[ECOS] N00blet question on networking

Chuck McManis ecos@mcmanis.com
Fri Feb 23 02:43:00 GMT 2007


At 04:04 AM 2/22/2007, Gary Thomas wrote:
The most likely cause is not getting interrupts from your
>ethernet card.  RedBoot doesn't use them but eCos requires
>that they work.
>
>Try putting some 'diag_printf()' calls in the ethernet driver to
>see what's happening.

Aye, that I've been doing and sure enough no Rx interrupts. I see the 
transmit interrupts but not the receive ones ... hmmm.

--Chuck


>Note: at this point, it's best to access RedBoot via the serial port
>and leave network based debugging for later.


Sigh :-) I so wish this weren't the case but I understand why it is.



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