SUMMARY: Ultra 1 problems

Thanks a lot to everybody who replied. At first myself and others
suspected that the card was dead, or at least the port of it.

Hans Schaechl came up with some other good ideas to test, and lo and
behold, my troubles went away;

"there is no internal jumper I know of which switches
from MII to TP or back, the only jumper in connection
with ethernet is J3602/J3603 for Ethernet edge tests.
Use of MII or onboard transceiver is automatically
chosen. Since your boot sequence once said "Using Onboard
Transceiver" I think you can be sure it does not use the
MII interface. But maybe your onboard trx is just broken.

You could try to change the tpe-link-test? parameter
in OBP. By default it is "true", maybe someone played
with that one. If not, change it anyway just to see :)

Did you already try to intercon two hme interfaces
without using the hub, by crossover cabling?"

I tried setting tpe-link-test? to false once more and that brought the
link up.

Once again, thanks to everybody who replied. I really appreciate your
time.

Ed Rolison
Matt Harris
Hans Schaechl

Alex Stade wrote:
> 
> Hello Managers,
> 
> I have a problem with an Ultra 1 170E and its internal ethernet. For
> some reason I cannot get a link light with the TP port. I haven't tried
> the MII port, as I don't have a dongle for it. The machine is hooked up
> to a 3Com 10/100 hub on a verifiably good cable and good port. Other Sun
> machines are hooked up to the same device so the hub isn't faulty. I've
> even made sure that I use a port and cable that were hooked up with
> another hme ethernet based machine. Could it be possible that the MII
> port is being used and that I need to move some jumper or set something
> in OBP for the TP port to be used?
> 
> Here's what I get from a watch-net;
> 
> --snip--
> 
> ok watch-net
> Internal loopback test -- succeeded.
> Transceiver check  -- failed
> 
> --snip--
> 
> And here's one with diag-switch? set to true;
> 
> --snip--
> 
> ok watch-net
> Hme register test --- succeeded.
> Internal loopback test -- succeeded.
> Transceiver check  -- Using Onboard Transceiver - Timeout waiting for
> AutoNegotiation Status to be updated.
> Timeout reading Link status. Check cable and try again.
> 
> --snip--
> 
> Here's the POST message with diag-switch? set to true.
> 
> --snip--
> 
> Software Power ON
> 
> @(#) Sun Ultra 1 UPA/SBus 3.25 Version 0 created 1999/12/03 11:38
> Clearing E$ Tags Done
> Clearing I/D TLBs Done
> Probing Memory Done
> MEM BASE = 0000.0000.3000.0000
> MEM SIZE = 0000.0000.0800.0000
> MMUs ON
> Copy Done
> PC = 0000.01ff.f000.1c7c
> PC = 0000.0000.0000.1cc0
> Decompressing into Memory Done
> Size = 0000.0000.0006.58a0
> ttya initialized
> SC Control: EWP:0 IAP:0 FATAL:0 WAKEUP:0 BXIR:0 BPOR:0 SXIR:0 SPOR:1
> POR:0
> Probing Memory Bank #0   0 +   0 :   0 Megabytes
> Probing Memory Bank #1   0 +   0 :   0 Megabytes
> Probing Memory Bank #2  64 +  64 : 128 Megabytes
> Probing Memory Bank #3  64 +  64 : 128 Megabytes
> Probing UPA Slot at 1e,0 Nothing there
> Probing /sbus@1f,0 at e,0  SUNW,fas sd st SUNW,hme SUNW,bpp
> Probing /sbus@1f,0 at 0,0  Nothing there
> Probing /sbus@1f,0 at 1,0  Nothing there
> screen not found.
> Can't open input device.
> Keyboard not present.  Using ttya for input and output.
> SC Control: EWP:0 IAP:0 FATAL:0 WAKEUP:0 BXIR:0 BPOR:0 SXIR:0 SPOR:1
> POR:0
> Probing Memory Bank #0   0 +   0 :   0 Megabytes
> Probing Memory Bank #1   0 +   0 :   0 Megabytes
> Probing Memory Bank #2  64 +  64 : 128 Megabytes
> Probing Memory Bank #3  64 +  64 : 128 Megabytes
> Probing UPA Slot at 1e,0 Nothing there
> Probing /sbus@1f,0 at e,0  SUNW,fas sd st SUNW,hme SUNW,bpp
> Probing /sbus@1f,0 at 0,0  Nothing there
> Probing /sbus@1f,0 at 1,0  Nothing there
> 
> Sun Ultra 1 UPA/SBus (UltraSPARC 167MHz), No Keyboard
> OpenBoot 3.25, 256 MB memory installed, Serial #7966712.
> Ethernet address 8:0:20:79:8f:f8, Host ID: 80798ff8.
> 
> Boot device: net  File and args:
> Using Onboard Transceiver - Timeout waiting for AutoNegotiation Status
> to be updated.
> Timeout reading Link status. Check cable and try again.
> ~
> ok
> 
> --snip--
> 
> Thanks for any suggestions, I'll summarize.
> 
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> Systems Administrator   Chicago, IL 60606
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