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Re: AT91RM9200DK Ethernet initialisation: msg#00037

Subject: Re: AT91RM9200DK Ethernet initialisation
In message <1070908367.27589.58.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
          Andrew Victor <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I would guess that u-boot is not setting the ethernet MAC address in the
> EMAC_SA registers.  The Linux driver will refuse to open the device if
> it does not have a valid MAC address.
> 
> You can verify this by looking at the boot messages.  It probably shows:
>  eth0: AT91 ethernet at 0xfefbc000 int=24 100-FullDuplex (00:00:00:00:00:00)

Yes, this is quite correct.  I'll devise a work around for the time
being.  However, when it does set an address, it's not terribly
helpful: 00:00:00:00:ff:01

Either the orignal has been lost from flash, or it's just looking in
the wrong place.


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