topic Identying unknown PCI-Ethernet card in Operating System - HP-UX

Identying unknown PCI-Ethernet card

Timothy Nibbe — Thu, 07 May 2009 11:03:17 GMT

I have an rp3440 that I believe has two Ethernet NICs. One of the NICs is identified and working, the other appears to not have been identified fully. All of the hardware on this server is either stock from the factory or is an HP part that was added by an HP VAR.

Is there any way, short of taking the server down to physically look at the card, to verify whether it actually is a NIC and to make it work if it is indeed a NIC?

A lanscan shows this:

Hardware Station Crd Hdw Net-Interface NM MAC HP-DLPI DLPI
Path Address In# State NamePPA ID Type Support Mjr#
0/1/2/0 0x00163573A1B8 0 UP lan0 snap0 1 ETHER Yes 119

An ioscan shows this:

0/1/2/0 lan HP PCI 1000Base-T Core
0/6/1/0 unknown PCI Ethernet (14e41654)

An ioscan -fn shows this:

lan 0 0/1/2/0 igelan CLAIMED INTERFACE HP PCI 1000Base-T Core
unknown -1 0/6/1/0 UNCLAIMED UNKNOWN PCI Ethernet (14e41654)

SAM also does not show this device

Re: Identying unknown PCI-Ethernet card

Torsten. — Thu, 07 May 2009 11:13:54 GMT

You should consider to take a look at the card in slot 0/6/1 = slot 4 (bottom slot).

Re: Identying unknown PCI-Ethernet card

Torsten. — Thu, 07 May 2009 11:25:49 GMT

It's for sure a NIC, because it is named " PCI Ethernet".

Do you have the "iether" driver installed?

(the driver name will depend on the OS version you have installed).

Re: Identying unknown PCI-Ethernet card

mobidyc — Thu, 07 May 2009 11:33:42 GMT

Hello,

Google find it :
14E41654: NetXtreme BCM5705_2 Gigabit Ethernet

you will find it at HP:
http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF06c/A10-51210-1130359-332466-1130359-1102335-1102336-1102337.html

Regards,
Cedrick Gaillard

Re: Identying unknown PCI-Ethernet card

Torsten. — Thu, 07 May 2009 11:39:11 GMT

@mobidyc:

According to the quickspecs this would be a PCIe card - but this server has no PCIe slots ...

So the chip may be the same, but the card is a different one.

Re: Identying unknown PCI-Ethernet card

Timothy Nibbe — Thu, 07 May 2009 11:41:57 GMT

I have been looking at the HP support info for the Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit PCI-E adapter and it shows that it is used on ProLiant servers and is a Windows PnP device, with no mention of HP-UX. I am using 11.23

Re: Identying unknown PCI-Ethernet card

Torsten. — Thu, 07 May 2009 11:48:33 GMT

Check with swlist if you have the following installed:

IEther-00
GigEther-01
GigEther-00

Re: Identying unknown PCI-Ethernet card

Timothy Nibbe — Thu, 07 May 2009 11:59:44 GMT

I am showing none of those *Ether* drivers installed. I am going to check the installed drivers on my other rp-3440's. I am not sure that the NICs are the same as the two servers with the problem were ordered at a different time than the other servers. The other rp-3440's also have four NICs rather than just two. The servers are located in a remote datacenter, so I can't visually check them right now.

Re: Identying unknown PCI-Ethernet card

Torsten. — Thu, 07 May 2009 12:07:39 GMT

None? Unlikely.
At least the IEther is an always-installed driver:

# swlist
...
IEther-00 B.11.23.0706.01 IEther;HW=A7011/A7012/AB352/AB290/AB545/
AD193/AD194/AD331/AD332/AD337/AD338

Re: Identying unknown PCI-Ethernet card

Timothy Nibbe — Thu, 07 May 2009 12:07:55 GMT

All of my other rp3440's are using different adapters, all reporting HP part numbers.

Re: Identying unknown PCI-Ethernet card

Timothy Nibbe — Thu, 07 May 2009 12:13:40 GMT

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

Re: Identying unknown PCI-Ethernet card

Torsten. — Thu, 07 May 2009 12:18:10 GMT

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.

Re: Identying unknown PCI-Ethernet card

Duncan Edmonstone — Thu, 07 May 2009 12:40:53 GMT

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

Re: Identying unknown PCI-Ethernet card

Timothy Nibbe — Thu, 07 May 2009 12:45:00 GMT

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.

Re: Identying unknown PCI-Ethernet card

rick jones — Thu, 07 May 2009 23:55:34 GMT

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.

Re: Identying unknown PCI-Ethernet card

rick jones — Thu, 07 May 2009 23:58:24 GMT

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