)

I have a Pogoplug Mobile that was flashed with Uboot 2017.07. It's running Debian 9 with the 5.8.3 kernel. I can boot it with no problem. Light goes solid green in under a minute, and can log in soon after.

So, I sent it to another guy who says it never goes past blinking green. I read a post that netconsole can cause this if serverip isn't active when it comes up, although it does have the updated preboot_nc which I thought fixed that problem, i.e. this

preboot_nc=setenv nc_ready 0; for pingstat in 1 2 3 4 5; do; sleep 1; if run if_netconsole; then setenv nc_ready 1; fi; done; if test $nc_ready -eq 1; then run start_netconsole; fi

But the strange thing is, he can boot it to solid green without Ethernet connected to his network. But when he then plugs in the Ethernet cable, it switches from solid green to blinking green, and he can't see it on his router. He checked the cable and Ethernet port on the router and they work fine with another device (PC), and he does have DHCP enabled on his router.

What condition would cause it to go blinking green when you plug in Ethernet? I'm thinking it's not netconsole because the box is already completely booted up, so well past preboot when Ethernet gets plugged in.

Any thoughts?

rsantag