[nycbug-talk] beaglebone up after trials and tribulation

[George Neville-Neil]

On Dec 19, 2012, at 13:57 , Brett Wynkoop <nycbug at wynn.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 19 Dec 2012 12:18:47 -0500
> George Neville-Neil <gnn at neville-neil.com> wrote:
>> 
>> BTW There are some  known issues with BeagleBone and ethernet, so
>> look here first and see if your BB is one that needs you to cut a
>> trace.
>> 
>> http://circuitco.com/support/index.php?title=BeagleBone
>> 
>> Search for "R219" and make absolutely sure that you have the board
>> with the issue.
>> 
>> That being said there are definitely issues that a bunch of us are
>> trying to address in the cpsw driver, so, bug reports etc. are most
>> welcome.
>> 
>> Best,
>> George
>> 
> 
> Greeting-
> 
> I have the A6A rev of the board.  I found no reference to needing to
> cut the trace to R219 for that board, The only reference I found to
> cutting R219 seems to be for the A4 board.  Am I missing something?  I
> think the problems are probably driver related as it ran fine under
> GNU/Linux for several weeks.
> 

The A6 is fine, it was the A4, which I have, that had the problem.

If you're following Tim Kneitzle's work on this then you'll get the
latest updates for the driver.

Join the arm@ mailing list to send along bugs etc.

Best,
George