topic Re: Upgrading LAN card in Operating System - HP-UX

Upgrading LAN card

uspfoms — Wed, 09 Apr 2003 17:22:45 GMT

I have a RP5450 (L2000) running UX-11.0. My network switch is being replaced by a 1GB switch,so I plan on installing the A4929A PCI 1000Base-T adapter. My question >>>
Will this be plug and pray operation or do I need to configure something b4 I remove my old 10/100 network card ??

Thanks

Re: Upgrading LAN card

S.K. Chan — Wed, 09 Apr 2003 17:42:16 GMT

First you need to install the driver software (driver is gelan). That software is J1642AA (HP PCI/HSC Gigabit Ethernet Driver). It should be available in your application CD. If you don't do this the card will not be claimed by the OS. After you have installed the driver, you can then proceed to install the card. You should leave the old (10/100) card alone first (just to make sure the new Gigabit card is working). When the system is up, run ioscan and lanscan to make sure it's claimed. Then change the interface name in /etc/rc.config.d/netconf to reflect the new card .. (assuming it's lan1).
INTERFACE_NAME[0]="lan1"
Finally shutdown and reboot the system for this to take effect (before that make sure the lan cable is connected to the right swith port). Once it's happy you can then remove the old card.

Re: Upgrading LAN card

S.K. Chan — Wed, 09 Apr 2003 17:56:14 GMT

Additional info ..
You can find the installation guide in /opt/networkdocs. The files are ..
1- gigether_install.pdf
2- gigether_relno.pdf
I can get these docs from my workstation (11i). Not sure if they would be available in a 11.0 installation.

Re: Upgrading LAN card

uspfoms — Wed, 09 Apr 2003 21:28:07 GMT

Thanks for the help, The help .pdf files are not there maybe when I load the driver they will show up ? After looking over HP's web site info on the Network adapters, I may go with the A6825A adapter.
HP has discontinued the
A4929A as of mar 03.

Thanks S.K.