Although it looks like there is little progress on this project, we are still working on it.
The myDitto NAS that Hendrik is porting OpenWRT to, has a slighly later PHY chip that seems to be not well detected or catered for in the driver module.
MvixBox has the previous version of the PHY chip to that found on the myDitto.The OpenWRT version for the MvixBox is still based on Kamikaze, and it has no ethernet issues based on my usage of it.
The old buildroot for the MvixBox OpenWRT will not work with kernels greater than 3, but I have modified it to work on the last Lubuntu version with that kernel.
We aim to be able to do some differential analysis by running both versions of OpenWRT on both the myDitto and the MvixBox.
Sometimes we do feel like