[PCIe Dev board] Established GiGe link with marvell 88e1111

[Altera_Forum]

Hello, 

 I have a pci express dev board and i would to make a giga ethernet connection with the marvell 88e1111 PHY transceiver (in copper mode).  I have successfully instantiate tse mac block in stratixII device and i have build logic around for configuration.  MAC loopback mode and also PHY loopback mode run successfully. But when i desactive all loopback mode and i try to established a link with network card on my pc, nothing happens...  After configuration sequence of tse mac block, i make a reset of the marvell PHY (with the respect of all reset timing specifications find in the 88e1111 datasheet). for now, i didn't change nothing in internal registers of the marvell PHY. Hardware configuration (CONFIG[6..0]) are good for gigabit operation and auto negociation.  What can i make to link pcie board and network pc card ? Must I send a specific mac frame just to link cards ? Could someone help me and tell me the exact registers configuration of the mac block or the good procedure ?  Any help will be appreciate. Thanks in advance!

[Altera_Forum]

Hi, I actually have a similar problem with the TSE. I use the TSE reference design, but I can't make the TSE running with a PHY LOOP BACK. How did you manage to do that? 

Thanks for your help, Celine