[ELDK] MPC5200 FEC Network Adapter is not initialized

[Peter Kuennemann@itb]

Thanks to all who replied,

I applied the change to CONIFG_SYS_GPS_PORT_CONFIG that Stefan mentioned and it worked.

Regards, Peter

Am 29.11.2010 16:08, schrieb Stefan Strobl:
> Hi
>
> On 11/26/2010 02:42 PM, Peter Kuennemann at itb wrote:
>> Hello,
>> i have successfully got a lite5200b board up and running with
>> uBoot and linux kernel 2.6.35.7 including JFFS and squashfs
>> file systems in flash. It boots with no problem but I am unable
>> to use the network adapter (FEC ETHERNET) from within linux.
>>
>> If I initialize the NIC from uBoot by issuing a NTP command prior
>> to the bootm, the network adapter is working.
>
> I had this problem too. In my case the problem was caused by an incorrect port multiplex configuration in U-Boot, see CONIFG_SYS_GPS_PORT_CONFIG (I use 0x xxx5xxxx, which corresponds to 10/100Mbit
> Eth with MD).
>
> When running any network command under U-Boot the function eth_init() is called which sets the port conifg correctly.
>
> Regards,
> Stefan.