LAN/NIC problem

[waldo]

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

But then I believe you can't have two "broken" boards on the same network. But if you only have one PINE, and if the patch works, you'd be fine.

The auto negotiation is on a per port basis if i remember correctly,...
I do think that it would remain only a 'patch' not a real solution, ... 
I could live with it until a permanent solution is found ....which for olimex seems to have meant ... drop realtek
Edit: F**k it ; i would be happy just to get GbE working; even with some ugly patch