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12 years ago

Ethernet on Bemicro SDK

I'm trying to port the standard net example onto the BeMicroSDK which uses the DP83848C PHY. To keep it simple, I've disabled DHCP and hard-coded a Static IP for now. Everything seems to synth...
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12 years ago

Regarding cables, the problem could also be something like your host PC ethernet adapter had been configured to not auto-negotiate (for example, if you had previously set it to operate only in gigabit modes). This also is easy enough to confirm/deny with a switch.

Regarding packet storage, the software uses malloc() etc. to allocate packet storage space from the heap.