Pine A64+ Gigabit issue...

[rhkean]

I would give the 3.5A PSU a try first (Pine64 won't exceed 1A with normal 'workloads' but the real problem are voltage drops mostly caused by USB cables with insufficient gauge ratings -- never try anything above AWG 20)

Well that didn't fix it.
This is the power supply:  http://www.amazon.com/Extra-Charger-HP-C...B00OPEW1I6

this is the what I did (on gigabit):
* new ubuntu image
* log in as ubuntu
* sudo su -
* apt-get update
* 20 minutes later, It's still on Hit 6 of 8.

this is the what I did (on 100mbps):
* new ubuntu image
* log in as ubuntu
* sudo su -
* apt-get update
* 8 hits, 15 seconds or so...


I'm not sure that I have any decent, non-usb wall warts lying around that I can use for power...

Have you run the kernel and uboot update scripts?

ummm... no.  that would be redundant.

Simon's pine64_update_uboot.sh script just downloads the simpleimage-pine64-latest.img.xz, pulls out the boot0 and uboot sections and writes them to the uSD card.  since that file (dated 2016/04/23) is the same one that was used to create the xenial-pine64-bsbkernel-20160424.img.xz (dated 2016/04/24) Ubuntu img, then this script (IN THIS INSTANCE) wouldn't be changing anything on the uSD card.

The same thing applies to the kernel script.

both his latest kernel and uboot image were used to build his lates ubuntu image.


UPDATE:  ran both to confirm:
also verified that the fix_whatever hasn't changed.  It hasn't.  It only updates the alsa issue.

Code:

[sudo] password for ubuntu:
root@localhost:~# bash <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/longsleep/build-pine64-image/master/simpleimage/platform-scripts/pine64_update_uboot.sh)
Checking for update ...
You are already on the latest version - no update required.
root@localhost:~# bash <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/longsleep/build-pine64-image/master/simpleimage/platform-scripts/pine64_update_kernel.sh)
Checking for update ...
You are already on the latest version - no update required.
root@localhost:~# bash <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/longsleep/build-pine64-image/master/simpleimage/platform-scripts/pine64_fix_whatever.sh)
Applying various fixes ...
Done.
root@localhost:~#