[c-nsp] GBIC troubles redux

[Jared Mauch]

On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 01:24:54PM -0400, andrew2 at one.net wrote:
> Still having issues getting some GBICs working in a pair of NPE-G1's and
> I just can't help but feel I'm overlooking something obvious.  Here's
> what I've done:
> 
> Installed a PA-GE card in each of the 7204 NPE-G1's.  The cards detect
> fine, but when the GBICs are inserted into the PA-GE's they aren't
> detected.  Tried a few more GBIC's and tried a spare PA-GE with the same
> results.  So, to try to tell for sure if the GBIC's were bad, I inserted
> one into a 2948G I had lying around where it was detected with no
> troubles.  That led me back towards thinking maybe the PA-GE's were
> faulty so just for fun I tried inserting the GBIC's into the GBIC slot
> of an usused Gig-E port on the NPE itself (both with fiber connected and
> without) and get the following result:
> 
> sh cont gigabitEthernet 0/3
> 
> Interface GigabitEthernet0/3 (idb 0x6322BC14)
> Hardware is BCM1250 Internal MAC (Revision unknown)
>   network link is down  (NO CARRIER)
>   Config is Auto Speed, Auto Duplex
>   Selected media-type is RJ45
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

	Do you need to set
interface gig0/3
 media-type gbic 

	?
	- jared

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