imx28evk and eth1

CH1z · ‎11-01-2011

Hello all-

I'm using the i.MX28EVK, and I'm having a hard time bringing up the second NIC consistently. I initially ran into this was the ltib build I made, but then I grabbed the included Linux SD card, and it results in the same behavior. The frustrating thing is that every 4-5 boots or so it works (using the reference image), but the rest of the time it doesn't. When it doesn't work, I get the following in the serial session (from the reference image marked "MX28EVK Linux 110-77224 Rev c"):

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eth1: Freescale FEC PHY driver [Generic PHY] (mii_bus:phy_addr=0:01, irq=-1)
PHY: 0:01 - Link is Up - 100/Full
PHY: 0:01 - Link is Down
PHY: 0:01 - Link is Up - 100/Full
PHY: 0:01 - Link is Down
PHY: 0:01 - Link is Up - 100/Full

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I thought for a while that it might be a hardware issue, but the the Windows CE reference build works every time I boot it. Any suggestions?

CraigMcQueen · ‎09-17-2012

I'm having this same issue. I'm testing with the standard 2.6.35 images from Freescale, booting from 4 GB SD card.

I boot the board, and then log-in via the debug serial port. To start eth0 and eth1, I issue the commands:

udhcpc -b -i eth0

udhcpc -b -i eth1

We have two imx28evk boards. On one board, it works fine. On the other board, eth0 works, but eth1 endlessly prints: