topic Re: nic card in Operating System - HP-UX

nic card

Greg Butler — Wed, 09 Apr 2003 21:13:32 GMT

I am trying to change lan1 to 100 full duplex through sam and I get the following error:

/ The driver specific configuration file in /etc/rc.config.d doesn't
| support the configuration of Speed, Duplex and Autonegotiation
| parameters through SAM. Please copy the latest configuration file
| from /usr/newconfig/etc/rc.config.d directory to enable this or
|
What config file can I edit to allow this to happen ??

Re: nic card

Michael Tully — Wed, 09 Apr 2003 21:38:18 GMT

Do yourself a favour and do it from the command line:

# lanadmin -X 100FD 0 (assuming it is lan card 0)

depending on the actual card used, as to which config file should be updated. You can find out easily enough from your ioscan output.

btlan hpbtlanconf
btlan0 hpeisabtconf
btlan1 hpbasetconf
btlan3 hpbase100conf Internal (core) LAN card
btlan4 hpgsc100conf
btlan5 hppci100conf "external" PCI card A5230A
btlan6 hpsppci100conf V-class PCI lan card
gelan hpgelanconf GigaBit card A4926A

Re: nic card

Kent Ostby — Wed, 09 Apr 2003 21:38:21 GMT

What lan driver is associated with lan1.

You can run "ioscan -fnC lan" to find out.

Re: nic card

S.K. Chan — Wed, 09 Apr 2003 21:45:54 GMT

Normally this should work just fine (ie using SAM) which saves you some time to have to edit the config file manually, etc, etc. It's either you're entering the wrong info/parameter in SAM or you got yourself a "buggy" SAM.

Re: nic card

Wilfred Chau_1 — Wed, 09 Apr 2003 23:31:12 GMT

You have to change autonegotiation off in order to set it to 100BT full

assuming your nic uses the btlan driver,

cd /etc/rc.config.d/
vi hpbtlanconf

HP_BTLAN_INTERFACE_NAME[0]=lan0
HP_BTLAN_STATION_ADDRESS[0]=
HP_BTLAN_SPEED[0]=100FD

** replace lan0 for your NIC

/sbin/init.d/hpbtlan stop
/sbin/init.d/hpbtlan start

Re: nic card

KCS_1 — Wed, 09 Apr 2003 23:44:31 GMT

Hi,

why don't you look for recenly SAM patch??

It's looks like SAM problem.

Re: nic card

Michael Steele_2 — Thu, 10 Apr 2003 00:35:22 GMT

I concur, patch SAM.

Basic rule of being a HP-UX system administrator, you can't trouble shoot with SAM, its just a gui interface to the core O/S.

And the lanadmin procedure listed above is just fine for this.

Re: nic card

Ron Kinner — Thu, 10 Apr 2003 15:14:11 GMT

Just a reminder to set the switch port to 100 FD at the same time. Autonegotiate only works if both ends of the circuit are set to auto and you will wind up with a duplex mismatch if you don't set the switch to FD at the same time.

Ron