diff --git a/include/configs/am3517_evm.h b/include/configs/am3517_evm.h
index 5ff65c6d58c1519d52d83eaf19bd2037b1e459e5..5e259f5c4e54d4b6127e2c5348fe74cdbc50022a 100644
--- a/include/configs/am3517_evm.h
+++ b/include/configs/am3517_evm.h
@@ -141,8 +141,18 @@
 #define CONFIG_SYS_I2C_SLAVE		1
 #define CONFIG_DRIVER_OMAP34XX_I2C	1
 
-#undef CONFIG_CMD_NET
-#undef CONFIG_CMD_NFS
+/*
+ * Ethernet
+ */
+#define CONFIG_DRIVER_TI_EMAC
+#define CONFIG_DRIVER_TI_EMAC_USE_RMII
+#define CONFIG_MII
+#define CONFIG_BOOTP_DEFAULT
+#define CONFIG_BOOTP_DNS
+#define CONFIG_BOOTP_DNS2
+#define CONFIG_BOOTP_SEND_HOSTNAME
+#define CONFIG_NET_RETRY_COUNT		10
+
 /*
  * Board NAND Info.
  */