Dear Josh Karabin, In message <4a12cd18.2040...@vocollect.com> you wrote: > > If the kernel is loaded using some other mechanism, like flash, the smc > device is never initialized. At least in the case where there is no > valid EEPROM connected to the smc device, NFS boot will fail. I'm not > sure whether or not a loaded MAC address has anything to do with it, or > if the kernel is expecting the smc device to be in a different state. > > Relying on tftpboot leaving the ethernet device in the right state > doesn't seem right. Is there an existing clean way to deal with this, > short of adding an initramfs to fix it up? I'll work on a patch if > someone can suggest an approach that makes sense.
Please check the FAQ, especially here: http://www.denx.de/wiki/view/DULG/EthernetDoesNotWorkInLinux Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, MD: Wolfgang Denk & Detlev Zundel HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: w...@denx.de Another war ... must it always be so? How many comrades have we lost in this way? ... Obedience. Duty. Death, and more death ... -- Romulan Commander, "Balance of Terror", stardate 1709.2 _______________________________________________ U-Boot mailing list U-Boot@lists.denx.de http://lists.denx.de/mailman/listinfo/u-boot
