LAN/NIC problem

[waldo]

Back to the topic at hand ..... any updates on the GbE issue ?

Tllim, anyone ; could you update us on progress anywhere ?
1 Patch from olimex to do some magic with the autoneg
2 Possible Powerpath issue
3 Possible takeback of impacted boards

Meanwhile olimex seems to have dumped the realtek and are production ready with a PHY from microchip .....
https://olimex.wordpress.com/2016/09/19/...roduction/

1. No aware there is autoneg patch from Olimex, please provide link.

2. We have collect several boards that having gigabit ethernet and already in hardware engineer hands.

@tllim If you'd please be so kind as to keep us updated on any progress anywhere concerning this , that'd be great, I (and I imagine a lot of peeps with me) am holding off buying more pine's until this is fixed ....
Even if progress is small just update us every two weeks for example ... I think that 'll keep a lot of us from asking the same questions over and over again


heres the patch I was talking about (and have been mentioning for months btw) ....olimex needed it first to fix their a20 boards iirc
http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/20...49734.html
==> it 'fakes' auto-negotiations so they become master for sure , which made the a20 board behave stable :S
 net: phy: Optionally force master mode for RTL PHY
 sunxi: A20-Olimex-SOM-EVB: Force 8211CL to master
 sunxi: A20-OLinuXino-Lime2: Force 8211CL to master


I know this mentions the CL variant as opposed to our 8211E, but i seem to remember their issues were the quite same .... been a while since I found the patch ... so i don't remember the details
even more info : https://www.mail-archive.com/u-boot@list...07006.html