I have seen faulty transceivers blow Ethernet fuses whenever they are
plugged in (of course, as soon as I realised this, in the trash they
went). I suggest you obtain a few spare fuses and note what happens when
you plug the transceiver in.

Toby

DP wrote:
> 
> The handy-dandy field engineer manual shows an Ethernet fuse at F0802. If
> you had the machine open with the back facing away from you, F0802 would be
> in the back right corner, just in front of the external SCSI connector.
> There are two fuses here -- one's Ethernet, one's SCSI -- the one you want
> is the rightmost (outermost) one.
> 
> Sun has the part number as 150-1174, but I'm sure a local electronics store
> might be able to find you an equivelant.
> 
> Dan
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Manuel Bouyer" <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
> To: <port-sparc@netbsd.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 4:36 PM
> Subject: another hardware question
> 
> > hi again,
> > I've got a sparc IPC, but it seems it's on-board ethernet is dead
> > Prom network tests complains that the external loopback failed, and the
> > transeiver's light stay off (I known the transeiver is OK, it work
> > fine on another IPC). Is there a fuse for the power supply of the
> > external transeiver ?
> >
> > Note: the EPROM's battery is dead, I had to reprogram it, but I don't
> think
> > this can cut the power to the external transeiver ...
> >
> > --
> > Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
> > --
> >