[ixp1200] Canadian ixp1200 Woes

[Sprajc, Barry]

The orientation of the jumpers in this area of J12 and J26 are not of normal
convention.  If you hold the card up so the lables are correct ( With the
fiber ports pointed up ), the jumpers should be read as:

 3 2 1
+-+-+-+
|o|o|o|
+-+-+-+

Normally one would expect them to read as:

 1 2 3
+-+-+-+
|o|o|o|
+-+-+-+

This caused me grief for about a day one time.  To verify correct
orientation of the jumpers, look for the square solder pad on the PCB.  The
square pad indicates pin 1.

Also, in some version of the firmware, they may have changed the baud rate
to 19600 or 38400, but I don't remember which version or if this was only on
the fancy dev. platform.

Hope this helps,

/barry



-----Original Message-----
From: lcard [mailto:lcard at win.trlabs.ca]
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 9:16 AM
To: ixp1200 at CS.Princeton.EDU
Subject: [ixp1200] Canadian ixp1200 Woes


Hello List,

I've got an IXP12EB kit. (Not the fancy IXDP1200 Development platform with 
the single board computer.)

One of the problems I have is I don't know what silicon I have. (A0, B0,
C0? How many are there anyway?) I don't know if there are different
revisions of the IXP12EB kit, and I don't know if there are different
revisions of the PCI blade either. Do you know the revision history of the
silicon? The PCI blade? The IXP12EB kit?

When I manipulate the J12 and J26 jumpers on the PCI card with a
console (9600 baud, 8 data bits, No Parity bit, 1 stop bit) attached:

1. The Boot Manager will not start. (The SDK 1.0 documentation does not
reference a boot manager, so maybe I just doesn't have one on my flash
image...) Some trash is sent to the console however. At first I figured
this was just my console not set up properly, so I tried different speeds,
and setups, with no luck. 

2. It won't start the VxWorks loader (Nothing is sent to the serial
port. Various documentation indicates the console should be used set up
the FTP client to grab a Vxworks kernel image, but that doesn't work,
because the console is dead.)

3. It doesn't start the Angel Debugger. Oddly, this setting sends the same
trash to the console as the setting for the boot manager.

4. The diagnostics setting DOES work. This makes me think my console setup  
also works. I can run through the tests, and send test commands, and
receive test data back.

Those four points make me think that one (or both) of the flash chips on
the PCI blade are probably corrupt. 

I can't burn parts, but I can probably find someone to do it for me, so
some Flash ROM images would be really helpful. It would be even better if
they were stored on Flash ROMs. Does anyone have any? 
 
I would love to run VxWorks, or Linux, or anything other than the
diagnostics at this point.

Any help you can provide, including the names of support contacts would be
greatly appreciated.

-L

Loren Card
System Administrator, Packet Plumber, Process Gestapo,
Data Integrity Sheriff, Information Monk, Graduate Student,
TRLabs, Winnipeg, Canada.
Tel: (204)488-5626
Email: lcard at win.trlabs.ca