From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: "Xiaogeng (Shawn) Jin" <xjin@redswitch.com>
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: LXT972 FEC problem on MPC855 
From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
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Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 20:27:02 +0200
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In message <3D6A6D9D.20404@redswitch.com> you wrote:
>
> > After running ppcboot on our board successfully (including the fast
> > ethernet LXT972), we have trouble on enabling FEC on linux kernel. The
> > problem is that we cannot send any packets through the network after the
> > kernel is booted. The ethernet looks OK during initialization according
> > to the printed messages. We are trying to locate the problem but haven't
> > found yet so far. Any hints on what caused such problem?
...
> eth0: config: auto-negotiation on, 100FDX, 100HDX, 10FDX, 10HDX.
> IP-Config: Incomplete network configuration information.

You are passing bad/insufficient boot arguments to the Linux  kernel;
unfortunaltely you don;t show us this part of the boot messages, so I
cannot even guess what you're doing wrong.

Wolfgang Denk

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