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PostPosted: Sat Feb 25, 2006 6:17 pm    Post subject: DEC Fiber Card [SOLVED] Reply with quote

Ok here is my problem.

Im try to get this Digital Equipment Corporation FDDI card working and for the the life of me I can't figure out whats going on. I have compiled FDDI and DEFPA support into my kernel and when i run ifconfig i can see the fddi0 interface, bring it up and give it an address. however I can not recive any information with it. when i run tcpdump on the interface, then do 'ping -I fddi0 -b 255.255.255.255' i can see the packets going out but im not getting any responces. I have tried using ethtool and mii-tool on it but im getting Operation not supported errors, probably because it is not ethernet.

this is my lspci output:

Code:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Broadcom CNB20HE Host Bridge (rev 21)
00:00.1 Host bridge: Broadcom CNB20HE Host Bridge (rev 01)
00:00.2 Host bridge: Broadcom CNB20HE Host Bridge
00:00.3 Host bridge: Broadcom CNB20HE Host Bridge
00:07.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage IIC (rev 7a)
00:0f.0 ISA bridge: Broadcom OSB4 South Bridge (rev 4f)
00:0f.1 IDE interface: Broadcom OSB4 IDE Controller
04:02.0 System peripheral: Hewlett-Packard Company NetServer PCI Hot-Plug Controller (rev 0b)
04:02.1 InfiniBand: Hewlett-Packard Company NetServer SMIC Controller (rev 0b)
04:03.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 80960RP [i960 RP Microprocessor/Bridge] (rev 01)
04:03.1 I2O: Intel Corporation 80960RP [i960RP Microprocessor] (rev 01)
05:03.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905 100BaseTX [Boomerang]
05:04.0 FDDI network controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DEFPA (rev 01)
05:07.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7880U (rev 02)
05:08.0 System peripheral: Hewlett-Packard Company NetServer Smart IRQ Router (rev a0)


ifconfig fddi0 output:

Code:
fddi0     Link encap:Fiber Distributed Data Interface  HWaddr 00-00-F8-BD-CA-AD
          inet addr:10.14.1.8  Bcast:10.14.255.255  Mask:255.255.0.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:4470  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:19 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
          Interrupt:201 Base address:0x5400


the odd thing from that output is that the dropped packets are the broadcast pings I try and send out.

Anyone have some tips on running FDDI adaptors? If there is anything else that would help let me know

Solved: Apparently we are using a different fiber standard on the network than I was told. The card was working fine, the fiber was incompatable :)


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