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From: Michael Riesch <michael@riesch.at>
Subject: Re: SMSC 8720a/MDIO/PHY help.
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 23:19:24 +0200
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> If you have an idea of something for me to try, I'd love to entertain
> it.

I am rather new to PHYLIB, but these are my ideas:

 1) make sure phy_connect is executed (AFIAK called by MDIO bus driver)

 2) maybe you need to call phy_start / phy_stop (AFAIK from the PHY
driver's open / close function)

HTH,
Michael