Re: How to Disable Ethernet

Hi Paul,

Wow, I am very confused. I thought I read that people were
developing drivers for the ethernet (single ethernet port
systems) but they first had to disable KITL. You then
reroute your debug messages to the serial port since KITL
is no longer available for debugging. We are trying to
develop a controller with a single port that can access the
internet. My understanding from other posts is you want to
avoid using VMINI and the built in ethernet driver because
it is very inefficient (slow). You need to develop your
own NDIS driver for the actual final product.

Thanks for the help, -Jeff


>-----Original Message-----
>That's just not the way it's supposed to work. If you
want to use Ethernet
>for download, you don't load your driver for the Ethernet,
you load VMini.
>There's a page in the 4.2 help called Ethernet Connection
Options that talks
>about using a single Ethernet connection for both download
and ordinary
>networking. I have not done that, but your OAL needs to
support it, too, as
>I read the documentation. There are just two ways to do
things, when you're
>using Ethernet for download:
>
>1. Two Ethernet adapters, one for download, one for the CE OS.
>2. VMini and sharing of the Ethernet between KITL and the
CE OS (you
>wouldn't have a separate driver for the adapter installed,
in this case).
>
>Paul T.
>
>"jeffs" <anonymous@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
message
>news:129101c55266$02a9a020$a601280a@xxxxxxxxxx
>> Thanks Paul,
>>
>> I dont mind living with it but I dont know how to make my
>> driver behave correctly with it. It receives constant
>> interrupts which are not intended for it (the interrupt and
>> mask do not overlap). How should I handle this? I have
>> been struggling with this for 2 weeks. I am porting the
>> 91C96 driver to winCE 4.2 and the OS just gets stuck
>> calling this ISR over & over. The interrupt is disabled in
>> OEMInterruptHandler. It is reenabled/cleared at the end of
>> the interruptHandler per what I have read in the mesage
>> archives. In addition, I verify the hardware interrupt is
>> completely cleared (no pending hardware interrupt) prior to
>> leaving the interrupt handler. I also changed the SYSINTR
>> value to a unique value (it no longer uses SYSINT_SMSC).
>>
>> Any help would be greatly appreciated. I can not find any
>> formal documentation on this anywhere.
>>
>> -Jeff
>>
>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>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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>>>
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