topic Re: Second LAN card in Operating System - HP-UX

Second LAN card

Kaare Einar Andreassen — Tue, 14 Jan 2003 13:33:24 GMT

Can anyone give me info no how to install a second lan card (lan1) on my b2000 HP-UX11?
How do I know what to instal into kernel?
Are there any drivers that has to be installed?

As You understand I'm not an experienced UNIX man

Re: Second LAN card

harry d brown jr — Tue, 14 Jan 2003 13:35:13 GMT

It depends. What kind of lan card are you going to install? Usually your application CD's would contain software if so needed. But usually, today, btlan is fine.

live free or die
harry

Re: Second LAN card

Eugeny Brychkov — Tue, 14 Jan 2003 13:38:58 GMT

If this card is supported to be installed into B2000 then simply install it. After booting run 'ioscan -fn' to see if workstation sees new lan interface. Then pay attention to driver assigned, instance number (I) and device file. If all will be correct (driver is known - btlanX, I!=-1 and device file, for example, /dev/lan2) then required drivers are already in the kernel. If not - instance number =-1, driver is unknown, no device file was created then you need to install drivers for the card (should be on CDs shipped with OS). If you would tell us which card you want to install we can help to locate driver
Eugeny

Re: Second LAN card

Steven E. Protter — Tue, 14 Jan 2003 13:41:29 GMT

I you haven't bought it yet a small recommendation.

Buy HP.

The necessary btlan drives are probably in the kernel and any drivers are either on the core os cd, the applications cd or the software.hp.com website.

If you buy a card certified for your box, lots of people can help you on this forum. Also the part number(software) you'll need to download or find on the cd's will be right on the certification matrix.

For the kernel part, just start sam as root user, and choose the drivers option. The rest is pretty much as menu driven as the first part.

Steve

Re: Second LAN card

Kaare Einar Andreassen — Tue, 14 Jan 2003 13:49:47 GMT

LAncard is ANA-6911A/TX HP, and ioscan tells me that it is unclamed and unkonwn

Re: Second LAN card

Eugeny Brychkov — Tue, 14 Jan 2003 14:02:08 GMT

http://www.hp.com/workstations/products/accessories/risc/io_cards/b5509ba/faqs.html
It is supported and need additional software installation
Eugeny

Re: Second LAN card

Eugeny Brychkov — Tue, 14 Jan 2003 14:07:51 GMT

Ok. Card product number is B5509BA, sofware is the same: B5509BA. Driver is btlan5.
Please search this software on your application CDs
Eugeny

Re: Second LAN card

Kaare Einar Andreassen — Tue, 14 Jan 2003 15:05:37 GMT

Tanks for all help, but....?

I found a folder on my app. cd (B5509BA) but it seams like it's empty.
How do I instal from this CD (hp-ux 11.0 application software)
Can I find the nessesary software on the net?

Re: Second LAN card

Eugeny Brychkov — Tue, 14 Jan 2003 15:25:57 GMT

Insert this CD into CDROM drive, mount it and start swinstall. Choose local host and CDROM source and directory where you mounted CD. Browse through list of software products to find needed one. Mark it and then go to Actions and select Install
Eugeny

Re: Second LAN card

Kaare Einar Andreassen — Wed, 15 Jan 2003 08:10:59 GMT

Tanks for all help!
New lan card found and recognised!

Re: Second LAN card

rick jones — Wed, 15 Jan 2003 18:05:01 GMT

FWIW, in HP-UX 11i the drivers for the DEC 2114X-based 100BT cards (ie the btlan3, btlan4, btlan5, and btlan6 drivers for the HSC and PCI and core 100BT cards (except core on IPF, which is an Intel chip IIRC)) have been merged into one driver that comes along with the base OS.