Unable to set speed/duplex of a J3514A NIC in a K Server

[Steve Lemons_1]

I have a K server with a J3514A card installed. I have installed the driver J3620BA and the drive is in the kernel. Here is the output from "what /stand/vmunix | grep btlan"

btlan4.c GSC 100BT Patch: PHNE_15414 (10.20) PHNE_15415 (11.0) / Dart 40 $Revision: 4.16 $ $Date: 98/06/17 14:06:46 $

When I tried to configure the NIC from SAM, I get the following messages:

"Configuration of Speed, Duplex and Autonegotiation are not supported with this version of the Network Interface driver. Please install the latest revision of the driver product/patch to enable this or contact your support personnel for further assistance."

So I tried to set the speed/duplex from lanadmin, this didn't work either.

I have installed the latest patch.

Anybody have any ideas what is wrong?

Thanks

[linuxfan]

Hi Steve,

You are using PHNE_15415, but I believe you will atleast need the patch PHNE_17660(the latest is PHNE_22461, with a dependencies on PHNE_18049 and PHNE_18075)

The patch description for PHNE_17660 says
/Begin/
SAM does not support altering speed (10 or 100Mbps) and duplex mode (half or full) settings on the interface
End/
Also this is a very good link for diagnosing lan card problems

http://techsolutions.hp.com/fe/diagnostic.html

-HTH
Ramesh

[Steve Lemons_1]

I am sorry, I failed to mention the server is running 10.20.

I looked up the patches you mentioned, PHNE_17660 and PHNE_22461, they are for 11.0.

I checked the guide and the only thing I haven't tried is setting auto-negotiation.

[linuxfan]

Hi Steve,

can you tell us what patches do you have specifically for sam, arpa, lan.

you could do something like
swlist -l product |egrep -i "ARPA|lan|100|sam"

because there is no patch PHNE_15414 for 10.20 in the patch database.

-Regards
Ramesh

[linuxfan]

Hi Steve,

On 10.20 you would atleast need the patch PHNE_18762(latest is PHNE_22216 with dependcies on PHKL_11352 and PHNE_18924).

Description of patch PHNE_18762 says
/Begin/
1. SAM does not support altering speed (10 or 100Mbps) and duplex mode (half or full) settings on the interface.
2. Applications (including lanadmin) receive 10 for 10Mbps or 100 for 100Mbps for the speed value in the ifSpeed field of the mib structure. lanadmin therefore displays 10 or 100 for the interface (link) speed.
3. 'lanadmin -x [nmid]' display does not indicate whether the card is running in auto-negotiation or manual mode.
4. lanadmin cannot alter the Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) size value of the interface.
5. Applications do not receive outbound traffic from the interface when they enable promiscuous mode on the interface.
6. Spinlock deadlock panics.
7. Unable to set the card to auto-negotiation mode by assigning "auto_on" to SPEED variable in /etc/rc.config.d/hpgsc100conf.
8. The actual link configuration does not reflect what is manually configured in /etc/rc.config.d/hpgsc100conf.

/End/

-HTH
Ramesh

[Steve Lemons_1]

Here is the ouput from

swlist -l product |egrep -i "ARPA|lan|100|sam"

100BT-EISA-FMT B.10.20.02 100BT/9000 formatter product.
100BT-EISA-RUN B.10.20.02 100BT/9000 EISA command products.
100BT-GSC-FMT B.10.20.07 100BT/9000 formatter product.
100BT-GSC-KRN B.10.20.07 100BT/9000 GSC kernel products.
100BT-GSC-RUN B.10.20.07 100BT/9000 GSC command products.
BNR_0023 B.10.00.00.AA s700_800 10.20 vt100/xterm terminfo fix
BNR_0100 B.10.00.00.AA Year 2000 HP-UX Operating System Patch To
ol
Networking B.10.20 HP-UX_10.0_Lanlink_Product
PHCO_12236 B.10.00.00.AA cumulative SAM trusted user patch.
PHCO_17218 B.10.00.00.AA cumulative fix for SAM convert/unconvert
PHCO_21186 B.10.00.00.AA Cumulative SAM/ObAM Patch.
PHCO_8246 B.10.00.00.AA for SAM to read terminal control database

PHCO_8247 B.10.00.00.AA for SAM to update terminal control databa
se
PHNE_19936 B.10.00.00.AA cumulative ARPA Transport patch
PHNE_21251 B.10.00.00.AA Built-in PCI 100BASE-T patch
PHNE_22216 B.10.00.00.AA HSC 100BT lan cumulative patch
PHNE_22352 B.10.00.00.AA LAN products cumulative Patch

I have patch PHNE_22216 with PHKL_16751 and PHNE_22352, which seem to replace PHKL_11352 and PHNE_18924.

[linuxfan]

Hi,

Were any of the patches installed after the drivers were installed?

Can you do a
swlist -a state -l fileset |egrep -v "config|\#"
(to check if any of fileset aren't configured)

Also can you do a
what /usr/sbin/lanadmin
and show its output

-Ramesh

[Steve Lemons_1]

Originally the server had the J3623BA driver for the 700 series workstations installed with all the patches. I uninstalled the J3623BA driver and installed J3620BA driver. I didn't reapply the patches.

I did a

swlist -a state -l fileset |egrep -v "config|\#"

Here is the output:

CCASE-MVFS.ccase-mvfs installed
PHCO_22273.PHCO_22273 installed
PHCO_22275.PHCO_22275 installed
PHCO_22364.PHCO_22364 installed
PHCO_22449.PHCO_22449 installed
PHKL_22158.PHKL_22158 installed
PHKL_22309.PHKL_22309 installed
PHNE_18666.PHNE_18666 installed
PHNE_19936.PHNE_19936 installed
PHNE_22057.PHNE_22057 installed
PHNE_22085.PHNE_22085 installed
PHSS_21827.PHSS_21827 installed
PHSS_21957.PHSS_21957 installed
PHSS_21958.PHSS_21958 installed

The output from "what /usr/sbin/lanadmin":

lanadmin.c: $Revision: 1.3.116.11 $ B.10.20 PHNE_22351(700)/PHNE_22352 (800) LAN: Version: B.10.10 $Date: 96/05/09 11:26:21 $

BTW, thanks for your help.

[linuxfan]

Hi Steven,

Hmm, that definitely is a problem, a bunch of critical patches are in installed state.
The first thing you can do(man swconfig for help)
swconfig \*

This would configure all the filesets on the system and then recheck the state of all the filesets
swlist -a state -l fileset |egrep -v "config|\#"

If everything shows up as configured then try changing your setting, if not you may have to reinstall the LAN/ARPA/SAM/dependency patches and reboot.

No problem about the help, these forums are for that purpose and if you appreciate the help, do assign the points ;)

-Regards
Ramesh

[Steve Lemons_1]

Well, the swconfig did configure all the unconfigured products, but it didn't help the NIC any. I still get the error messages about not having the ablilty to change the speed/duplex settings.

I'll reinstall the patches and see if that helps.

Hopefully, I can get time in the next day or two for a reboot. I'll let you know how it goes.