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17 years ago

DE2 Ethernet Primitive Solution

With the DE2 board, the Ethernet controller does not seem to work in Quartus II 8.0 or 8.1. There are several problems with the DE2_NET demonstration; it was built pre-7.1, the software driver does n...
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17 years ago

Hi Adam.

I don´t think that is a solution for the problem.

One, because you get a very slow transfer data rate after that.

And another curious thing, is that I get the DE2_NET working fine with a loop pack (like the DE2 manual example), without re initializing the DM9000.

Although is correct that initializing the DM9000 you can get it working, it is not very usefull, should be something missing more, to avoid the init() routine each time to recieve a packet.

Just a thought.