Notices by slaeshjag (slaeshjag@bitbang.social)

@whitequark If all you wanted was a scope and a logic analazer (not counting the convenience of having them combined), I'm guessing you need to aim quite a bit higher to get something comparable to something like an LA5032?

@whitequark honestly, I don't know why lead-free solder has such a bad reputation to this day. I avoided it for the longest time, then I had to use it once about a year ago and... It was fine. A slightly warmer tip and a good alloy and I barely notice a difference

@whitequark @foone I got a 4x USB floppy drive from japan in box. It was a real quality of life upgrade.

@whitequark Say, you don't happen to know what silicon revision you have on your chips?

@whitequark @slaeshjag did you have to do anything weird with registers or so, or was it all just according to the docs?

@whitequark @slaeshjag I'm starting to think those PHYs are just special in all the wrong ways, and that there's nothing wrong with the boards my friend put together. At one point, the devices and datasheets suddently disappeared of Microchip's website for like 5 months while mouser kept selling the chips :v

@whitequark @slaeshjag Yeah, that's what I've heard too. Friend of mine got it to transmit but not to receive, and now he wants to re-make the boards because he doesn't know if it's a microchip thing or if the boards weren't soldered up correctly :D

@whitequark @slaeshjag keep us updated. A friend designed a few boards around it for his sailing boat, I think that project is still in bring-up hell :v

@whitequark My favourite example of a connector that does. not. look high speed, is probably the subconn DBH13M. Good for gigabit ethernet (and separate power!), just remember to lube it up well first

@whitequark I'm sure there's already an errata somewhere with a couple hundred writes into undocumented registers in order to unlock basic functionality. That's usually how it goes with microchip's networking products in my experience