Re: Gianfar eth driver on 8540 ppc - for 2.4 and 2.6 : different outputs

On Aug 10, 2006, at 6:18 AM, Prashant Yendigeri wrote:

Hi,

The gianfar driver of 2.6.12 and 2.4.20 give different outputs on  
the same PPC 8540 board.

What could be the reason ?

Output on 2.4.20 :
/root # ifconfig eth0 172.28.8.254 up
eth0: PHY is Marvell 88E1011S (1410c62)
eth0: Auto-negotiation done
eth0: Half Duplex
eth0: Speed 10BT
eth0: Link is up

Output on 2.6.12
/ # ifconfig eth0 172.28.8.254 up
 eth0: PHY is Generic MII (ffffffff)

It looks like your 2.6.12 kernel isn't handling the PHY correctly.   
I'd recommend upgrading to something newer which has the phylib  
(can't remember which 2.6 that went into).

- kumar