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Jayan Nair
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UNCLAIMED PCI-X Ethernet

Hello,
lan2 is unclaimed could anybody help to identify right direction to install the drivers.
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HP-UX pulaski B.11.23 U 9000/800 1245235605 unlimited-user license

#model
9000/800/rp4440

#ioscan -fnC lan
Class I H/W Path Driver S/W State H/W Type Description
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lan 0 0/1/2/0 iether CLAIMED INTERFACE HP AB352-60003 PCI/PCI-X 1000Base-T Dual-port Core
lan 1 0/1/2/1 iether CLAIMED INTERFACE HP AB352-60003 PCI/PCI-X 1000Base-T Dual-port Core
lan 2 0/6/1/0 iether UNCLAIMED UNKNOWN PCI-X Ethernet (80861026)

#swlist -l product |grep -i iether
IETHER-DRV B.11.23.05 HP PCI/PCI-X IEther Driver
PHNE_32199 1.0 IETHER 1000Base-SX/T B.11.23.[01-0505] patch

#what /stand/vmunix |grep iether
iether_ilan Version: 2 Dec 12 2005
iether Revision: B.11.23.0505.02 Dec 12 2005
kgdb_lan_iether.c $Date: 2004/08/05 12:49:28 $Revision: i380/3 PATCH_11.23 (PHKL_31500)

#what /stand/vmunix | grep igelan
igelan_ilan Version: 2 Jan 5 2006
igelan Revision: B.11.23.0505.04 Jan 5 2006
kgdb_lan_igelan.c $Date: 2004/08/05 12:49:37 $Revision: i380/3 PATCH_11.23 (PHKL_31500)
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Robert-Jan Goossens
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Re: UNCLAIMED PCI-X Ethernet

rick jones
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Re: UNCLAIMED PCI-X Ethernet

8086 is the PCI vendor ID for Intel. 1026 is the ID for the 82545GM. The iether driver does indeed claim at least one Intel-based NIC, but it only claims those with the HP subvendor ID of 103c and then a subproduct ID that is known to the driver.

Since there is only the one entry there, unless you didn't include a third instance I ass-u-me it is a single-port NIC - I don't recall HP shipping a single-port Intel-based GbE NIC with HP-UX support. Is there a chance this is an HP ProLiant NIC? Or a run-of-the-mill Intel NIC?

The HP-UX dual-port PCI-X ethernet nics I can find in a pci.ids file (Linux) are the A9900A with would have a subproduct ID of 12a6, and the AB352, which has a subproduct ID of 12cf - both of those are based on an Intel 82546GB dual-port chip, not the ID that appears in your ioscan output.
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Sameer_Nirmal
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Re: UNCLAIMED PCI-X Ethernet

Considering the PCI ID of the card
8086 = Vendor ID - Intel
1026 = Device ID - Gigabit Ethernet Controller
and having only one instance of the lan interface, it looks like it is 1-port Intel Gigabit Ethernet Card.

HP has cards like AD331A & AD332A which are PCI-X 1-Port Gigabit Ethernet Cards. So maybe in this case the system has one of these cards. The support for these cards was first added in 11.23 Sept'06 OE with a new version of iether driver. The current version which is dated Dec 12 2005 doesn't support these type of cards hence you see it unknown/unclaimed. So installing the latest IETHER-00 bundle as said before should help.

http://docs.hp.com/en/9229/AD331AAD332Aoverview.pdf

PS: Now I have a question for myself how to know PCI ID of AB352-60003 :)
rick jones
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Re: UNCLAIMED PCI-X Ethernet

Sameer's post got me digging deeper and indeed the AD331A is based on the Intel 82545GM so what you have could be an AD331A - assuming it has the correct HP subvendor and subproduct IDs. And I now know that the older PCI-X, Broadcom-based GbE NICs have replacements :)
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