[oe] How to modify /etc/network/interfaces file in a OE recipe

[Gary Thomas]

On 10/07/2010 03:11 PM, Elvis Dowson wrote:
> Hi,
>         Would someone be able to help me with modifying an omap3-console-image recipe, such that in the final image, the /etc/network/interfaces file gets edited as follows
>
> #auto eth0				<- remove # sign ( auto eth0 )
> #iface eth0 inet dhcp		<- remove # sign ( iface eth0 inet dhcp )
> #iface eth1 inet dhcp
>
> I am using a Gumstix Overo + Chestnut43 expansion board, which has an inbuilt wired ethernet interface. I have to make this modification manually, to enable this interface each time. However, if I can modify the OE recipe somehow to do this it would be great. I know it can be done, but I don't know where to start and which file to modify.

Add the file the way you like it to .../openembedded/recipes/netbase/netbase/overo
and rebuild netbase.  Use the beagleboard as an example.

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