topic Re: A5230 LAN on hp-ux 11.00 UNCLAIMED in Operating System - HP-UX

A5230 LAN on hp-ux 11.00 UNCLAIMED

Mikikiki — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:52:45 GMT

Dear All,
I have installed LAN Card A5230A Card on my hp-ux 11.00.
However IT can not be seen in the ioscan. It says that it is “Unclaimed”.
Driver which needs to be installed is btlan5. I saw many forums which says that it is on Application CD1. However I do not have the cd.
Is there any way to have this btlan5 driver and procedure for installation?
I will appreciate any help on this issue.
Br,

Re: A5230 LAN on hp-ux 11.00 UNCLAIMED

Steven E. Protter — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:07:15 GMT

Shalom,

I believe that this hardware is not certified on HP-UX 11.00 or your hardware.

If this is not the case and the software source is only the application cd you have limited options.

1) You can ask HP support to release the driver. If you have a support contract on another system, they might provide assistance.

2) You can pick up an hold application cd on ebay and try the installation from there.

The problem if you have not guessed is HP doesn't want to support 11.00 and is not likely to cooperate with this problem.

If your system (unrevealed in this post) will run 11.11 and supports the lan card (See http://dos.hp.com) then another possible solution is the 11.11 OS.

SEP

Re: A5230 LAN on hp-ux 11.00 UNCLAIMED

Khairy — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:22:11 GMT

hi,

can you check if its loaded in the kernel.

sam->kernel configuration->drivers

If the driver is not loaded, include the driver, process a new kernel and reboot (choose action from the menu and process a new kernel.

Let us know.

Rgds

Re: A5230 LAN on hp-ux 11.00 UNCLAIMED

TTr — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:23:11 GMT

The card is supported.
http://docs.hp.com/en/supportmatrixEthernetJune05.pdf/supportmatrixEthernetver1June05.pdf?jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN
You need the btlan5 driver which is product J4253AA (swinstall fileset). See if you can get the software in the attachments or ftp in this thread.
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?admit=&threadId=80062

Re: A5230 LAN on hp-ux 11.00 UNCLAIMED

Andrew Rutter — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:25:30 GMT

hi,

the card is supported on 11.0 and is ifact the same card as the part number B5509BA for the workstations.

if you do not have the app cd then do you have a core os cd? its on this also.

Andy

Re: A5230 LAN on hp-ux 11.00 UNCLAIMED

rick jones — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:13:29 GMT

_Was_ the btlan5 driver on the 11.0 Core Os CDs? Btlan5 drove "add-on" cards not the core 10/100, that was the btlan3 driver. Perhaps btlan5 was on one or more "ACE" CDs but I am having trouble recalling if there were any 11.0 "ACE" releases or if all those were 10.20.

It wasn't until 11.11 (11iv1) where btlan[3456] got merged into one big happy driver for all the core and HSC/PCI add-on 10/100BT interfaces.

Re: A5230 LAN on hp-ux 11.00 UNCLAIMED

Mikikiki — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:42:31 GMT

Dear TTr,
Thank you for your reply. I tried to open link you sent me, and I succeed to download sd file. However I could find how to install or how to use this file. Can you please send me some information how to use this sd file to install the driver.
Thank you in advance,

Re: A5230 LAN on hp-ux 11.00 UNCLAIMED

Dennis Handly — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:50:18 GMT

>Can you please send me some information how to use this SD file to install the driver.

If it is a SD depot you can use swinstall:
# swinstall -s $PWD/depot-file \*

Re: A5230 LAN on hp-ux 11.00 UNCLAIMED

Mikikiki — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:58:11 GMT

Hi Dennis,
When I downloaded from the links TTr sent me is some file (6301.sd). I tried to install it with swinstall but it says that it is not depot file and it can not be installed. I don't know if it is corrupted or I need to convert this sd file to a deport file. That is why I need additional instructions.
Br,

Re: A5230 LAN on hp-ux 11.00 UNCLAIMED

Dennis Handly — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:12:00 GMT

>When I downloaded from the links TTr sent me is some file (6301.sd).

I assumed the attachments that Andreas provided were depots. What does "file 6301.sd" show?

Re: A5230 LAN on hp-ux 11.00 UNCLAIMED

Mikikiki — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:14:28 GMT

Hi Dennis,
Please find attached file I could downloaded from the links Andreas provided to me.
Thank you for your effort to help me.
Br,

Re: A5230 LAN on hp-ux 11.00 UNCLAIMED

Dennis Handly — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:45:24 GMT

>Please find attached file

This looks like a SD depot.
swinstall -s $PWD/6301.sd \*

Re: A5230 LAN on hp-ux 11.00 UNCLAIMED

Mikikiki — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:51:39 GMT

Nothing again, following is output of executing the command:

6301.sd file is located in /

# swinstall -s /6301.sd \*

======= 06/29/09 14:37:27 GMT BEGIN swinstall SESSION
(non-interactive)

* Session started for user "root@pocko".

* Beginning Selection
* Target connection succeeded for "pocko:/".
ERROR: There is currently no depot software on host "pocko" at
location "/6301.sd". Make sure that an absolute pathname is
specified for location (beginning with "/").
* Source connection failed for "pocko:/6301.sd".
WARNING: More information may be found in the daemon logfile on this
target (default location is pocko:/var/adm/sw/swagentd.log).
* Selection had errors.

======= 06/29/09 14:37:29 GMT END swinstall SESSION (non-interactive)

Br,

Re: A5230 LAN on hp-ux 11.00 UNCLAIMED

Mikikiki — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:08:47 GMT

Dear Dennis,
I tried to rename the file into B5509BA.depot.
The error I am receiving is different. Does it looks familiar to you?
ERROR: Could not apply the software selection "*" because there are
no product variations that are compatible with the destination
host(s).
* Software selection failed for "pocko:/B5509BA.depot".
ERROR: No software has been selected.
ERROR: Cannot continue the "swinstall" task.
* Selection had errors.

Thank you,

Re: A5230 LAN on hp-ux 11.00 UNCLAIMED

TTr — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:11:48 GMT

The depot is revision B.10.20.01 which means it is for HP-UX 10.20. It is mentioned at the top of the thread with the attachments, I did not notice it the first time around either. It does have the btlan5 driver in it. I would force the installation in your case by setting the "allow installation of incompatible software". I think it will work although I would allow for a small chance that the new kernel might not boot up. Make a copy of /stand/vmunix to /stand/vmunix.good before installing it just incase the new kernel does not boot up. (It is a pain trying to keep track of vmunix.prev if you have to remove the driver when you build the kernel more than once).

swinstall -x allow_incompatible=true -s /6301.sd \*

Re: A5230 LAN on hp-ux 11.00 UNCLAIMED

TTr — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:48:34 GMT

Actually I found and am attaching the 11.00 software.

You have to uncompress it and un-tar it and use the directory "/depot" as the source depot in swinstall and not the tar file itself.

Re: A5230 LAN on hp-ux 11.00 UNCLAIMED

Dennis Handly — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:34:01 GMT

>Nothing again, following is output of executing the command:
>I tried to rename the file into B5509BA.depot.

This is working fine, it is a depot, it just doesn't like your OS version. It helps if you mention what errors you get.
I'm not sure why it gave a better error after you renamed it?

>TTr: un-tar it and use the directory "/depot" as the source depot in swinstall and not the tar file itself.

Is this because you didn't use swpackage(1m) to create a tape depot?

Re: A5230 LAN on hp-ux 11.00 UNCLAIMED

TTr — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:38:32 GMT

>Dennis: Is this because you didn't use swpackage(1m) to create a tape depot?
Right. I used swcopy out of the CD which expected a directory path.

Re: A5230 LAN on hp-ux 11.00 UNCLAIMED

Mikikiki — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:30:28 GMT

Dear TTR, Dennis,
Thank you for your help. Driver you sent me is what I need, however I still have some problems with rebuilding kernel. I receive following errors when I try to install the driver:
Unsatisfied symbol "prf_klog_getcount" in file /usr/conf/lib/libhp-ux
Unsatisfied symbol "prf_klog_getstring" in file /usr/conf/lib/libhp-u
Unsatisfied symbol "set_timedout" in file /usr/conf/lib/libhp-ux.a[sa

Error I received is blocking kernel to rebuild.
Once again thanks for your help.

Re: A5230 LAN on hp-ux 11.00 UNCLAIMED

TTr — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:42:48 GMT

Did you install the 11.00 attached depot? What command did you use?