Re: [ECOS] networking on redboot

[Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc dot com>]

Atilay Yilmaz wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Atilay Yilmaz <atiyil@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com> wrote:
>>> Atilay Yilmaz wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com> wrote:
>>>>> Atilay Yilmaz wrote:
>>>>>> On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> Please don't top-post :-(
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ATILAY YILMAZ wrote:
>>>>>>>> Thanks for quick reply:) it is an ertec400 board. it has 4 ethernet
>>>>>>>> ports and it looks functional since the LEDs are on. however, there is
>>>>>>>> another ethernet controller which is SMSC91C111 as a debug port. this
>>>>>>>> one doesn't work, no LED action, no link up. the ethernet driver for
>>>>>>>> SMSC91C111 is included in ecos packages, I can see that in ecc file.
>>>>>>>> however, I am not sure it is also being used by redboot binary. how
>>>>>>>> can I make sure of that?
>>>>>>> Check the CDL?
>>>>>>> Look in the build directory to see if the driver for that device actually
>>>>>>> was built?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Note: because of the way 'fconfig' works, once you succeed in getting
>>>>>>> this driver to build, you'll want to run 'fconfig -i' to reinitialize
>>>>>>> the database.  Only then will the options to set the ESA be present.
>>>>>>> The driver should work with a fallback ESA until then though.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> ATILAY YILMAZ wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> does anybody help me about starting networking on redboot? I use an arm9 cpu
>>>>>>>>>> I guess I need to set MAC address, but it doesn't appear on fconfig
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> here is my current config on redboot:
>>>>>>>>>> RedBoot> fis list
>>>>>>>>>> Name              FLASH addr  Mem addr    Length      Entry point
>>>>>>>>>> RedBoot           0x30000000  0x30000000  0x00040000  0x00000000
>>>>>>>>>> FIS directory     0x303F0000  0x303F0000  0x0000F000  0x00000000
>>>>>>>>>> RedBoot config    0x303FF000  0x303FF000  0x00001000  0x00000000
>>>>>>>>>> RedBoot> fconfig
>>>>>>>>>> Run script at boot: false
>>>>>>>>>> Use BOOTP for network configuration: false
>>>>>>>>>> Gateway IP address:
>>>>>>>>>> Local IP address: 192.168.3.17
>>>>>>>>>> Local IP address mask: 255.255.255.0
>>>>>>>>>> Default server IP address: 192.168.3.18
>>>>>>>>>> DNS domain name: <Not a string: 0x23FEF2F5>
>>>>>>>>>> DNS server IP address:
>>>>>>>>>> GDB connection port: 9000
>>>>>>>>>> Force console for special debug messages: false
>>>>>>>>>> Network debug at boot time: true
>>>>>>>>>> RedBoot>
>>>>>>>>> Whether or not the ESA shows up in 'fconfig' depends on the driver.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> What's the platform?  network driver?
>>>>>>> --
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>>>>>>> Gary Thomas                 |  Consulting for the
>>>>>>> MLB Associates              |    Embedded world
>>>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> well, cdl for driver (CYGPKG_DEVS_ETH_ARM_ERTEC) is
>>>>>> \ecos\packages\devs\eth\arm\ertec\current\cdl\ertec_eth_drivers.cdl
>>>>>> and also CYGPKG_DEVS_ETH_ARM_ERTEC exists in ecos.db.  the c file is
>>>>>> under \ecos\packages\devs\eth\arm\ertec\current\src. however, it is
>>>>>> not built under  \ECOS\EB400_build\devs\eth\arm\ertec\current\ (this
>>>>>> is my location for eclipse project). what may be the reason for that?
>>>>> Look in 'ecos.ecc' - it will tell you why
>>>>>
>>>> Thanks, I found the reason, it compiles now:)
>>>>
>>> Care to share - that way the mailing list archives may be able
>>> to help the next person with a similar problem :-)
>>>
>> there is a option (CYGDAT_USE_LSA_ETHERNET) in ecc file and
>> CYGPKG_DEVS_ETH_ARM_ERTEC requires that option as false. After that,
>> the driver compiled but unfortunately it wasn't for SMSC91C111.
>> therefore I am still working on it:)
>>
> Hi again,
> finally I compiled driver for SMSC91C111 successfully. I also modified
> \ecos\packages\devs\eth\arm\ertec\current\include\devs_eth_arm_ertec.inl
> and \ecos\packages\devs\eth\arm\ertec\current\cdl\ertec_eth_drivers.cdl
> files to define SMSC91C111 definitions/functions for ertec board.
> however, still I get:
> smsc_lan91cxx_init: No 91Cxx signature found
> No network interfaces found
> When I run redboot.bin. what do you think the reason may be?

Go to the SMSC driver and print out what it found for the
signature.  The problem will probably be obvious from that.


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