Arduino Ethernet no network connection(toolchain problem on amd64 linux)

[Anaximander]

Finally it seems I was able to get a working toolchain on gentoo/AMD64:

• emerge crossdev script 20120305
• applied patch to /usr/bin/crossdev from 377039 – sys-devel/crossdev-20110705: crossdev -t avr produces broken toolchain: cannot find crtm1280.o, skipping incompatible libm.a when searching for -lm comment 30
• used older version of binutils since newest version has a bug: crossdev -t avr --b 2.20.1
• fixed ldscripts: ln -s /usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/avr/lib/ldscripts /usr/libexec/gcc/avr/ldscripts
• fixed error with prog_char described here: Google Code Archive - Long-term storage for Google Code Project Hosting.

Now I was able to compile and run blink and DhcpAdressPrinter

I will do some more tests the next few days and report back if this toolchain can be considered stable.

Thanks again to all who tried to help

[SurferTim]

Insure you report any performance improvements to the Gentoo crew. Does Gentoo have a repository or just a package library?

Debian and Ubuntu suffered from this same kind of stuff. It can be fixed.

[Anaximander]

Sadly, all infos I used are already reported bugs
What do you mean with performance improvement ?

greetings

[SurferTim]

What I mean by "performance improvement" is going from "not working" to "working". I call that an improvement.

If they are all reported bugs, why does Gentoo have problems with them? Where are you getting the buggy avr toolchain? Is it from the Gentoo repository?

edit: The Ubuntu package manager will insure your install has the recent avr toolchain. That prevents problems like that. There is no "./configure" and "MAKE", just install from the GUI package manager.

[Anaximander]

Hm good question. the toolchain builder is the one from the repository and it's fetching recent versions of avr* packages. I'm not informed enough to make any guesses why it isn't fixed yet...