Problem in changing the built in network card to 100FD.

[dunstan]

Hello,
I am trying to change the lan card (built in) to 100fd (currently 100hd). when I use the SAM, it says that the driver or patches needed to change to 100FD.
When I use lanadmin command, it says, the NIC support 10HD or 100HD.
So can someone help me that, is it possible to change to 100FD and what patch or drivers I needed. Thanks.

The machine details:
HPUX 10.20
D Class
NIC - PCI(10110009) Built in 1
Driver - btlan4
what /stand/vmunix |grep btlan shows:
btlan4.c csc 100bt patch:PHNE_13940 Revision 3.10 date 98/2/23.
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[Torsten.]

AFAIR all built-in NICs on a D-class server are only 10 base T, so they cannot do 100HD/FD.

What card is it?

(lanscan / ioscan will probably tell you)

[V. Nyga]

Hi,

>NIC - PCI(10110009) Built in 1
Do you have a a built-in ethernet card?
Which one?

Some older cards only can support 100HD, so you should need an upgrade of your (no longer supported) server. This seems to be difficult ...

Volkmar

[Pete Randall]

Torsten is absolutely correct. 10FD is the best that the D class built-in will do.


Pete

[V. Nyga]

... also there are no patches available anymore for 10.20 ...

[dunstan]

please see the lanscan and ioscan details:


lanscan:

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hardware Station Crd Hardware Net-Interface NM MAC HP DLPI Mjr
Path Address In# State NameUnit State ID Type Support Num
8/8/1/0 0x001083047698 6 UP lan6 UP 7 ETHER Yes 119

Extended Station LLC Encapsulation
Address Methods
0x001083047698 IEEE HPEXTIEEE SNAP ETHER NOVELL
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

ioscan:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
cri1:[/stand]#ioscan -fnC lan
Class I H/W Path Driver S/W State H/W Type Description
========================================================================
lan 6 8/8/1/0 btlan4 CLAIMED INTERFACE PCI(10110009) -- Built-in #1
lan 1 8/12.5 fcT1_cntl CLAIMED INTERFACE HP Fibre Channel Mass Storage Cntl
/dev/fcms1
lan 0 8/16/6 lan2 CLAIMED INTERFACE Built-in LAN
/dev/diag/lan0 /dev/ether0 /dev/lan0
lan 2 8/20/5/1 btlan0 CLAIMED INTERFACE EISA card INP0500
lan 4 8/20/5/8 btlan0 CLAIMED INTERFACE EISA card INP0500
lan 5 10/12.5 fcT1_cntl CLAIMED INTERFACE HP Fibre Channel Mass Storage Cntl
/dev/fcms5

[Torsten.]

The card at 8/16/6 is built-in, the other card is probably in slot 2.

It could be helpful if you can get the part or model number of this card - is there any sticker?

[Torsten.]

Can you please post the contents of

/etc/rc.config.d/hpgsc100conf

[dunstan]

i am sorry, that the 8/8/1/0 is not built in.
The built in card is 8/16/6 which labeled as LAN 10 Base -T.

8/8/1/0 the only lable i can see is LNK 100 MBps. and the SAM shows the card type is Fast Ethernet.

Thanks.

[dunstan]

#####################################################################
# @(#) hpGSC100conf PHNE_13940 $Revision: 1.2 $ $Date: 98/01/29 12:00:01 $
# hpGSC100conf : contains configuration values for HP 100Mb interfaces
#
# HP_GSC100_INTERFACE_NAME Name of interface (lan0, lan1...)
# HP_GSC100_STATION_ADDRESS Station address of interface
# configured through lanadmin(1m)
# Prefixed with "0x".
# HP_GSC100_DUPLEX Half or full duplex mode (half is default)
#
# HP_GSC100_SPEED Manually set the driver's speed. Can be one
# of: 10HD, 10FD, 100HD, 100FD, auto_on
#
# The interface name, major number, card instance and nmid may be
# obtained from the lanscan(1m) command.
#
# The station address and duplex are set through the lanadmin(1m) command.
#
#####################################################################

HP_GSC100_INTERFACE_NAME[0]=lan6
HP_GSC100_STATION_ADDRESS[0]=
HP_GSC100_SPEED[0]=


###########################################################################
# The HP_GSC100_INIT_ARGS are reserved by HP. They are NOT user changable.

HP_GSC100_INIT_ARGS="HP_GSC100_STATION_ADDRESS HP_GSC100_DUPLEX"


# End of hpGSC100conf configuration file
HP_GSC100_DUPLEX[0]=