Re: FEC driver: rcv is not +last

[Matthias Kaehlcke <matthias@kaehlcke.net>]

El Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 03:20:33PM +0200 Sascha Hauer ha dit:

> On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 12:40:33PM +0200, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote:
> > hi,
> > 
> > i have problems with the FEC on a i.MX25 3-Stack board. the kernel is
> > v2.6.34-rc2 plus the following patch:
> > http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/41235/
> > 
> > the following traces are generated at boot time:
> > 
> > FEC Ethernet Driver
> > fec: PHY @ 0x1, ID 0x20005ce1 -- unknown PHY!
> > ...
> > eth0: config: auto-negotiation on, 100FDX, 100HDX, 10FDX, 10HDX.
> > ...
> > FEC ENET: rcv is not +last
> > FEC ENET: rcv is not +last
> > FEC ENET: rcv is not +last
> > FEC ENET: rcv is not +last
> > ...
> 
> No idea, I have never seen this message. Does the controller work
> besides these messages?

nope

> > the PHY of the board is a DP83840, which is not supported by the
> > driver. could this be the problem? i tried to make the kernel think
> > the DP83840 is a DP83848, which is supported, but the behaviour is the
> > same except the 'unknown PHY' warning.
> 
> This should be solved by the phylib patches recently posted for the fec
> driver.

thanks for the pointer!

i just applied the patch. it actually makes the 'unkown PHY' and even
the 'FEC ENET: rcv is not +last' messages disappear, but networking
still doesn't work

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