3Com 3C996-SX User Manual - page 103

Running Cable Analysis

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NetWare

From the command line, type 

config

 then press Enter. The following status information 

is displayed: 

3Com Gigabit Ethernet NIC 

Version:

Hardware Setting:

Mode Address:

Frame Type:

Board Name:

Lan Protocol: ARP (see note)

Lan Protocol: IP Addr: (see note)

Linux

To verify that the bcm5700.o driver is loaded properly, run “lsmod” and a line similar to 

the following will appear if the driver is loaded: 

where  is the size of the driver in bytes and  is the number of adapters 

configured using 'ifconfig'. 

Running Cable Analysis

The following section describes how to run the cable diagnostics from the 3Com 

Management Programs. See “3Com Management Programs” on page 85 for setups 

and initialization. 

From the Cable Analysis screen the user can monitor conditions of an Ethernet CAT5 cable 

connection within a cable plant in an Ethernet network. 

NOTE: The LAN protocol status appears after assigning an IP address to the 

adapter (that is, bind). 

Module

Size

Used by

BCM5700

NOTE: This test is designed to work for a 1 gigabit copper link (1000BASE-T) only.

NOTE: Network connection will be lost when running these tests.