[geeks] HP LanProbe J3322B

[Brian Hechinger]

i've got an FDDI ring in my house (this *IS* the geeks mailing list after all,
heh heh) and so i saw a lot of three HP Lanprobes on eBay, ended up paying $50
for all three, so i feel i got a pretty good deal. :)

anyway, two are J3322A and one is J3322B, the B has Telemetry, which is, uhm,
if someone can explain what that is, please do. :0

anyway, i hook up my FDDI ring, slap on a serial console and drop in a power
cord.  get POST, get rom prompt.  but i can't do anything.  it just sits there
and that's it.

does anyone know how to make one of these blasted things work?  this looks like
an awesome toy, i just gotta get it working right.  it's not dead in the water
though.  the activity light blinks when there is traffic on the ring.  so i
think it works, but how do i control it?  can i config it from the console or
do i need to use an SNMP management package?

also, the J3322A's are up for grabs.  16MB ram each.  revision C mobos with
68060 CPUs.  i have no use for them, i only need one after all. :)

thanks!!!

-brian

ps: here's the post:

HP FDDI LanProbe Monitor/Debugger Version A.00.04 (23 May 1997)
Power-On Self Tests:                                           
 32M bytes Bank 1 DRAM found
 Bank 1 DRAM: testing...1...2...3...4...Okay
 Starting debugger...Done
 Real Time Clock: testing...Okay
 Current time/date =  8:49:08 on Wednesday 28 April, 2001
 68LC/EC060 version 4 processor found
 Version D motherboard found
 Two fiber-media cards found
 Watchdog: testing...Okay
 Timers: testing...Okay
 LEDs: testing...Okay
 128K bytes SRAM found
 Temperature = 27.5 degrees Centigrade,  81.5 degrees Fahrenheit
 Configured to Auto-start on power-up.
 Configured to Auto-restart on fatal errors.
 Will take a crash-dump on all fatal errors.
 Crash dumps limited to 1024 bytes stack, 8152 bytes total
 Configured MAC Address: 00:00:c6:00:c3:70
 512K bytes Flash found
 IFDDI MAC: testing...Okay
 IFDDI ELM: testing...Okay
 FDDI External ELM: testing...Okay
 SONIC: revision 257 chip found at $48000000
 SONIC MAC loopback polled: testing...Okay
 SONIC ENDEC loopback polled: testing...Okay
 SONIC MAC loopback interrupt: testing...Okay
 SONIC ENDEC loopback interrupt: testing...Okay
 Loading from Flash bank 1
 Application found, dated 20:50:12 26 Sep 1997
 Copying Application to RAM...Done
 Jumping to Application...

POST completed successfully.
HP FDDI LanProbe - SNMP 1.0 (A.02.03), (Boot ROM A.00.04 16M)
FDDI Network Monitor, MIB-II, RMON
(c) Copyright 1991-1996 by Hewlett-Packard Company
(c) Copyright 1988, 1989 by Carnegie Mellon University
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[and this is where it hangs]