Dell Broadcom NetXtreme Family of Adapters - Manual (Page 187)

Using Broadcom Advanced Control Suite 4: Broadcom NetXtreme II® Network Adapter User Guide
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other OSes. You can, however use BACS on a Linux client to connect to a Windows Server host and run the diagnostic
test utility.
You must have administrator privileges to run diagnostic tests.
The network connection is temporarily lost while these tests are running.
Some tests are not supported on all Broadcom adapters.
To run the diagnostic tests once using the BACS GUI
1. Click the name of the adapter to test in the Explorer View pane and select the Diagnostics tab.
2. From the Select a test to run list, select Diagnostic Tests.
3. Select the diagnostic tests you want to run. Click Select All to select all tests or Clear All to clear all test selections.
4. Select the number of times to run the tests from Number of loops.
5. Click Run test(s).
6. In the error message window that warns of the network connection being temporarily interrupted, click Yes. The results are
displayed in the Result field for each test.
Control Registers
This test verifies the read and write capabilities of the network adapter registers by writing various values to the registers and
verifying the results. The adapter driver uses these registers to perform network functions such as sending and receiving information.
A test failure indicates that the adapter may not be working properly.
MII Registers
This test verifies the read and write capabilities of the registers of the physical layer (PHY). The physical layer is used to control the
electrical signals on the wire and to configure network speeds such as 1000 Mbit/s.
EEPROM
This test verifies the content of the electrically erasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROM) by reading a portion of the
EEPROM and computing the checksum. The test fails if the computed checksum is different from the checksum stored in the EEPROM.