[U-Boot-Users] serial download of uImage

[himbA]

Stephan Linz wrote:

>Am Montag,  9. Februar 2004 01:29 schrieb himbA:
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>>Hi
>>I'm a newbie to u-boot and pretty much to embedded systems.
>>I have a pxa255 board running 2.4.19 kernel with appropriate patches for
>>ARM and xscale and u-boot 1.0.1 as bootloader already installed by
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>You should use the latest U-Boot version from CVS (1.0.2 or so), bacause 
>around 1.0.1 there was an signed/unsigned problem inside U-Boot's LAN91c111 
>driver --> result: ethernet doesn't work with full MAC range. In current CVS 
>state this problem is fixed already.
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will do so.

>>somebody else (I just got the stuff).
>>Now, ethernet link is not working yet, due to some issues with SMSC
>>LAN91c111 driver for linux, so I would like to use serial link to
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>What do you mean? Is the ethernet not workung under Linux or U-Boot ?
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it was not working under linux, u-boot recognised it later due to some 
modifications in my host firewall. I kinda forgot to enable access to 
third sub-net since I addedd new NIC to use for communicating with 
devel. board :).
now it is downloading images right of the tftp server with no sweat.

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thanx,

rgds,himba