10/100BT eisa card

[Helen Herring]

What determines whether 10 or 100 of a 10/100 card is used. D380 server with core 10BT lan card and add on 10/100BT eisa lan card. Looks like system is only accessing 10 side of 10/100. Checked all config files and everything looks o.k. Only 10 side of card (back of cabinet) is flashing.

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Hi Kathy,

Since you have an EISA 10/100BT card, yes the LED's should be flashing with activity. (The HSC cards do not - just a solid LINK LED.).

I suspect you have not configured the interface. I usually turn off the internal 10BaseT and configure just the 100BaseT.

By the way, if you are running 64-bit 11.x you must remove all the EISA cards.

1) Do a lanscan and note the devices displayed.
Do all the interfaces show UP Hardware States?
2) Do an ifconfig lan0 (lan1 or whatever)
Do you show an up state?

I suspect that you have not setup the conf file
/etc/rc.config.d/hpeisabtconf or very close to that); you can only set these cards to half-duplex
Then check your settings in /etc/rc.config.d/netconf.

Clay

[Helen Herring]

I'm only talking about the 10/100. In the back of the cabinet, the 10/100 card has a LED on the right side(10) and a LED on the left side(100). Only the right LED is flashing. (The core 10 baseT card is way down toward the bottom of the cabinet). We're running 32 bit. A lanscan shows the the 10/100 UP and with the correct station address. ioscan -fnC lan shows the correct driver, btlan0 and CLAIMED. The netconf file is setup and the config file is hpeisabtconf and it's O.K. What determines whether the system sees the 10 or 100 of the one 10/100 lan card?

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Hi Kathy,

It appears that you are running at 10MB; however, you can run the lanadmin command interactively to query the card itself.

First run lanscan and note the 'NMID' of the desired interface.

You can set the speed using lanadmin as well but to make the changes permanent you need to edit hpeisabtconf and set HP_EISABT_SPEED=100HD
and then have your network admin HARD set the switch speed/duplex to 100HD; I would avoid auto negotiate; it is not reliable.

Clay

[Helen Herring]

The NMID is 2. How is this used in lanadmin. How do I change the speed in lanadmin? What exactly is hard set the switch speed. What is that on - the switch I mean?

[A. Clay Stephenson]

'HARD' set means to set the ethernet switch port on the other end of the cable to 100 half-duplex rather than setting it to auto-negotiate
(a 'SOFT' setting).

You didn't mention which OS you are running
so the lanadmin works a little differently.

I'll user nmid = 2 ==> lan2 for these examples:

On 10.20 to display the settings
lanadmin -s -x 2 (The -x to display may not work unless some networking patches are installed; if you keep your machines fairly up to date - no problem)

To change the speed
lanadmin -S speed 2

On 11.x to display the speed:
lanadmin -s -x lan1

To change -S speed lan1

man lanadmin for details.

[Helen Herring]

HP9000 D380 - we were running 11.0 and just upgraded to 11i. I sure thought the 100 side of the 10/100 was working before the upgrade. This is our development server. The netconf and configuration file looks like it did before the upgrade to 11i.