A3515A nic card....speed change

[Kathleen]

I am trying to change the speed of my A3515A card from 10 to 100. I have tried running
lanadmin -X 100FD 0 or
lanadmin -X 100HD 0 and I get this error...
Error: This option is not supported for this hardware.
I tried installing various software patches, hoping that would fix the issue, and I am still having troubles.
I am on a J200 running 11.0. When I didn't the upgrade to 11.0, I didn't install any special drivers to get the card running....I am not sure what I am missing here.
Ioscan output is below...
Class I H/W Path Driver S/W State H/W Type Description
===============================================
lan 0 8/12/6 lan2 CLAIMED INTERFACE Built-in LAN
/dev/diag/lan0 /dev/ether0

Thanks in advance

[Patrick Wallek]

I guess the first question to ask is are you sure this machine supports 100 Mbit netowrking? I could not find a J200 specifically, though there is a C200. It is entirely possible that the built-in LAN card is 10 Mbit ONLY. That is the impression I get from teh message you are getting.

[Rajeev Shukla]

I bet you the card is 10MBps only thats the reason why you can not change the speed to 100MBps.
Most of the inbuilt LAN cards come with 10Mbps and for those reasons you cant change the speed.

[A. Clay Stephenson]

You better check your part no. A3515A refers to a very old AutoRAID disk array.

[A. Clay Stephenson]

You must be talking about J3515A. Install PHNE_25779, take 2 aspirins, and call me in the morning.

[Kathleen]

You are right....it is a J3515A
by that time last night...J, A, ya know :)

[Kathleen]

Part of what I needed to do was install the J3515A driver.....I hadn't done that. Then a second card appeared (the J3515A). Still having troubles configuring it.

How can I get it to recognize only the card that runs at 100MB vs the one that runs at 10...that is where my problem is now :(

[A. Clay Stephenson]

I would still install the patch I mentioned because it fixes several problems. Install it and reboot.

Next,
do a lanscan and note the interface name (lan0, lan1, ...) of your J3515A.

Now edit, /etc/rc.config.d/btlanconf and set:
HP_BTLAN_INTERFACE_NAME[0]=lan1 (or whatever as returned by lanscan).
HP_BTLAN_STATION_ADDRESS[0]=
HP_BTLAN_SPEED[0]=100FD

save this file.

Now edit /etc/rc.config.d/netconf. All you should have to change is:
INTERFACE_NAME[0]=lan1 (or, again, whatever lanscan reported the J3515A to be)
and save this file.

Reboot and you should be good to go. If the switchport is hard set, you need to set it to100FD as well --- and I suggest that it be hard set.

[Kathleen]

When I try to do the patch...I get the error below....for both parts....

â â NOTE: The patch fileset "PHNE_25779.NATIVELDAP-RUN,r=1.0" may only â
â â be installed upon a previously installed base fileset. The â
â â specification for this base fileset is â â
â â "LdapUxClient.NATIVELDAP-RUN,fr=B.02.00,v=HP". Since there is â â
â â no fileset on the target or selected from the source which â â
â â matches this specification, fileset â â
â â "PHNE_25779.NATIVELDAP-RUN,r=1.0" will be excluded.

Lanscan shows as

Path Address In# State NamePPA ID Type Support Mjr#
10/8/1/0 0x00108336B12D 1 UP lan1 snap1 1 ETHER Yes 119
8/12/6 0x0800098C4194 0 UP lan0 snap0 2 ETHER Yes 119


For the file to edit, /etc/rc.config.d/btlanconf....
I don't see that file in the rc.config.d directory. I have a hpbase100conf file that I edited.

If I edit the hpbase100conf file and it says
HP_BTLAN_INTERFACE_NAME[0]=
do I need to change the [0] to [1] ?
and does it matter if I have the HP_BASE100_STATION_ADDRESS entered? I did do tha

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi Kathleen,

Appears Clay typo'd that patch name - should be PHNE_25579 - here's a link to it:

http://www1.itrc.hp.com/service/patch/patchDetail.do?BC=patch.breadcrumb.search|&patchid=PHNE_25579&context=hpux:800:11:00

It an 11.0 100BT lan cumulative patch.

HTH,
Jeff

P.S. Clay - now she definitely needs the aspirin. ;~))

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi (again) Kathleen,

And although you can set the STATION_ADDRESS (MAC adress) in the conf file, it's not necessary nor advised.
What can happen is if that card is replaced or an Ignite image from this system is loaded on another system it can cause problems.

Rgds,
Jeff

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Sorry, that should be PHNE_25579 and note that it has dependent patches as well.

You do not change [0] to [1]; in fact, you can't have [1]'s without [0]'s. You can leave the station_address value blank and the actual MAC as determined by thge hardware itself will be used. Only in the case that a new MAC address is needed would you not leave this value blank.

[Geno Church_1]

Kathleen,

Here is a chart that shows the association between the btlan driver and
the /etc/rc.config.d/hp####conf file?


#ioscan -fkC lan will display the btlan driver loaded in the
kernel.

driver /etc/rc.config.d/

btlan0 hpeisabtconf

btlan hpbtlanconf

btlan1 hpbasetconf

btlan3 hpbase100conf

btlan4 hpgsc100conf

btlan5 hppci100conf

btlan6 hpsppci100conf


since you will be using the btlan4 driver, you need to configure the hpgsc100conf file.

Regards,
Geno

[Kathleen]

Ok.....I am having troubles with the patching for some reason but I have the 2nd card working. Part of the problem was I was trying to use one network connection.....but assinging the same IP address to both cards. Once I changed the IP on lan0 to something becides what I wanted this machine to actually be....its working.

I want to get those patches installed but I am still having troubles. Will still need to work on that one.

I appreciate all the help!