Change setting of lan card

[Patrick Chim]

Hi all,

I want to change the speed, duplex mode, autoneg of our server's lan card which running HP-UX 11.0. I do the process in sam but it show

"The driver specific script in /usr/sbin doesn't support the setting of Speed, Duplex and Autonegotiation parameters. Please obtain the latest configuration script or contact your support personnel for further assistance."

The parameters is dimmed and cannot be changed.

Does anyone know what is the problem ?

Best Regards,
Patrick

[Mark van Hassel]

Hi Patrick,

The LAN card probably is an internal 10BaseT card.
Check with "ioscan -fnClan"

If it is a Built-in with a lan2 driver 100Mb and full duplex is not supported. The newer models like the L and N class (PCI based) do have internal LAN cards that support 100FD. Systems like the K class don't.

[Patrick Chim]

Hi,

My server is the L2000 class and have two 4-ports pci lan card. I want to change individual setting of the port which beginning from lan1 to lan8.

Regards,
Patrick

[Mark van Hassel · Accepted solution]

Patrick,

OK, those cards support 100FD. Check whether the driver software is installed using swlist:
A5506A B.11.00.01 PCI 4 PORT 100BASE-T/9000

If so, you can use lanadmin to set it to 100FD:

lanadmin -X 100FD [ppa nr]

retrieve the ppa nr from "lanscan"

lanadmin -x [ppa nr] shows the current setting.

PLease note that the ports on the switches should be 100FD as well !

Also you need to edit /etc/rc.config.d/hpbtlanconf to enable 100FD during boot time, just like this:

HP_BTLAN_INTERFACE_NAME[0]=lan1
HP_BTLAN_SPEED[0]=100FD

Good luck !

[Patrick Chim]

Hi,

Do you know why I can't change the setting in sam ?

Best regards,
Patrick

[Patrick Chim]

Hi,

How about setting the Autoneg parameter ?

Patrick

[Mark van Hassel]

Patrick,

I don't know why it is not possible in SAM.
The possible settings are:

Valid types:10HD, 10FD, 100HD, 100FD, AUTO_ON

[Angus Crome]

Start looking at the Recommended and HW/Crit patch sets from Mar 2001 or later. They should add functionality to both the lanadmin command and SAM.