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20 June 2011

Ethernet patch for Android Gingerbread

Finished porting the ethernet patch from android-x86 froyo branch to gingerbread and made them available on picopc android gingerbread repository here: https://gitorious.org/picopc-android-gingerbread (see the commits in frameworks-base, build and packages-apps-settings)

Changes from the android-x86 version:
- fixed static ip not being correctly setup
- added new icons for status bar
- changed status bar policy code

Remember to add dhcpcd_eth0 service in init.rc:

service dhcpcd_eth0 /system/bin/dhcpcd -BKL -d eth0 -dd
group system dhcp
disabled
oneshot


Direct download links to the patches:
patch /build repository
patch frameworks/base repository
patch /packages/apps/Settings repository
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3 comments:

  1. Bian JiangAugust 4, 2011 at 10:48 AM

    Hi Nicu:
    I try to port this patch to ARM, when select, "Ethernet
    configuration" got same error messages    . logcat:

    I/ActivityManager( 111): Starting: Intent { act=android.intent.action.MAIN cmp=com.android.settings/.EthernetSettings } from pid 472
    W/ApplicationContext( 472): Error getting service name:ethernet
    D/AndroidRuntime( 472): Shutting down VM
    W/dalvikvm( 472): threadid=1: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x40015560)
    I/EthernetManager( 472): Init Ethernet Manager, service: null
    E/AndroidRuntime( 472): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
    E/AndroidRuntime( 472): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{com.android.settings/com.android.settings.EthernetSettings}: java.lang.NullPointerException
    E/AndroidRuntime( 472): at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1622)
    E/AndroidRuntime( 472): at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1638)
    E/AndroidRuntime( 472): at android.app.ActivityThread.access$1500(ActivityThread.java:117)
    E/AndroidRuntime( 472): at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:928)
    E/AndroidRuntime( 472): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
    E/AndroidRuntime( 472): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123)
    E/AndroidRuntime( 472): at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:3647)
    E/AndroidRuntime( 472): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
    E/AndroidRuntime( 472): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:507)
    E/AndroidRuntime( 472): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:839)
    E/AndroidRuntime( 472): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:597)
    E/AndroidRuntime( 472): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
    E/AndroidRuntime( 472): Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
    E/AndroidRuntime( 472): at android.net.ethernet.EthernetManager.getState(EthernetManager.java:131)
    E/AndroidRuntime( 472): at com.android.settings.ethernet.EthernetEnabler.(EthernetEnabler.java:77)
    E/AndroidRuntime( 472): at com.android.settings.EthernetSettings.initToggles(EthernetSettings.java:77)
    E/AndroidRuntime( 472): at com.android.settings.EthernetSettings.onCreate(EthernetSettings.java:61)
    E/AndroidRuntime( 472): at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1047)
    E/AndroidRuntime( 472): at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1586)
    E/AndroidRuntime( 472): ... 11 more
    W/ActivityManager( 111): Force finishing activity com.android.settings/.EthernetSettings
    W/ActivityManager( 111): Force finishing activity com.android.settings/.Settings
    W/ActivityManager( 111): Activity pause timeout for HistoryRecord{407c9e68 com.android.settings/.EthernetSettings}
    V/RenderScript_jni( 316): surfaceCreated
    V/RenderScript_jni( 316): surfaceChanged

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  2. androidalloverJanuary 27, 2012 at 3:38 PM

    hi, i have the same error. have you found any solution yet. thanks.

    II

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  3. KrishnanOctober 4, 2012 at 2:57 AM

    I was able to apply the patch and I could see the Ethernet Configuration settings in Gingerbread. However,the Ethernet Setting control does not reflect update when switching interfaces. So, If I switch between eth0, eth1, or dummy0 the data displayed in the Ethernet settings control never changes and just shows the last data that was actually saved. Any ideas on this?

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