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17 years ago

Ethernet on NEEK

I am running with the "video" example that has the Altera TSE MAC on Nios II Embedded Evaluation Kit (NEEK). I have enabled National PHY support in my kernel, and the TSE MAC support as well. At boot...
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17 years ago

Forgot to mention, networking does work on the NEEK using the EXPERIMENTAL driver instead of the Altera SLS one.

Some progress to get the Altera driver working:

Can set the MAC address manually using:

ifconfig eth0 hw ether <address>

I got the address by using the other driver.

It then still gives an error initializing the PHY because the driver is using the wrong MDIO address for it. I hardcoded it to get it working. Change linux2.6/drivers/net/altera_tse.c line 853 from snprintf(phy_id, BUS_ID_SIZE, PHY_ID_FMT, mii_id, tse_config->phy_addr);

to:

snprintf(phy_id, BUS_ID_SIZE, PHY_ID_FMT, mii_id, 1);