Kenneth Johansson wrote: > > The saga continues. > > Well some of the problems I had was of the brown paperbag over head kind of > error but now I can boot and run a version checked out a few hours ago. > > But the ethernet reporting of the line is wrong. This is a problem with the > printout only as the function is right. The 100Mb full duplex is reported to > be 10Mb half and vise verse. > > I have not run the walnut hardware for some time but I still have a quite > severe problem with ethernet in 10Mb. > > What happens is this if I connect to a 3com 10Mb hub that is connected to the > office net (cisco switch) the switch turns off the port after some time > mostly when I run apt-get. Since the walnut card is never directly connected > to the switch this must be some logical error in packets probably the > intergap time is to small that is the only thing I can think of as the switch > only care about the ethernet layer. > > This problem could maybee exist if I directly connect to the switch I have > not done that and no I can not test this easy as I don't control the switch > and now only have 1 working port in that room and it is really needed. > > -- > Kenneth Johansson > Ericsson Business Innovation AB Tel: +46 8 404 71 83 > Vider?gatan 3 Fax: +46 8 404 72 72 > 164 80 Stockholm kenneth.johansson at inn.ericsson.se
Kenneth; I finally got arround to looking into this and the problem is the status. We use the status to program the emac to the same speed as the PHY. I have attach a patch the should correct this. -- armin -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: 405_enet_1114.patch.gz Type: application/octet-stream Size: 2775 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-embedded/attachments/20011114/dd2dadab/attachment.obj
