topic Re: Enabling second network card in Operating System - HP-UX

Enabling second network card

Robert Early_3 — Tue, 16 Apr 2002 14:11:28 GMT

There seems to be a second network card in a HPUX machine we have, in addition to the built-in lan port. It is not enabled - it doesn't appear under lanscan. It does show up under ioscan:
lan 1 8/20/5/8 btlan0 UNCLAIMED UNKNOWN EISA card INP0500
How do I go about enabling/configuring it?

Re: Enabling second network card

Francois Bariselle_3 — Tue, 16 Apr 2002 14:19:03 GMT

Hi,

You can configuring EISA Boards automatically with sam!

1) Shutdown the system and turn the power off.
2) Physically add the board and peripheral device(s).
3) Turn the power on and boot the system. eisa_config runs automatically.
4) Add device drivers using SAM.
If necessary, make device file(s) for the device(s) that will be connected to the board.

Regards.

Frank.

Re: Enabling second network card

harry d brown jr — Tue, 16 Apr 2002 14:22:17 GMT

insf -e

ioscan -fn

live free or die
harry

Re: Enabling second network card

S.K. Chan — Tue, 16 Apr 2002 14:26:11 GMT

It appears the device file is not created yet. Run ..

# insf -e
==> to recreate the device files and

# ioscan -fn
==> check again..

How do you want to configure this LAN card ?

Re: Enabling second network card

Helen French — Tue, 16 Apr 2002 14:27:25 GMT

Hi,

You may need to install the additional software ( J2781AA ?)for configuring this EISA 100BaseT card. Check this document for complete steps:

http://us-support2.external.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=b5fdf4281cda96578e/screen=ckiDisplayDocument?docId=200000032087459

HTH,
Shiju

Re: Enabling second network card

Robert Early_3 — Tue, 16 Apr 2002 14:27:54 GMT

The card has been in the machine for quite some time (through several reboots).
I tried the insf -e but it still hasn't changed in the ioscan:
lan 1 8/20/5/8 btlan0 UNCLAIMED UNKNOWN EISA card INP0500

Re: Enabling second network card

S.K. Chan — Tue, 16 Apr 2002 14:41:11 GMT

If it's an EISA 100Base-T harware part number is A3658A, then you would need J2780BA software to make it work. You should be able to find the sfw from your Application CDs.

Re: Enabling second network card

Robert Early_3 — Tue, 16 Apr 2002 15:07:49 GMT

J2780BA is installed on the system already, according to SAM. eisa_config shows up the board as:
8 !INP0500 Intel EtherExpress(tm) PRO/100 LAN Adapter

What should I do next?

Re: Enabling second network card

Francois Bariselle_3 — Tue, 16 Apr 2002 15:27:05 GMT

Hi again,

1) If you added the board using automatic mode, check /etc/eisa/config.err
2) Ensure that switch and jumper settings match the settings specified in /etc/eisa/config.log

Frank.

Re: Enabling second network card

Sandip Ghosh — Tue, 16 Apr 2002 15:31:10 GMT

Install the additional patch mentioned by Shiju. Then it will install the driver. And if you do a ioscan it will sho as claimed with some different driver name , other than btlan0.

Sandip