topic Re: Network card driver in Operating System - HP-UX

Network card driver

Ali Imran Abbas — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 18:41:23 GMT

I have two lan cards in my virtual partition. The ioscan output for this virtual partition is as follows:

ioscan -fnC lan
Class I H/W Path Driver S/W State H/W Type Description
====================================================================
lan 5 1/0/4/0/0 gelan CLAIMED INTERFACE HP A4929A PCI 1000Base-T Adapter
lan 8 1/0/14/0/0 gelan CLAIMED INTERFACE HP A4929A PCI 1000Base-T Adapter

They are not starting during system startup. I have the following messages when the system is starting up.

Configure HP igelan Gigabit Ethernet interfaces ..................... OK
Configure HP iether Gigabit Ethernet interfaces ..................... OK
Configure HP Gigabit Ethernet interfaces ............................ FAIL *
Configure HP Ethernet interfaces .................................... OK
Create PCI FDDI device files. ....................................... OK
Configure HP 100BASE-T interfaces ................................... N/A
Configure VLAN interfaces ........................................... OK
Configure LAN interfaces ............................................ FAIL *

Looks like that these LAN cards are not starting with the system. I can ping myself from this virtual partition but cannot ping other systems on the network.

Can some one give me some direction pls.

Re: Network card driver

Jeeshan — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 18:57:33 GMT

check in the routing information.

Is the lan has default routing?
did you set the gateway address?

please check

Re: Network card driver

OldSchool — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 18:58:49 GMT

check /etc/rc.log.....

start by looking at messages related to /sbin/rc2.d...failed message or non-zero exit code regarding a script for the cards.

then examine the script to see what it's doing.

Re: Network card driver

Ali Imran Abbas — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 19:01:15 GMT

Its not pinging the other vpar which is on the same subnet as this one.

I think there is some driver problem:

It is HP A4929A PCI 1000Base-T adapter. Can u pls tell me where to get its driver and how to install in the server.

Re: Network card driver

Murat SULUHAN — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 19:08:43 GMT

Hi Ali Imran

GigEther-00 gelan A4929A PCI 1000Base-T (gigabit over copper) card

Configure HP igelan Gigabit Ethernet interfaces ..................... OK

I think you have already installed GigEther-00 so your cards working.

Best Regards
Murat

Re: Network card driver

Ali Imran Abbas — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 19:25:02 GMT

Thats the output from rc.log

Configure HP Gigabit Ethernet interfaces
Output from "/sbin/rc2.d/S308hpgelan start":
----------------------------
ERROR: (PPA: ) : Could not find device lan0 in lanscan output . Make sure this
device exists.
"/sbin/rc2.d/S308hpgelan start" FAILED

And following about the lan services

Configure LAN interfaces
Output from "/sbin/rc2.d/S340net start":
----------------------------
ERROR: lan0 interface: ifconfig: no such interface
ERROR: lan7 interface: ifconfig: no such interface
"/sbin/rc2.d/S340net start" FAILED

The ioscan output is:

usunx51:# ioscan -fnC lan
Class I H/W Path Driver S/W State H/W Type Description
====================================================================
lan 5 1/0/4/0/0 gelan CLAIMED INTERFACE HP A4929A PCI 1000Base-T Adapter
lan 6 1/0/9/0/0 btlan CLAIMED INTERFACE HP A5230A/B5509BA PCI 10/100Base-TX Addon
/dev/diag/lan6 /dev/ether6 /dev/lan6
lan 8 1/0/14/0/0 gelan CLAIMED INTERFACE HP A4929A PCI 1000Base-T Adapter

I think there is some mismatch in instance number in rc starting scripts, need suggestions pls.

Re: Network card driver

radkol — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 19:33:37 GMT

Hi Ali,

Please check your lan[number] interfaces available in vpar, try lanscan.
The error you have form hpigelanconf is due to in /etc/rc.conf.d/hpigelanconf some settings has been done for lan0 but lan0 is not avaialabe or use different driver than igelan.

Check what are you lan interfaces with lanscan and ioscan -fnk then configure if needed proper interface in hpigelanconf file.

The second error is almost the same , it seems you have configurations for lan0 and lan7 in /etc/rc.config.d/netconf but such interfaces are not available. Correct the file with proper interfaces or delete the lines for not existing and not used one.

If you think you are missing device files, then do:

insf -e

If you still have problems, please provide us with:
ioscan -fn
insf -e
lanscan

cat /etc/rc.config.d/netconf
cat /etc/rc.config.d/hpigelanconf

Cheers
Radko

Re: Network card driver

Ali Imran Abbas — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 20:27:25 GMT

Hey Radko,

I think there is some problem in instance numbers for lan adaptors. Let me tell u a little about installation:

I installed hp-ux first in the boot disks of vpars and then created the vpars. Can u further pls eloborate the process to resolve this issue.

Re: Network card driver

radkol — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 14:54:38 GMT

Hi Ali,

Could you please provide the output from commands I asked you?

Let see what's the current configuration and then we will see how to help you.

Cheers

Re: Network card driver

Torsten. — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 07:24:21 GMT

Your initial ioscan shows 2 NICs, but your startup log complains about lan0 and lan7!

I guess your netconf contains a config for NIC that no longer belongs to this vPar.

run

# lanscan

and compare to your setup in
/etc/rc.config.d/netconf