Re: Dell PowerEdge 1550 dual port NIC problem

On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Donald Becker wrote:

> The power state is later in the report.  The device should be in state
> D0 (full power) rather than D1, D2 or D3 (all mean powered down, perhaps
> in Wake-On-LAN mode).

It is D0 for both of them. 

> >    0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> >    0000 0000 0001 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> >    0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000.
> 
> Hmmm, this is reporting the ID of an internal transceiver on a 82559
> chip, but there is not additional info.  The only non-zero count is a
> single false carrier error.

I've got to admit that I have no idea what that meant, but I guess it 
isn't conclusive. 

> Hmmm, no indication of link beat at all.  Try running
>   mii-diag --watch eth0
> 
> And plugging/replugging the cable to see if there is at least a
> transient indication of link beat.

I'll give this a try next week and get back to you since I have to burn a 
cd with lib-mii on it to recompile mii-diag in order to use that, and I've 
got to leave work for now. In the meantime when I've got a minute or two 
I'll see if I can't get Dell to just replace this recalcitrant machine.

Paul