Identying unknown PCI-Ethernet card

[Timothy Nibbe]

Sorry, yes I did find it:

IEther-00 B.11.23.0609

Also

GigEther-00 B.11.23.0512
GigEther-01 B.11.23.0609

[Torsten. · Accepted solution]

If you have all the drivers installed, you maybe have a wrong card installed. To be sure you need to pull it out and read the label.

[Duncan Edmonstone]

I'm afraid I agree with Torsten - looking at the internal matrices on cards for HP9000 servers, all cards that use the Broadcom 57xx ASICs seem to use the igelan driver which you obviously already have installed - I wonder if someone has installed an unsupported card in this system...

HTH

Duncan

[Timothy Nibbe]

Thank you all for your replies, I will physically check the card and I will also check the invoices; it sounds like our VAR could have installed an incorrect card.

Thank you again.

[rick jones]

Those hex digits are _probably_ PCI vendor and product IDs. Looking on a Linux system does show that 14e4 is the vendor ID for broadcom, and 1654 is a product ID for a "NetXtreme BCM5705_2 Gigabit Ethernet" interface. Under that in my "pci.ids" file are listed three sets of subvendor/subproduct IDs:

0e11 00e3 NC7761 Gigabit Server Adapter
103c 3100 NC1020 ProLiant Gigabit Server Adapter 32 PCI
103c 3226 NC150T 4-port Gigabit Combo Switch & Adapter

0e11 is a Compaq vendor ID, and 103c is Hewlett-Packard.

An HP-UX NIC driver will only claim a card that has "known to it" HP subvendor ID and subproduct ID, and I'm quite confident that there is no way it would claim a Compaq subvendor ID, nor the subproduct IDs of those other two NICs. I suspect that indeed someone has inserted an unsupported NIC into the system.

The only NICs which will have "known to the HP-UX driver" subproduct IDs are those which are actually sold for HP-UX systems - HP 9000 or Integrity. Something sold for HP ProLiants is not sufficient, even if it is an "HP" NIC.

I suspect the only way that NIC would be claimed in an rp3440 would be to have the rp3440 run Linux, where the drivers are far less discriminating :)

As for which of those three NICs it might be, if there is a way to get ioscan to give subvendor/subproduct IDs that would tell you, otherwise, you are indeed going to have to make a physical examination of the card - unless offline diags can pull the info somehow.

[rick jones]

BTW, the pci.ids file used under Linux (in this case Ubuntu) is maintained via http://pciids.sf.net/