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15 years ago

DM9000A Hanging !!

Hi, has anybody encountered a similar problem ?

When I try to configure eth0, after having given eth0 a sane MAC address, the system hangs:

ifconfig eth0 up

same story with

ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.190

Thanks

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    Altera_Forum
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    Hi,

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    When I try to configure eth0, after having given eth0 a sane MAC address, the system hangs:

    ifconfig eth0 up

    same story with

    ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.190

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    At first, please check the access timing of DM9000A. When I set these values according to the Wiki's recommendation,

    
      Slave Adressing : Registers
        Units : ns
        Setup : 0
        Read Wait : 40
        Write Wait : 40
        Hold : 0
    
    the eth0 would not respond, but the system did not freeze. Now I set these values like

    
      Slave Adressing : Registers
        Units : ns
        Setup : 10
        Read Wait : 10
        Write Wait : 10
        Hold : 10
     
    with 100MHz system clock.

    Kazu