Honored Contributor
Honored ContributorJust a couple of responses to your questions.
Congratulations "cafukarfoo". You are definately are on the right track. The fact your DE2 board is acquiring an IP over DHCP means the ethernet connection is up and operational. Remember...you can only telnet into the board when a server socket is setup and listening on a particular protocol/port. Try testing your SSS by pinging the DE2 board. If the board reply's to a ICMP packet (ping), then everthing is working and ready for you to implement socket comms. Well done also to "shenlung". I believe you can access the link status through a memory register on the Davicom DM9000A controller device. You will need to check the datasheet and modify the ethernet driver accordingly. A few notes also to those who have asked: - Yes, project was build on Quartus Web edition. - Once running, found the SSS to be extremely stable. Wrote a C library to facilitate socket comms between the DE2 and a Win32 console app. Found the link to be stable and capable of transferring a large amount of data between the DE2<-->PC with no errors.
