NIC CARD

[Andrew Luis Arruza]

I have an HP9000 L class with three 10/100 Base T NIC cards installed.
At the present time only one of the cards is 'active.'
When I go into sam the other two cards do not show up on the list. When I do an ioscan they show up as 'unknown' PCI ETHERNET (10110019). The one that works shows up as 'lan' and then the PCI ETHERNET.
There cards do not show up when I do an lanscan.
The cards were installed by HP when the server was purchased.
How do I get the cards to show up in sam, for instance, so I can enable them?
Any/all help is greatly appreciated.

[Anthony deRito]

Andrew, take a look at /etc/rc.log. Look for any output errors when the /sbin/init.d/net startup script ran.

It should look something like this:

Configure LAN interfaces
Output from "/sbin/rc2.d/S008net.sd start":
----------------------------

The net startup script will call ifconfig (which assigns IP) and lanconfig (which configures the interface protocol). These commands use variables located in /etc/rc.config.d/netconf. How does this file look? Are all the interfaces defined? Check to see how many variables you have in this file that resemble INTERFACE_NAME[n].

Tony

[Andrew Luis Arruza]

Tony,
When I look in /etc/rc.log I see:
configure LAN interfaces
Output from "/sbin/rc2.d/S008net start"
I did not see any output errors and my system had "net" and not "net.sd." Don't know if that is significant.
Andy

[Anthony deRito]

OK that good. How about the /etc/rc.config.d/netconf file?

Tony

[Andrew Luis Arruza]

Tony,
When I go into /etc/rc.config.d/netconf and compare the server that does not have all the NIC's showing up with one that does I see the following:
There is only one INTERFACE_NAME[0] in the server that has only one card showing up. The other server also has INTERFACE_NAME[1].
Should I add another to the server?
Also, if I add this do I have to re-run any process to have it read the 'netconf' file?
Thanks again.
Andy

[Anthony deRito · Accepted solution]

Yes, you need to create a new set of routing variables in the /etc/rc.config.d/netconf file for each network interface. Whenever you create a new set of variables, don't forget to increment the number in square brackets.

To be safe, you should reboot the host after you add the variables.

Tony