I’m not sure about the ethtool command that you need to execute in order to get PoE working (after a quick search I found that this is a workaround).
To answer your other question, the LoRa Gateway OS uses a read-only filesystem by default and writes changes to the /data partition (using an OverlayFS).
Hi , @brocaar thanks for your answer, i was curious which was your base distribution for this gateway os ?
as there is so apt, yum package available.
i tried apt, aptitude, dpkg, yum, rpm, packman, apk, no joy. there is no gcc, g++, make etc…, i start wondering if there is any way to install anything on it Because without this ethtool installed, i won’t simply be able to use it anymore
its strange you need to do this as the Ethernet port should be working as normal. I designed and built my own PoE power supply on a Pi3B+ and RAK831 and it works as standard.
Could you describe the PoE Splitter you are using.
Any idea if it’s the PoE splitter causing the problem with eth0
Seems that is a classic workaround to get PI 3 B+ to work with such splitter as i see this trick around internet quite a few times, especially on comments from amazon buyers
What you probably want (/ need) to do is build your own LoRa Gateway OS image. You can see the Gateway OS as a distribution on its own, it is built from scratch using the Yocto project.