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18 years ago

TSE MAC and Marvell 88E1111

I'm having trouble to bring up the TSE MAC to Ethernet interface on the Stratix II GX PCIe board. I was able to instantiate a triple speed Ethernet MAC and build logic around it. The loopback at the ...
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16 years ago

Good day.

I have a problem with NicheStack and a PHY.

I am using the 3sl150 Stratix III based devkit. As I am a beginner, I am using NIOS II standard design that comes with the board. As I tried to launch the Simple Socket Server (SSS) application, it could not allocate the PHY (the board's PHY is Marvell 88E1111 that is supported by the driver by default, as it is written in the documentation) and came up with the error:

[tse_mac_init]

INFO : TSE MAC 0 found at address 0x00001400

ERROR : MAC Group[0] - No PHY connected!

ERROR : PHY[0.0] - No PHY connected! Speed = 100, Duplex = Full

OK, x=401, CMD_CONFIG=0x00000000

The design uses Triple Speed Ethernet in RGMII mode for networking.

There are no other MAC interfaces (like lan91c111) in the design.

What can be wrong?