Hi All,
I have a peculiar problem. I am working on a MPC8540 processor with 3 ethernet interface. I am using the 2.4.20 Montavista Kernel with Gianfar.c as the ethernet driver. When the kernel boots up it reads the PHY id correctly and brings up the link also and i am also doing a DHCP request in the kernel. It gets an IP address also without any trouble, but as soon as i get the linux prompt..i am unable to ping external network and moreover my ethernet link also goes down. So to debug a bit, I manually brought down the interface and brought it up from the prompt using Ifconfig. When it comes it auto-negotiates correctly for the speed and says "link is up" but my ethernet link to the switch is not there eventhough it claims Link is up. I am really puzzled ....what might have gone between the interface bring up and FS mount. Can anyone pls shed some light on this.
Regards sivam