7i96s board not detected

Hello,

After 20 days of wait finally I received my first MESA 7i96s board. I connected it to Raspberry pi using ethernet cable. It needs 5v supply, I provided the same though Pi board.

Its showing Power LED on, but the DONE (CR7) LED is also ON (Red color). As per 7i96s manual, it should be OFF else there is problem with configuration of FPGA.

I am unable to ping the board. I have set the Jumper W5 Up and W4 Down. So expecting it to work on 10.10.10.10. However sudo ifconfig also not detecting the ethernet. I am expecting here IP address to be seen. 

eth0: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        ether e4:5f:01:9d:24:22  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

I have not installed hostmot2, but tried copying the available libraries from mesanet to /lib/firmware/hm2

I am actually lost. Is there any step by step guide that I am missing?

Please help, what am I missing.

Thank you
Vandana

You need to manually configure the IP address. For temporary testing the "ip" tool works great:
Once it's working you need to figure out how to set up a static ip address on your distro (edit: to make it permanent).

"Its showing Power LED on, but the DONE (CR7) LED is also ON (Red color). As per 7i96s manual, it should be OFF else there is problem with configuration of FPGA."

If you have a red LED on _after_ power up, there is a FPGA configuration issue.

I would first check that your 5V power supply is adequate as a marginal power supply can cause this issue.

I am using the preemot RT kernel but not by using the given iso, as it doesn't work on Raspberry pi 4B, 8GB.

So I downloaded from one of the forum thread. which works for me
I cross checked the kernel version is its Linux 5.10.74-rt54-v8+ #1 SMP PREEMPT_RT Fri Oct 22 10:15:42 PDT 2021

Do I need to change? Please suggest.

I just copied pasted the command without observing that its adding address 10.10.10.11 instead of 10.10.10.10, which is the default IP address on EEPROM.

However it got added and I could ping to 10.10.10.11 now..

Now I want to understand on how can I be confirmed if its really pinging the board as the address is different..

I cross checked the power supply and on multi-meter its showing 5.09V - 5.1V. Hope this will not cause issue... I mean little more than required..

"However it got added and I could ping to 10.10.10.11 now.."

If you are pinging 10.10.10.11 you are pinging the RPI, not the 7I96s (at 10.10.10.10)

If you still have a red light after power up, there is still a start up issue with the card

vkhargwanshi wrote:

I just copied pasted the command without observing that its adding address 10.10.10.11 instead of 10.10.10.10, which is the default IP address on EEPROM.

However it got added and I could ping to 10.10.10.11 now..

Your computer needs a different IP address than the 7i96S. So the command to add 10.10.10.11 to eth0 is correct. To check if the 7i96S is responding you need to ping 10.10.10.10 though. If you ping 10.10.10.11 you are just pinging localhost (the computer itself).

Edit: PCW beat me to it