The environment variable ethact does not, "stick" for me either, although it's not an issue for me. Look in eth.c to learn when/how it is initialized. Note the CONFIG_NET_MULTI constant (I have it defined, but I'm not sure why).
I bet you have that defined in your board header file. Take a look and see if you can get your custom ethact to stick by defining or undefining that or something. -Mike ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nidhi Dua Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 9:53 AM To: linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org Subject: u-boot, MPC8313erdb We are using the board MPC8313ERDB and we are facing problems regarding u-boot environment variables(the environment variables displayed after giving 'printenv' command at u-boot prompt). We are following the steps stated as below: 1. =>printenv output is: .... .... bootargs=root=/dev/mtdblock2 rootfstype=jffs2 rw console=ttyS0,115200 bootcmd=bootm fe100000 - fe700000 filesize=1a4a05 fileaddr=200000 ipaddr=192.168.1.101 <http://192.168.1.101/> serverip=192.168.1.57 <http://192.168.1.57/> stdin=serial stdout=serial stderr=serial ethact=TSEC0 Here ethact is TSEC0 by default. 2. =>setenv ethact TSEC1 3. =>saveenv output: Saving Environment to Flash... Un-Protected 1 sectors Erasing Flash... . done Erased 1 sectors Writing to Flash... done Protected 1 sectors Here we have set the ethact variable to TSEC1 and saved it. Now it is showing that this value of ethact is burnt in flash. But after the board is reset, 4. =>printenv ileaddr=200000 ipaddr=192.168.1.101 <http://192.168.1.101/> serverip=192.168.1.57 <http://192.168.1.57/> stdin=serial stdout=serial stderr=serial ethact=TSEC0 Here again the value of ethact is changed to TSEC0. we have following questions: question 1: We want to know the reason why it(ethact variable) changes to TSEC0 everytime with a reset. question2: After we have set ethact to TSEC1 and saved it(=>saveenv) and tried to ping the Host from u-boot prompt it is working (displaying: 'host alive'). But when we are trying to ping Target board from the host it is showing: PING 192.168.1.101 <http://192.168.1.101/> (192.168.1.101 <http://192.168.1.101/> ) 56(84) bytes of data. >From 192.168.1.57 <http://192.168.1.57/> icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable >From 192.168.1.57 <http://192.168.1.57/> icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable .... .... --- 192.168.1.101 <http://192.168.1.101/> ping statistics --- 12 packets transmitted, 0 received, +9 errors, 100% packet loss, time 11002ms , pipe 3 Why is it happening so? question 3: After we have set 'ethact' to TSEC1, the kernel is loaded, and we have logged -in, when we try to ping the Host from target it says '100% packet lost'. also we are unable to ping target from the host. Why is it happening so? Awaiting a prompt reply Regards Nidhi Dua
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