topic Re: lan device files in Operating System - HP-UX

lan device files

Adam Noble — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 11:26:35 GMT

Hi,

I am in the process of installing an OS on an RP420 server which has two partitions. All is going surprisingly well since I have no idea what I'm doing. One problem I do have relates to the LAN device files. As the server was originally a single partition I needed to remove one cell from that partition so I could use the cell to create the 2nd partition. This all went well however obviously I lost visibility to half of the LAN cards and on my 1st partition I had to reconfigure which card it used. Everything actually looks fine and its on the network however I have the following lan devices under /dev lan0 lan1 lan2 lan3 however the actual lanscan devices are lan5 6 7 and 8. I am unsure how its all working but it is. Should I do an rmsf on the files and re-create???

Re: lan device files

Calandrello — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 11:31:13 GMT

friend
execute insf -I it anger to re-create the special archive.

Re: lan device files

Coolmar — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 11:35:59 GMT

I would run insf -e and it will recreate them for you.

Re: lan device files

Adam Noble — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 11:41:04 GMT

Thats the problem the insf -e command is not creating them!!!

Re: lan device files

Roland Piette — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 11:32:23 GMT

Hi Adam,

I suggest to remove first the special file, with -H option, after identifying the path of the NIC card. (lanscan will show it).

rmsf -H

then recreate the special file with the same -H option.

insf -H

Good luck,
Roland

Re: lan device files

DCE — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 11:36:10 GMT

Roland is correct - removing with the rmsf and recreating with insf should take of the issue

Re: lan device files

spex — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 11:41:47 GMT

Hi,

I wonder if a simple 'mv /dev/lan5 /dev/lan0', 'mv /dev/lan6 /dev/lan1', etc. would work. Perhaps someone else could comment on this.

PCS

Re: lan device files

Adam Noble — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 03:32:04 GMT

thanks everyone but a re-boot to install some other software seemed to do the trick they were created on boot.