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From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: Ronald Madrid <ron_madrid@hotmail.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: ifconfig MPC8313
Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 16:19:25 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4820CB5D.3000703@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BAY114-W949ADEBC809E7A60716CCF4D60@phx.gbl>

Ronald Madrid wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I am working on porting linux 2.6.25 with a custom MPC8313 based board, 
> but am having a little bit of trouble with the ethernet, more 
> specifically ifconfig.
> 
> after typing "ifconfig eth0 10.196.31.84" I receive the following error
> ifconfig: SIOCSIFFLAGS: Cannot assign requested address
> 
> after entering a MAC address via "ifconfig eth0 hw ether"  I receive 
> this error.
> e0024520:01 not found
> eth0: Could not attach to PHY
> ifconfig: SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such device

It can't find the PHY for eth0.  What does your device tree look like, 
and what is the relevant PHY address?

-Scott

  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-06 21:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-06 21:10 ifconfig MPC8313 Ronald Madrid
2008-05-06 21:19 ` Scott Wood [this message]
2008-05-06 21:24   ` Ronald Madrid
2008-05-06 21:35     ` Scott Wood
2008-05-06 21:41       ` Ronald Madrid
2008-05-06 21:43         ` Scott Wood
2008-05-06 21:56           ` Ronald Madrid
2008-05-06 22:04             ` Scott Wood
2008-05-06 22:13               ` Ronald Madrid

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