[c-nsp] 7204 PA-T3 PRoblem

[Jayson Navitsky]

On 1/9/07, Gert Doering <gert at greenie.muc.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 01:14:23PM -0500, Jayson Navitsky wrote:
> > I have a PA-T3 in a 7204 (non VXR) NPE-200 for some reason no matter
> > what I do I cannot get this card to recognize any circuit attached to
> > it or give the appropriate lights.  I have noticed in show controllers
> > showing a "Last FEAC code received: unkonwn code 3F", (do note the
> > misspelling) Google has turned up nothing on this.
> >
> > With a hard loopback to the card here's the ouput:
>
> Is that with "clock source internal"?
>
> If not, you might want to try this - someone has to provide clocking,
> and if you don't tell the card, it won't know...
>
> ("Usually" the PAs will find some noise that could be used for clocking,
> and enter some sort of free-running mostly-clocked mode, but if you have
> little electric noise around, it might not do that).
>
> This is just a stab in the dark, though...
>
> gert

I tried with both internal and line clocking.  I even hooked the card
up to a spare DS3 (actually 2 separate ones) and got the same result.
At this point I'm looking for any stab in the dark, this one really
has me stumped...

Thanks,
Jay