btlan error

[John Ferrara]

I'm having a problem w/ a LAN card using the btlan0 driver. When I try to look at the card settings using sam I get an error:

UNEXPECTED EXIT: Process LANG=C LC_ALL=C /usr/sam/lbin/samx -C -n -p 12818 -s nia /usr/sam lib//nia.ui exited with non-zero exit status.
XIO: fatal IO error 232 (Conncection reset by peer) on X server "my.ip.address:0.0"

Before this error, the LAN connection is halted and not pingable for a minute or so.

I don't think this is the correct driver for this card for starters. This is a D380 w/ 10.20. The card is an EISA INP0500.

1. Why am I getting this error?
2. If I should be using a different driver, how do I change it?

John

[Sandip Ghosh]

Look at this page. It is having details about the ethernet drivers.

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/components/FileAttachment/0,,0xbdcd94f22a31d6118fff0090279cd0f9,00.htm

Sandip

[John Poff]

Hi,

I have a D box running 10.20 and it has an EISA INP0500 LAN card in it, and it is configured with the btlan0 driver. What does 'ioscan -fnC lan' return? What does your /etc/rc.config.d/hpeisabtconf file look like? What does 'lanscan' return?

JP

[John Ferrara]

John:

ioscan doesn't show any device files:

# ioscan -fnC lan
Class I H/W Path Driver S/W State H/W Type Description
===================================================================
lan 0 8/16/6 lan2 CLAIMED INTERFACE Built-in LAN
/dev/diag/lan0 /dev/ether0 /dev/lan0
lan 1 8/20/5/1 btlan0 CLAIMED INTERFACE EISA card INP0500

/etc/rc.config.d/hpeisabtconf is blank.

# lanscan
Hardware Station Crd Hardware Net-Interface NM MAC HP DLPI Mjr
Path Address In# State NameUnit State ID Type Support Num
8/16/6 0x0060B0B65AAD 0 UP lan0 DOWN 4 ETHER Yes 52
8/20/5/1 0x0060B059DB1F 1 UP btlan01 UP 5 ETHER Yes 75

I don't think hpeisabtconf should be blank.

Any thoughts?

John

[John Poff]

Ok. Try 'insf -C lan', and then try the ioscan command again to see if you get device files for the LAN card.

JP

[John Ferrara]

I tried it, nothing.

John

[John Poff]

John,

Check this: Go into 'sam, Kernel Configuration->Drivers and see if 'btlan0' is 'in' or 'out'. If it is 'out', you'll need to configure it into the kernel and reboot.

JP

[John Ferrara]

It's in.

John

[John Poff]

John,

It sounds kind of like a sam bug. Try 'lanadmin -x 5' and see if it interrogates the card. If so, you might try bringing it up with the 'ifconfig' command. If that works, you'll be in business. Just put in the entries in your hpeisabtconf file, and start looking for some sam patches.

JP

[John Poff]

John,

Do you have patch PHCO_22268 loaded? It mentions:

When SAM writes the MAC address of a 100BT card
to the config file it can result in problems
like loss of connectivity.



Just another thing to check.

JP