On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 11:40 PM, <g...@gabeknuth.com> wrote:

> I've been all over searching for this issue, and while I've found a few
> posts that seem to have the same issue around the tubes, I haven't found a
> solution.
>
> I'm a Windows guy by day, so take that for what it's worth :) Here's the
> situation:
>
> New-ish BBB. I've had it for a while, but only just recently started using
> it. It's a Rev C, running Debian. uname -a shows 3.88.13-bone50. After I
> got the image placed on MMC, I enabled eth0, which was commented out by
> default. I briefly got it to grab an IP address via DHCP, but within a
> reboot or two I couldn't get an IP address anymore. I tried a static IP,
> but couldn't access any resources on my network. I even re-flashed the MMC.
>

A few kernel fixes for the phy are not in the may 2014 release, flash via:

http://elinux.org/Beagleboard:BeagleBoneBlack_Debian#2014-10-08



>
> dmesg shows many occurrences of:
>
> net eth0: initializing cpsw version 1.12 (0)
> net eth0: phy found : id is : 0x7c0f1
> libphy: PHY 4a101000.mdio:01 not found
> net eth0: phy 4a101000.mdio:01 not found on slave 1
> IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
>
> Additionally, I see this on boot up:
>
>
> <https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-ltJpUAsWNzE/VEc0Wi8YBCI/AAAAAAAAAKg/XVj_RZ0F2GI/s1600/IMG_5779.JPG>
> While the cable is plugged in, both the amber and green lights are on
> solid. They come on solid as soon as power is applied, and they turn off
> briefly during the boot process, probably for less than a second (and I'm
> pretty sure it corresponds to the attached screen shot).
>
> So I guess I'm at a loss right now. I suppose it could be bad hardware,
> but I'm not ready to call it this early. Any help would be MUCH appreciated!
>

":01" is the second eth port.. Which is not connected on the bbb.

Regards,

-- 
Robert Nelson
http://www.rcn-ee.com/

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