Joakim Tjernlund wrote:

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Maybe you suffer from something I noticed, sometimes the master for MDIO gets out of sync. Try this patch and see if it helps, not sure if it still applies but that should be easy to fix up.

It applied cleanly with some line offsets, but didn't fix my problem. :-(

From 241d7e4f4fb26b2424311a6012c845bd97dfdafa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joakim Tjernlund Joakim.Tjernlund@transmode.se Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:33:18 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Move call to qe_set_mii_clk_src() into uec_read_phy_reg() and uec_write_phy_reg() to make sure MII master clock source is correct.

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drivers/qe/uec.c | 5 ----- drivers/qe/uec_phy.c | 6 ++++++ 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

Defining the netmask didn't help either. Since it works the first time, including bootp with a full tftp load (lots of packets), it implies the network is fine but someone is shutting down the network (improperly?) after the ping/tftp/bootp command completes and not starting it up again on the next network command.

Thanks, gvb