[beagleboard] Re: Beaglebone Black Ethernet Phy Not Detected on Boot.

I opened a ticket with Microchip on this more then 6 months ago and just got the reply below. TLDR; "Since it took us so long to get to this issue, we assume you don’t care anymore that our silicon doesn’t work correctly”. Wow. -- AUTOMATED MESSAGE - SEE RESPONSE METHODS BELOW

[beagleboard] Re: Beaglebone Black Ethernet Phy Not Detected on Boot.

nspect and modify registers in the PHY https://github.com/bigjosh/phyreg Here are all my notes from debugging this issue... https://www.evernote.com/pub/bigjosh2/bbbphyproblem I am happy to try and help anyone who want to dig in deeper. I personally would love to not have to unplug/replug 72

[beagleboard] Re: Beaglebone Black Ethernet Phy Not Detected on Boot.

So far we have 2 workarounds that seem effective... 1) Connect a GPIO pin to the SYS_RESETN pin (P9-10). Make sure the GPIO pin in set to be an input only with pull-up at boot time in the DT. After boot, have a script or service grep dmseg for the telltail `detected phy mask *fffb' *messag

[beagleboard] Re: Beaglebone Black Ethernet Phy Not Detected on Boot.

Any updates on this? I also have tried about a dozen brand new BeagleBone Greens with the latest Debian 8.7 2017-03-19 images and am still seeing the same problem - the Ethernet port occasionally does