Newby trying to get Ethernet going on MPC83xx series device.

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Fri Feb 20 05:38:23 EST 2009


On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 03:26:41PM +1100, Dushara Jayasinghe wrote:
> I get the following error during the boot sequence:
> 
> IP-Config: Device `eth0' not found
> 
> I also found that both gfar_init (in gianfar.c) and gfar_mdio_init (in
> gianfar_mii.c) are called but the probe handlers of either of these
> devices are not executed.

Check your board code to see if the soc node is being probed by
of_platform_bus_probe.  Ideally, the soc node would have "simple-bus"
included in the compatible property, as would the of_device_id array.

-Scott



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