Fast Ethernet device driver for MPC885

[Ricardo Scop]

Hi Sophie,

On Thursday 23 June 2005 06:09, scarayol at assystembrime.com wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> I use a custom board with a MPC885 microprocessor. I want to test the
> Ethernet chain on my board so i made an external loopback on the Ethernet
> port. I want to transmit datas and read the received datas.
>
> Which driver have i to use and which name to open it. I don' see any driver
> that seems to be the fec one in /dev/..  
Well, fec registers as a network device, so you should use the sockets API to 
access it.

>I think i have to use the routines
> in pqfec.c instead of fec.c. 
Don't know about them, sorry.

> But I don't know how the driver works.
> Which kind of driver is it and how access to the routines from user space
> in order to do my tests ?
Read above. "man socket" is a good start.

HTH,

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