[U-Boot-Users] Passing IP address to kernel

[Wolfgang Denk]

In message <110.49487932.2fac135e at aol.com> you wrote:
> Should U-Boot be able to pass the board's IP address to the kernel?

Yes, of course - as part  of  the  "ip="  boot  argument,  using  the
kernel's IP autoconfiguration meachnism.

> Immediately after logging in, I cannot ping.  ifconfig shows the correct 
> hardware address that was set in U-Boot, but not the IP address, which was 
> similarly set in U-Boot.  Also, many of the statistical fields have garbage data in 
> them (see below).  If I then set the IP address, ifconfig returns the IP 
> address and the other fields are correct.  Then, I can ping.

Unfortunately you don't provide any information about your  hardware,
kernel  configuration(IP  autoconfiguration enabled?) and kernel boot
arguments ("ip=" passed?). Your kernel may be  misconfigured,  and/or
you  may  be  passing  bad  or insufficient boot arguments. Also, the
garbage data in the  ifconfig  output  suggests  that  your  ethernet
driver in Linux is somewhat crappy.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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