How to debug Ethernet connectivity

[Atilla Filiz]

My problem is, /dev/phy0 never appears when I give the correct phy address.

Unable to find a PHY (unknown ID?)
dhcp failed: I/O error
dhcp: I/O error

Also, fec_probe function for fec_imx driver never gets called.
Ironically, I do not get an I/O error when I give the wrong phy
address. Still nothing gets detected and no device node appears, but
ethernet works(by forcing the line detect functions to return 0).


I will talk to the hardware guys to verify the pin muxing and phy address.

On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 6:46 PM, Alexander Aring <alex.aring at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 07:24:40PM +0400, Antony Pavlov wrote:
>> On Tue, 10 Dec 2013 14:31:23 +0100
>> Atilla Filiz <atilla.filiz at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Ok, then my problem is slightly more clear, that /dev/phy0 does not exist.
>> > I do define a struct fec_platform_data with
>> > xcv_type=PHY_INTERFACE_MODE_MII and register it via imx27_add_fec().
>> >
>> > Now I need to find out why it fails to register the device.
>>
>> There is issue with current barebox.
>>
>> The /dev/phy0 device is unavailable till you use network.
>> You can use this (ugly!) way
>>   So just after boot type 'dhcp', next type 'ctrl-c' to interrupt dhcp and check /dev/phy0 presence.
>>
> mh, bad... :( Maybe just try a ping instead of dhcp to bring /dev/phy0
> alive. But that's a ugly hack, too.
>
> Is there no some global(var/env) to enable it?
>
> - Alex



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Atilla Filiz