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16 years ago

Altera TSE support (EXPERIMENTAL) + GMII ??

Hi all, I was wondering which interface we must use between the TSE MAC and the PHY when the following option is selected in "make menuconfig" : [*] altera tripple speed ethernet support...
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16 years ago

Actually, I'm not sure about this, ethtool disagrees: 

root:/> ethtool eth0
Settings for eth0:
        Supported ports: 
        Supported link modes:   10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                                100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
                                1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full
        Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
        Advertised link modes:  10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                                100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
                                1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full
        Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
        Speed: 1000Mb/s
        Duplex: Full
        Port: MII
        PHYAD: 1
        Transceiver: external
        Auto-negotiation: on
        Current message level: 0x00000000 (0)
        Link detected: yes

Also it only seems to work when actually connected to a gigabit switch. I thought this was because of some debugging I was doing to try to get gigabit to work right, but I took that out and it's still broken.