Stratix IV Dev Board with Nios II Ethernet Standard Design: No PHY connected

I am using the exact same board and configuration with Quartus II v15.0. As you said, driver for TSE is NOT included in the BSP. I was suggested in other forum (http://www.alteraforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=50537)to change to QII v12.0 for things to work.

This is ridiculous as my company has license for v15.0 and want to use other new features of QII v15.0.

I get the following Nios II console message:

InterNiche Portable TCP/IP, v3.1

Copyright 1996-2008 by InterNiche Technologies. All rights reserved.

prepped 0 interfaces, initializing...

inet setup error: unable to find any working interfaces

panic: IP

dtrap - needs breakpoint