Hello, everyone!

For these days, I'm trying to install Linux on my atlys board by using the tftp of u-boot. The board has already implemented with ORPSOC successfully.

However, it seems like the ethernet connection is not working.The u-boot gives the information when I ping the host:
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==> ping 192.168.2.2
ethoc
Using ETHOC-0 device
ping failed; host 192.168.2.2 is not alive
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The network is just a simple LAN that connects the host computer (Windows operatiing system) and the board together with a single cable.

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The network settings of host(Windows) is:
IP address: 192.168.2.2
Netmask: 255.255.255.0
Gateway IP: 192.168.2.1
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The network settings of the board(Atlys) is:
ethaddr=00:12:34:56:78:9a
gatewayip=192.168.2.1
ipaddr=192.168.2.8
netmask=255.255.255.0
serverip=192.168.2.2
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The u-boot is generated by the followings:
Open a terminal, set CROSS_COMPILE=or32-elf- and export it.
Come into the directory of u-boot, then
make distclean
make atlys
Then I made a SPI bootable file(.mcs) includes the FPGA configuration and the u-boot and I dowloaded it to the SPI flash.

UART shows the following when I reset the board:
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U-Boot 2012.10-rc1-gfd9a672 (Apr 26 2013 - 16:16:35)
CPU: OpenRISC-1200 (rev 8) @ 50 MHz
D-Cache: 32768 bytes, 32 bytes/line, 1 way(s)
I-Cache: 32768 bytes, 32 bytes/line, 1 way(s)
DMMU: 64 sets, 1 way(s)
IMMU: 64 sets, 1 way(s)
MAC unit: yes
Debug unit: yes
Performance counters: no
Power management: no
Interrupt controller: yes
Timer: yes
Custom unit(s): no
Supported instructions:
ORBIS32: yes
ORBIS64: no
ORFPX32: yes
ORFPX64: no
Hardware multiplier: yes
Hardware divider: yes
BOARD: atlys
SF: Detected N25Q128 with page size 64 KiB, total 16 MiB
NET: ETHOC-0
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I think the u-boot works fine, except the network.

Some investigations:

1. I heard about the OpenRISC designs only support the 10/100Mbps network. When I plug in the network cable, the LEDs of the board show the current network is running at 1Gbps!(The current ethernet mode of the host computer is set to Autonegotiation)
After that I set the ehternet mode of my host computer to 100M Duplex, and the LED on Atlys board indicates the network is 100Mbps Duplex now. And then ping the host agian. The result is still made me upset, ping failed. =_=||

2. After I execute the ping command, I saw the LED stands for transmission flickers. But my home computer got no packets shows on the monitoring window for ehternet connections.

I'm a beginner of this. Can anyone help me to solve this problem?

I just pushed a crude workaround related to a problem with ethernet in u-boot,
it's not a solution, but should make networking work at least:
http://git.openrisc.net/cgit.cgi/stefan/u-boot/commit/?id=c7845df64f7df75dc3d46e2f6385c0d901f9d416

Hello, stekern!

Thanks a lot! The problem is disappeared now.

Terminal shows:
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==> ping 192.168.2.2

ethoc
Using ETHOC-0 device
host 192.168.2.2 is alive
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