topic Re: Installed new 10/100Mbit ethernet card in Operating System - HP-UX

Installed new 10/100Mbit ethernet card

Sergej_5 — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 09:24:26 GMT

Hi there! I got HP D Class 9000 machine.
It has one 10mbit ethernet card already on motherboard. I've just installed new 10/100Mbit ethernet card. How can i configure and use new ethernet card NOT the old one?

Brgds,
Sergej

Re: Installed new 10/100Mbit ethernet card

DCE — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 09:29:49 GMT

Simplest way is use SAM - you can disable the old card and enable the one by using drop down menus

Re: Installed new 10/100Mbit ethernet card

Pete Randall — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 09:32:30 GMT

And - be advised that the 10/100Mb card does not do auto-negotiation well. The standard advice with these is to force both the card and the switch port to 100FD.

Pete

Re: Installed new 10/100Mbit ethernet card

Sergej_5 — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 09:33:19 GMT

But i can't see any other cards in Networking and Communications windows?! I see just lan0 (the old one)!!!

S.

Re: Installed new 10/100Mbit ethernet card

Mel Burslan — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 09:33:43 GMT

after you boot the machine, running this command

lanscan

will give you all the lan cards. As you now have two, find the one which is NOT lan0. This is your new card. Most probably lan1

to start using it right here right now, assign it an IP address by using something similar to the following:

ifconfig lan1 inet a.b.c.d netmask 255.255.255.0 up

where a.b.c.d is your ip address and netmask is the most commonly found value but check with your network admins for the right netmask value

to preserve the lan settings at the boot time, you edit the file /etc/rc.config.d/netconf , find the block defining lan0 characteristics, copy the same block and change the index number to 1 above whatever is in the square brackets, change the lan name to lan1, change the IP and netmast to proper values and save it.

After that you may need to setup your routes if you want to use this card as your default route but it is a different subject.

Hope this helps

Re: Installed new 10/100Mbit ethernet card

Mel Burslan — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 09:35:00 GMT

if you do not see the second card in networking, run

ioscan -fnC lan

command, and paste the output here please. More than likely you do not have the right drivers installed for it in the kernel.

Re: Installed new 10/100Mbit ethernet card

DCE — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 09:37:01 GMT

You may have to load the driver for the new card into the kernel. AND you may have to download the driver from the HP web site, if you did not receive it with the card

If an ioscan shows the card as unclaimed you will have to modify the kernel

Re: Installed new 10/100Mbit ethernet card

Sergej_5 — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 09:37:24 GMT

PAste:
# ioscan -fnC lan
Class I H/W Path Driver S/W State H/W Type Description
===================================================================
lan 0 16/6 lan2 CLAIMED INTERFACE Built-in LAN
/dev/diag/lan0 /dev/ether0

That's all!

Re: Installed new 10/100Mbit ethernet card

Sergej_5 — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 09:39:35 GMT

But the "new" one is still not present on the system?!

Ideas?

Re: Installed new 10/100Mbit ethernet card

DCE — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 09:40:24 GMT

the ioscan command:

ioscan -fn | more

look for unclaimed

Re: Installed new 10/100Mbit ethernet card

Andrew Rutter — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 09:41:11 GMT

hi,

Do ioscan to determine if the driver for the card is installed.
If not in a claimed state and recognised correctly then install the driver from the application cd1.
Then when you do your ioscan again you will see the interface correctly and lanscan will work.
Then you will be able to configure the card in sam.

Depending upon which version of hpux you have insatlled will determine which driver set you need.
11 or 11i and you will need the one thats the part number of the card
10.20 and you will need to find out the product number which is relevent to the card

you could have either eisa or hsc ethernet card installed
A4308A ethernet
J3514A hsc

Andy

Re: Installed new 10/100Mbit ethernet card

Mel Burslan — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 09:41:41 GMT

looks ike your system does not even see this card installed, which makes me believe this is not an HP card or even if it is, it has a different bus structure ? Is this a pci card ? Is it from HP? who installed the hardware ? Is there any chance that they can put it in a different slot ?

Re: Installed new 10/100Mbit ethernet card

Patrick Wallek — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 09:42:01 GMT

You probably need to install the drivers for the card.

What is the model of the card you installed?

Re: Installed new 10/100Mbit ethernet card

Sergej_5 — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 09:42:02 GMT

I found this:

unknown -1 20/5/1 ERROR UNKNOWN EISA card HWP1940

Ideas? :)

Re: Installed new 10/100Mbit ethernet card

Andrew Rutter — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 09:43:27 GMT

Hi,

The new one won't show in a short ioscan without the driver installed.

which card do you have installed?

andy

Re: Installed new 10/100Mbit ethernet card

Sergej_5 — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 09:44:31 GMT

I supose it is HP EISA card HWP1940

Re: Installed new 10/100Mbit ethernet card

Andrew Rutter — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 09:45:22 GMT

hi,

if its the HP eisa card(looks like it is) install the A4308A driver package from app cd1

then you will see the card properly

andy

Re: Installed new 10/100Mbit ethernet card

Patrick Wallek — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 09:46:22 GMT

If you have an applications CD, look on CD #1 (I think) for the EISA network card drivers. Install these. Be aware that it will automatically reboot your machine.

Re: Installed new 10/100Mbit ethernet card

Sergej_5 — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 09:55:52 GMT

Hi!
I just found A4308B - Eisa 100BaseT on APP CD1

Is that it?

Brgds,
Sergej

Re: Installed new 10/100Mbit ethernet card

Patrick Wallek — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 10:01:43 GMT

Yes, that should be it.