Network access - blackwine/Main_MiSTer GitHub Wiki

MiSTer board can be access through on-board Ethernet port. System has FTP, SSH, SFTP services running.

User name: root Password: 1

When using FTP, make sure your file transfers are in Binary not ASCII. ASCII-type transfers will result in corruption of that data. A good FTP client for Windows that defaults to Binary and supports FTP as well as SFTP and SCP (ssh copy) is WinSCP.

By default, DHCP is used to acquire an IP address for the board. You can find it from your router (easier way), or from console connected to the board using the command ifconfig

The default MAC address for the on-board Ethernet port is 02:03:04:05:06:07. Please consider this when connecting more than one MiSTer board via the on-board Ethernet port to your network.

TODO: How to setup a custom MAC address.

Setting up a static IP address

Currently the best way to do this is using connmanctl (try connmanctl help for more info).

  • Create /var/lib/connman directory so changes will persist across reboots
# mkdir /var/lib/connman
  • Find your on-board network service name.
# connmanctl services
*AO Wired                ethernet_020304050607_cable
  • Setup IP address (e.g. 192.168.1.123, should be unused), subnet mask (e.g. 255.255.255.0) and gateway (e.g. 192.168.1.1, typically your router IP address). To configure the right device use the service name returned from above command (e.g. ethernet_020304050607_cable). This will disable the use of DHCP.
# connmanctl config ethernet_020304050607_cable --ipv4 manual 192.168.1.123 255.255.255.0 192.168.1.1
  • Setup one or more DNS server(s) (e.g. 192.168.1.1 from your router, 8.8.8.8 from Google DNS.
# connmanctl config ethernet_020304050607_cable --nameservers 192.168.1.1 8.8.8.8

You can write a script to help with typing and remembering your settings.

You can also setup your on-board network connection by editing /etc/network/interfaces. This is currently not advised. Because if you have a DHCP server in your network, the network stack will still contact the DHCP server and assign the returned IP address regardless, leading to usually unwanted behavior.

(Re)Enabling DHCP

# connmanctl config ethernet_020304050607_cable --dhcp

Other

mc (midnight commander) file manager is available for easier folder navigation.

The root of SD card: /media/fat

Related: Serial Console Access