Ethernet: wESP32 rev. (>= 7) not supported

[skerner-dev]

What happened?

Hello devs, hi community,

i noticed a bug or rather an incompatibility on one of the supported ethernet boards.

This concerns the (open source / HW) wESP32 POE board of Silicognition LLC. https://wesp32.com/

Not long after the initial release of the wESP32 the manufacturerer changed the PHY from LAN8720 to RTL8201 because of reliability issues.

The dev writes the following on https://wesp32.com/files/wESP32-Product-Brief.pdf (Page 6, Revision Changes):

From revision 7 onward, the board uses an RTL8201FI Ethernet PHY chip for increased reliability
versus older revisions that used a LAN8720AI Ethernet PHY. A software change is necessary to
support the new PHY. In most cases, the only thing that changes is the definition of the PHY declared
in the code.

Since this change happened quite early after the release i guess of the wESP32 board sout there are with the RTL8201 PHY.

To Reproduce Bug

Flash and configure WLED to a wESP32 rev 7 or greater.

Expected Behavior

Connection via ethernet.

Install Method

Binary from WLED.me

What version of WLED?

0.14.0

Which microcontroller/board are you seeing the problem on?

ESP32

Relevant log/trace output

No response

Anything else?

quote from network.cpp

 // WESP32
{
  0,			              // eth_address,
  -1,			              // eth_power,
  16,			              // eth_mdc,
  17,			              // eth_mdio,
  ETH_PHY_LAN8720,      // eth_type,
  ETH_CLOCK_GPIO0_IN	  // eth_clk_mode
},

Code of Conduct

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[softhack007]

Seems to be a duplicate of

• Create esp32_V4_eth environment and add wesp32 r7 board support to it. #3444
• wESP32 V7 Ethernet driver not working #3057

[skerner-dev]

Thanks for the info. I was not aware of these, sorry.

Would be very happy to see revs 7 and higher supported when WLED moves to IDF V4.

Best wishes :)

[snoack]

I don't know why this issue is closed as completed, since the linked pull request was never merged. I submitted a new pull request:

• Add RTL8201-based wESP32 rev7 Ethernet option #5667