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Altera_Forum
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15 years agoHi Guys,
I am really struggling with what seems to be the same problem you experienced. Being a hardware guy with a small amount of software experience ... all I need to do is get the example working on the Altera ep3C120 development board to get approval to use my design. I have pulled my hair out for two weeks, signal tapped and proven that the phy is passing correct packets to the mac ... and seen that the right statistics are being recorded by the MAC. I have never seen the TX LED light up. Actually that may be a lie because I forced the phy into packet generation mode and was capturing packets with wireshark - the tx led may have gone then. What exactly do I need to do to get this board simplesocketserver example going? I suspect (but lack the reverse softwarer engineering skills to prove) that this might be something to do with the way the phy is addressed...? My thinking is the phy address on this board is 0x12 yet there is only one phy...? Any advice would be good ... the addr1 vs addr0 statement confuses me, and I am not really sure where I should set my phy up in the code anyway ... should I add another 88E1111 to the default list as the comments in the code suggest? Any advice would be appreciated ... I am going nuts here!