Hi Jonathan,
<..>
> Here's the relevant lines from dmesg:
> ag71xx_mdio: probed
> eth0: Atheros AG71xx at 0xb9000000, irq 4
> eth0: connected to PHY at ag71xx-mdio:0c [uid=00008201, driver=Generic PHY]
The PHY is at address 0x0c. So the phy mask should be 0x00001000 (1 << 12).
>
> I don't really understand the mask. I know it determines what phy is
> selected, but I'm in the dark about the correct value.
> I've tried using both b9000000 and 00008201.
> both result in a 'no PHY found with phy_mask' message.
The b9000000 is the address of the ethernet registers, and the 00008201 is the
ID of the PHY.
>
>
>>> set_preinit_iface() {
>>> ifname=eth0
>>> + [ $(ar71xx_board_name) = "tl-wa901nd-v2" ] && mii-tool -R
>>> + /* The TP-link WA901ND V2 requires a hardware reset of
>>> + * its ethernet port before it will connect.
>>> + */
>>> +
>>
>> This looks strange. The phy core should reset the PHY automatically. Please
>> try
>> to add this line into the machine setup code, somewhere before the
>> 'ar71xx_add_device_eth(0)' call:
>>
>> ar71xx_eth0_data.reset_bit = RESET_MODULE_GE0_MAC | RESET_MODULE_GE0_PHY;
>
> That works perfectly. Thank you! Using mii-tool was really bugging me, as
> well.
>
>
> Once the correct phy_mask value is determined, I'll resubmit the patch.
Ok.
Regards,
Gabor
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