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I am looking a way to connect an ethernet cable to ESP8266 board. I need a circuit with component details as I believe we will need:

1. A way to generate differential signals for Tx line
2. A way to convert differential signal to single ended Rx line
3. We may need magnetics to isolate board with the ethernet cable.

Has any one got a success? Or is there any standard board/ shield available? or is there already a reference topic for the above?

Or you could just buy a ENC28J60 module for about the same as an ESP8266 and wire them together?

You'll need to master the SPI bus on the ESP - but I'm sure you appreciated that already.

I'm sure you'll find many great resources on using it on the web - I found some straightforward instructable on connecting it to an arduino - once you get to grips with the SPI please report back your findings here - adding wired ethernet would really sweet.

gwizz wrote:Or you could just buy a ENC28J60 module for about the same as an ESP8266 and wire them together?

You'll need to master the SPI bus on the ESP - but I'm sure you appreciated that already.

I'm sure you'll find many great resources on using it on the web - I found some straightforward instructable on connecting it to an arduino - once you get to grips with the SPI please report back your findings here - adding wired ethernet would really sweet.

Thanks for the info. I ordered that card and hope to get it by next week.

I studied the circuit of ENC28J60, it does have isolated magnetics built into RJ 45. Thats good.

April1 wrote:

gwizz wrote:Or you could just buy a ENC28J60 module for about the same as an ESP8266 and wire them together?

You'll need to master the SPI bus on the ESP - but I'm sure you appreciated that already.

I'm sure you'll find many great resources on using it on the web - I found some straightforward instructable on connecting it to an arduino - once you get to grips with the SPI please report back your findings here - adding wired ethernet would really sweet.

Thanks for the info. I ordered that card and hope to get it by next week.

I studied the circuit of ENC28J60, it does have isolated magnetics built into RJ 45. Thats good.

Have you managed to get this to work? I have some need for a similar device (ethernet to ESP8266)