[U-Boot-Users] IXP425 ethernet & NPE microcode

[Jonathan Pratt]

Thanks.

For future reference, the ethernet mac id (ethaddr) needed to be set...

Jonathan Pratt
Senior Development Engineer
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stefan Roese [mailto:sr at denx.de] 
> Sent: Wednesday, 9 May 2007 7:53 PM
> To: u-boot-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Cc: Jonathan Pratt
> Subject: Re: [U-Boot-Users] IXP425 ethernet & NPE microcode
> 
> Hi Jonathan,
> 
> On Wednesday 09 May 2007, Jonathan Pratt wrote:
> > I have a IXP425 (IXDPG425 dev board) running u-boot [yay!] 
> but I get 
> > the message 'No Ethernet Found' in the start up sequence. I 
> would like 
> > to get ethernet working but I have been unable to find out what I 
> > should do so it happens.
> >
> > When I used a pristine copy of u-boot, it wouldn't build for this 
> > target (couldn't make .depend in the cpu/ixp/npe directory or 
> > something similar). Since I had been building (snapgear) 
> Linux using 
> > the Intel Open Access Library I copied IxNpeMicrocode.c from 
> > IPL_ixp400NpeLibrary-2_0.zip [ie version 2.0 of the NPE 
> Library] into 
> > the cpu/ixp/npe directory. Admittedly this was just a guess 
> as to what 
> > to do. U-boot now builds OK for this target, and I now have it 
> > running, but without ethernet.
> >
> > Is there some doco somewhere that explains what to do next, or does 
> > someone have some insights to offer?
> 
> Did you set the "ethaddr" environment variable? If not, 
> please do and reset the board after saving it. Could be that 
> the driver only enables the interfaces when ethXaddr is set.
> 
> Best regards,
> Stefan
> 
> =====================================================================
> DENX Software Engineering GmbH, HRB 165235 Munich, CEO: Wolfgang Denk
> Office:  Kirchenstr. 5,       D-82194 Groebenzell,            Germany
> =====================================================================
> 
> 
> 
>