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16 years ago

Auto-Negotiation FAILED with TSEMAC and PHY Marvell 88E1111

I'm trying to check single socket example in a Cyclone III EP3c40.

I've configured in SOPC in both case:

as 10/100/1000Mbps Ethernet Only

as 1000Mbps Small MAC

result was always the same 


nios2-terminal: connected to hardware target using JTAG UART on cable
nios2-terminal: "USB-Blaster ", device 1, instance 0
nios2-terminal: (Use the IDE stop button or Ctrl-C to terminate)
=============== Software License Reminder ================
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Network Stack - Nios II Edition. If you want to ship resulting object
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Altera. For information go to: "http://www.altera.com/nichestack"
=====================================================
InterNiche Portable TCP/IP, v3.1 
Copyright 1996-2007 by InterNiche Technologies. All rights reserved. 
prep_tse_mac 0
Your Ethernet MAC address is 00:07:ed:ff:be:f8
Static IP Address is 192.168.10.11
prepped 1 interface, initializing...
SGDMA desc memory cleared 
INFO    : TSE MAC 0 found at address 0x0c403800
INFO    : PHY Marvell 88E1111 found at PHY address 0x01 of MAC Group
INFO    : PHY - Automatically mapped to tse_mac_device
INFO    : PHY - Restart Auto-Negotiation, checking PHY link...
WARNING : PHY - Auto-Negotiation FAILED
INFO    : Applying additional PHY configuration of Marvell 88E1111
MARVELL : Enabling auto crossover
MARVELL : PHY reset
INFO    : PHY - Checking link...
INFO    : PHY - Link not yet established, restart auto-negotiation...
INFO    : PHY - Restart Auto-Negotiation, checking PHY link...
WARNING : PHY - Auto-Negotiation FAILED
WARNING : PHY - Link could not established
ERROR   : PHY - Auto-Negotiation not completed! Gigabit = 0, Duplex = Full
OK, x=0, CMD_CONFIG=0x00000000
MAC post-initialization: CMD_CONFIG=0x04000203
 RX descriptor chain desc (1 depth) created
IP address of et1 : 192.168.10.11
Created "Inet main" task (Prio: 2)
Created "clock tick" task (Prio: 3)
Simple Socket Server starting up
Socket server created
bind socket server ok
Socket Tx created
listening to UDP port...
Created "simple socket server" task (Prio: 4)

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  • Altera_Forum's avatar
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    16 years ago

    What kind of hardware do you have? Is it a development kit or a custom board? What do you connect at the other end?

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    16 years ago

    I'm using a commercial board from dev_boards Gmbh. Cyclone III ep3c40 + SDRAM + SSRAM + Flash + Marvell Phy

    I've configured TSE_MAC in SOPC builder using two SGDMA's
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    16 years ago

    I'm using a commercial board from dev_boards Gmbh. Cyclone III ep3c40 + SDRAM + SSRAM + Flash + Marvell Phy

    I've configured TSE_MAC in SOPC builder using two SGDMA's
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    16 years ago

    And what did you connect at the other end of the ethernet cable? Is it capable of auto-negotiation?

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    16 years ago

    I have Cyclone III NiosII Evaluation kit (neek board) running fine, this board has a 10/100Phy.

    My actual board has a Marvell Gbit Phy and I want to configure it for running simple socket server application as I did in the other board.
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    16 years ago

    But do you connect the two boards together, or do you connect them to a PC?

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    16 years ago

    obviously I always connect a board to a host computer using cross crossing ethernet cable

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    16 years ago

    there are some things you can check:

    -the MDIO communication with the PHY is working correctly? I suppose yes, otherwise it wouldnt recognize your Marvell PHY.

    -the clock signals you use with both mac and phy are with the correct freq?

    -your host PC NIC is able to auto-negotiate? maybe it worked with the 10/100, because these ones normally dont use autonegotiation.

    - I wouldnt use the 1000 Small MAC config. in the TSE, because this way your are telling him only to connect if there is a Gigabit available on the other side, and it is probable that your PC dont have it
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    16 years ago

    Does the PC say anything about the LAN interface status?

    If you can connect an oscilloscope to the LAN connector, you can also check if you see any sync pulses going on the lines.
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    16 years ago

    Status of LAN is :

    State: On

    Speed: 1Gbps

    Packet sent: 36

    Packet received:1