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Re: Ethernet on redboot
- From: Gary Thomas <gthomas at redhat dot com>
- To: Daniel dot Andersson at combitechsystems dot com
- Cc: eCos Discussion <ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: 11 Dec 2001 10:35:04 -0700
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] Ethernet on redboot
- References: <2253171AF143D21185A60000F8FA748B02DA513F@pluto.combitech.se>
On Tue, 2001-12-11 at 09:56, Daniel.Andersson@combitechsystems.com
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am currently porting redboot to a board called TQM850 and have used the
> existing MBX860 port as a base.
>
> Right now i am working with the ethernet part and i don't seem to get ping
> to work - not even the default ip works: "ping -h 127.0.0.1". What can be
> the problem here?
RedBoot does not support a loopback interface (this doesn't make much
sense for a bootstrap loader).
What happens if you turn on network debugging? You can do this via
'fconfig' or just hard-wire it in redboot/src/net/net_io.c