topic Re: NIC problems in Operating System - HP-UX

NIC problems

Melissa Murphy — Tue, 24 Jul 2001 20:52:43 GMT

I'm working with a number of HP K460s. I installed HP-UX 11.00 and the provided Support Plus patch CD on all of them. The default NIC is a 10baseT card, though they all have 100baseT expansion cards. At the moment, I only have one of the six machines working with the 100baseT card. On this computer I went into SAM => Kernel Configuration => Drivers and chose btlan1 and rebuilt the kernel and all was good. None of the other machines see a btlan1. I read something about putting it in /stand/build/system and then mk_kernel, which I guess is the same thing that SAM does. I don't think it has the drivers loaded anywhere on the system. Should the drivers have been included when I installed the entire OS fresh? I have application software CDs, but I'm not really sure what to do with them. I know the part number is A34954 or something like that and that there is a directory with that name on the first application software CD. What do I need to do to get these drivers for the NIC on the system? And if I'm wrong and they are there, how can I get to them? Thank you so much.

Melissa

Re: NIC problems

melvyn burnard — Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:05:49 GMT

You need to use swinstall to install the drivers for these cards on your systems.
Select the A3495A product and proceed from there.
This will cause an automatice kernel rebuild and a reboot.

Re: NIC problems

Ajay Sishodia — Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:06:00 GMT

Melissa,

You are right there. The product number that you see on the back of the card is actually the software too on the CD. So just mount the CD, run swinstall and select the software (identified with the product number) and install it. This will install the driver and reboot the system.

later
Ajay

Re: NIC problems

Melissa Murphy — Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:27:52 GMT

Sounds good to me - just one problem though. I cd to /cdrom/A3495A and there's nothing in there. There's also a directory called /cdrom/catalog/A3495A and in there is a pfiles directory with INFO and INDEX -- neither of which really seems too helpful:
# cat INFO
control_file
path INDEX
size 2175
mode 0444
mtime 974098842
tag INDEX
control_file
path INFO
size 198
mode 0444
mtime 974098842
tag INFO

INDEX tells me the products to install and that they are part of bundle J2759BA. I go to /cdrom/J2759BA and it has nothing in there either. I feel like I'm going around in circles a bit. And I just really missing something here? :)

Thanks
Melissa

Re: NIC problems

Michael Tully — Tue, 24 Jul 2001 22:44:43 GMT

Hi Melissa,

If you know what the product No. is for the
driver software you maybe halfway there. To
load it mount the CD. Use ioscan -funC disk
to find it if needed.

# mount /dev/dsk/cXtXdX /cdrom
# swinstall (use the options that correspond
for you, source /cdrom)
This will bring up a screen of the products on
the CD. Choose the software product and mark
it from the actions menu, then install from
the same menu. This may need to be rebooted??

I only have a K580 which has a PCI card which
is 'btlan4'. What does an ioscan show you?
Does you kernel in SAM have a 'btlan3'?

To make a new kernel at the command line
just follow the below procedure.

# cd /stand/build
# /usr/lbin/sysadm/system_prep -s system
# vi system (and add the driver name to
any line, probably near the one(s) marked
'lan')
save file

# /usr/sbin/mk_kernel -s system (to regen
the kernel)

# /usr/sbin/kmupdate

Take note of the existing kernel name

# cd /

Reboot or shutdown

# shutdown -r -y 0

HTH
Michael