I've been handed two 7945G's one thats stuck on upgrading and one with a blank screen.
When I do a factory reset they I can see from the switch that they get power (15.4W) but thats it, they are not recognised as Cisco phones on the Cisco switch over CDP (thus they are not dropping down to 6.3W). The mac address of the phone doesn't even show up on the switch.
So I created a console cable to console through the AUX port. From the phone I saw that it was trying to send DHCP discovers but not getting a reply
NOT 15:58:56.018630 DHCP: dhcpSendReq: status 0x0
NOT 15:58:56.019180 DHCP: Sending Discover...
WRN 15:59:00.010078 DHCP: response not received, try again...
WRN 15:59:08.010087 DHCP: response not received, try again...
WRN 15:59:24.010081 DHCP: response not received, try again...
Then I noticed that the LED on the switch port wasnt even on even though the phone was getting power. So I got another switch (non POE) and got a power cube and connected the phone to the non POE switch via the PC port using a X-over cable. I also put a DHCP/TFTP server on my laptop with the phone firmware.
This time the phone got IP but thats it it makes no attempt to TFTP through the PC port (fair enough) but the switch port on both phones just seems to be dead (even though POE on phone is working)
Any Ideas ?
