Cant get Token Ring card to work, not showing up in Sam, HW seems ok

[Alan Casey]

The Card was working previously I installed the Token Ring Eisa software and lanscan shows:

Hardware Station Crd Hdw Net-Interface NM MAC HP-DLPI DLPI
Path Address In# State NamePPA ID Type Support Mjr#
16/6 0x080009C3DA2D 0 UP lan0 snap0 1 ETHER Yes 119
20/5/1 0x000000000000 1 DOWN lan1 2 802.5 Yes 119

But ioscan shows the device as claimed.
lan 1 20/5/1 token1 CLAIMED INTERFACE EISA card MDG0002
/dev/diag/lan1 /dev/lan1

The interface does not show up in sam so I can't configure it.
Any ideas as to what the problem is?

[Ross Zubritski]

Did you try ifconfig lan1 up?

Regards,

RZ

[John Dvorchak]

Is the card plugged into a functioning ring? Have you tried to enable it by:
ifconfig lan1 up

[Alan Casey]

If config doesn't work on lan1

HPDEMO(root)/> ifconfig lan1 up
ifconfig: no such interface

[John Dvorchak]

I am guessing a driver problem. Try removing the /dev file for it. First do an ioscan to get the hardware address then
rmsf -H like:

rmsf -H 0/12/0.0.0.1

This will remove the special file and the system reference to it. Then try readding it with insf:

insf -H 0/12/0.0.0.1

Of course you would use your actual hardware address. Then try to ifconfig lan1 up again.

[John Dvorchak]

I don't know how current this is but the Token ring driver software at one time was J1644AA and perhaps you could do a search on that number or token ring in general on the ITRC search page.

Good luck

[Alan Casey]

the rmsf / insf didn't solve the problem.

The software I'm trying is J2165B, I tried a couplle of others aswell.

[John Dvorchak]

It looks like the easy stuff is not going to fix your problem. I think at this point you are looking at a hardware issue. I don't suppose you have another TR card laying around that you could swap in.

[Ron Kinner]

Alan,

Just in case you forgot to check your other post over in Networking: I found this:

Per:

http://docs.hp.com/hpux/onlinedocs/J1644-90018/J1644-90018.html

"Configuration for (older) EISA Cards

The information in this section applies only to HP 9000 EISA Token Ring. The EISA bus version of Token Ring has been obsoleted as of July 1999. Configuration information for this product is included here for older systems who may still need to configure this product.

Follow the steps below to set the EISA card link speed to the ring speed.
Run the eisa_config utility in interactive mode using the command:

eisa_config

The screen display shows a slot number, configuration (CFG) file, and contents description for each EISA card.

Verify that eisa_config displays either !HWPC000 at slot 0 for the S720/730 EISA system board or !HWPC010 at slot 0 for the S750 EISA system board.

If you inserted the hardware card into the EISA interface prior to installing the Token Ring software using the swinstall utility, eisa_config may automatically recognize the card. If so, you should proceed to Step 4 below.

Add the Token Ring card configuration file (!MDG0002) to the EEPROM memory chip on the EISA interface using the add command, followed by the slot number of the first available empty slot for the card, after the EISA prompt. In the example below, 1 is the slot number chosen for the EISA Token Ring interface:

add !MDG0002 1

HP recommends that you use the lowest empty slot.

Execute the show board command followed by the slot number of the card to display the board's basic attributes. In the example below, 1 indicates the slot number of the EISA Token Ring interface.

show board 1

In the display, function names are prefaced with F1 and F2, and choice options are prefaced with CH1, CH2, and so forth.

To set the cable connector type, execute the change command followed by the slot number of the card, F1 for cable connector type, and the choice option of the type you wish to set. For example, to set the cable connector type of the card in slot 1 to a RJ45 connector, you must execute the command:

change 1 F1 CH2

Use CH1 for a DB9 connector (the default); use CH2 for a RJ45 connector.

You MUST configure the card link speed to match the ring speed. To set the card link speed, execute the change command followed by the slot number of the card, F2 for the ring speed function, and the choice option of the speed you wish to set. For example, to set the card link speed of the card in slot 1 to 16 Mbit/s, you must execute the command:

change 1 F2 CH2

Use CH2 if the ring speed is 16 Mbps; use CH3 if the ring speed is 4 Mbps.

Do not change the interrupt level (F3). The setting is CH1 (Level-sensitive).

To save the new card configuration, execute the command:

save

No switches or jumpers have to be changed.

To leave the eisa_config utility, execute the command:

quit

If you have not encountered any error before issuing the quit command, ignore all messages displayed by eisa_config upon exiting.

You can also use the eisa_config utility to reconfigure the connector type and the ring speed for your EISA Token Ring card. You must reboot the system when you are done with eisa_config for the changes to take effect."

Ron