Re: How to Disable Ethernet

Disable it? Program the OS into flash or wherever it will be permanently
stored and remove the KILT component from the OS. If you have to use
Ethernet to download, you're going to have to live with sharing the port...

Paul T.

"jeffs" <anonymous@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:126501c55262$caea6a00$a601280a@xxxxxxxxxx
> Hi Paul,
>
> How can I be sure that KITL is no longer accessing it?
> When I run my driver, I get interrupts from the 91C96 that
> should not be occuring (i.e. the interrupt does not match
> the mask). If I add a 10 second delay to the end of my
> InterruptHandler, no interrupts occur during that time.
> However, immediately upon return from the InterruptHandler
> a new interrupt is generated. There must be some other
> code that is accessing the 91C96 that I have not properly
> turned off.
>
> Thanks for the help! -Jeff
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>If the cable is connected, there's a reasonable chance
> that you'll get
>>network traffic. Are you sure you're not seeing broadcast
> packets from
>>other machines on your network getting to your Windows CE
> device?
>>
>>Is the device configured for DHCP? Maybe it's trying to
> get an IP address
>>from a DHCP server?
>>
>>Other 'things' in the system aren't going to access the
> chip directly, once
>>you've removed KITL. Everything will go through the
> driver. That doesn't
>>mean that many network services won't be sending and
> receiving data, though.
>>
>>Paul T.
>>
>>"jeffs" <anonymous@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
> message
>>news:0c7a01c55203$37f77170$a401280a@xxxxxxxxxx
>>>I am adding an NDIS driver to a PXA255 board. OS is winCE
>>> 4.2 I want to make sure that nothing else accesses the
>>> 91C96 ethernet chip other than my driver. To do this I
>>> modified "OEMKitlInit" to only return FALSE to disable
>>> KITL. In addition, under platform settings->build options
>>> I unchecked "KITL" & "CE Target Control support".
>>>
>>> With KITL supposedly turned off and no ethernet drivers
>>> added to the build I am still seeing constant access to the
>>> 91C96 chip. The TX light is constantly going & the
>>> interrupt is constantly going.
>>>
>>> QUESTION : what else is accessing the 91C96? Have I
>>> properly disabled KITL?
>>>
>>> The following environment variables are also set:
>>> BSP_NOSHAREETH=1
>>> KERNELNOSHAREETH=1
>>> BSP_NOSERIAL=1
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance for any help -Jeff
>>
>>
>>.
>>


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