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1-5
Octel Overture 200/300 Serenade 3.0
PB60014–01
LAN Card Installation
LAN
cards are designed to be hot-plugged. The procedure to install the LAN card is as follows:
1.
Put on an antistatic wrist strap. Connect it to an unpainted portion of the cabinet.
2.
While holding the LAN card by its top and bottom edges, slide the card into the card cage.
3.
Pivot the card ejectors as needed to grip the small flanges on the front edges of the card cage.
4.
Firmly seat the LAN card connectors into the motherboard by pressing the card ejectors against the
front edge of the LAN card. The ejectors will clip onto small pins on the LAN card when the
connectors are seated.
Caution!
Do not slam the LAN card into the cabinet, as this
could damage the card or motherboard connectors.
5.
Install the 25-pair
-to-RJ45-adapter on the back of the cabinet for the slot in which the LAN card is
being installed.
6.
Connect the ethernet twisted-
pair cable from the RJ45 adapter to the ethernet hub.
7.
After installing the LAN card, restart the message server to put the card into service. At the @
prompt, enter
RESTA
Enter
There are eight LEDs on the front edge of the LAN card. Once the LAN card is installed, the LEDs are
activated as shown in Table 1
1-1.
Table 11-1
LED Activity on the LAN Card
LED
Color
LED Purpose
LED Activity
Red Standard
use
Lights after the LAN card is installed.
Goes of
f when the card has been initialized and is ready for
operation.
Green
Standard use
Lights when self-test diagnostics are complete.
Yellow Development
Used only for development.
Yellow
Good Link Indicator
Lights when the adapter and wiring to a hub are okay
.
Yellow
Rx Polarity Reversed
Lights if the pair being received by the ethernet controller
need to be reversed. Check the wiring.
Yellow
Receive Activity
Indicator
Lights when the ethernet controller sees activity on the
receive pair
.
Yellow T
ransmit Activity
Indicator
Lights when the ethernet controller sees activity on the
transmit pair
.
Yellow
Collision Indicator
Lights when a collision occurs. Collisions occur normally
in ethernet/802.3 networks, because it is part of the
low-layer protocol.