config file for btlan3 PCI ethernet

[Ian Killer_1]

Hi experts... I've seen hpbase100conf for the built in card. I'm dont' thing mine is the built in but an add on. Here my ioscan please confirm which of the three config files below I need to edit.

hpbase100conf
hpetherconf
hpsppci100conf

ioscan -funC lan
Class I H/W Path Driver S/W State H/W Type Description
===================================================================
lan 0 0/0/0/0 btlan3 CLAIMED INTERFACE PCI Ethernet (10110019)
/dev/ether0

[Steven E. Protter]

/etc/rc.config.d/hpbtlanconf

That is the file you want to edit to hard code network settings for the card.

SEP

[Bill Hassell]

Here are the two PCI LAN drivers:

btlan3 hpbase100conf Internal (core) LAN card
btlan5 hppci100conf "external" PCI card A5230A

[Ian Killer_1]

There is no file by that name on my server.

Bugger it.. I'll try sam(antha).

[Jeff Schussele · Accepted solution]

Hi Ian,

I'd be very surprised if you didn't have the /etc/rc.config.d/hpbase100conf file on your system. That's the one you need to edit.

Rgds,
Jeff

[Ian Killer_1]

Oops. No hpbtlanconf file on box. Too quick with all your replies.

Just verified and tested. Tis hpbase100conf.

Thanks an points shortly.

Cheers..

ian

[Steven E. Protter]

Ian, what kind of server?

I assumed because my rp5450 servers have the file under 11.11 that all servers do. Not so. Alos, version of the OS please.

SEP

[Ian Killer_1]

SEP... It's a K'n old d370.

Cheers.

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi (again) Ian,

OK - let's back up a minute here. This *can't* be a K370 or D-class system as neither of these systems have PCI busses - just PB or HSC.
This has to be at least an L-class system.
Run the model command on this system to verify the type.

Rgds,
Jeff

[Steven E. Protter]

I was wondering how you got a pci card into a box that doesn't have a PCI bus?

My PCI lan cards are controlled by the file I mentioned earlier. I am confused now. Your system may be really confused now. Does the card work?

dmesg output?

SEP

[Murgesh_2]

There is no PCI slot on this Hardware

Enjoy
Murgesh

[rick jones]

If the system is running HP-UX < 11i then btlan3 would indeed be the driver for a build-in 10/100 interface.

While it is the case there are no PCI slots in a K Class system, the HSC 10/100 BT interface is implemented with an HSC to PCI bus bridge/adaptor (aka Dino) and a PCI 10/100BT chipset (Digital 2114X). The driver for that NIC (again pre 11i) is btlan4.

One would not refer to such an interface in a K Series as the "built-in" because it is an add-on card. The "built-in" interface on a K class is the old "LASI" 10 Mbit/s Ethernet interface driven by the "lan2" driver (while they look very much the same, the names of interfaces and their driver names are not the same space)

The add-on RJ45 PCI 10/100 NIC is driven by (pre 11i) the btlan5 driver, and the add-on 10/100 combo card (again pre 11i :) is driven by btlan6.

In 11i all those drivers are merged into one "btlan" driver. I would expect ioscan to report btlan on 11i, but who knows...

As for the config file - if you are looking to hard-code duplex settings, do make sure that autoneg is indeed not functioning correctly when both the host and the switch are set to autoneg, before you start hardcoding things.

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi Rick,

Well...thats sure something I did not know when I came in this morning. Thanks for the education & that certainly is not a complex situation there at all =8~))

So, you're saying that the bridge adapter & the chipset are what cause ioscan to report that device as a PCI device?

Thx,
Jeff

[rick jones]

yes the bridge/adaptor between HSC and PCI is why one will see PCI on a K Class.

however, ioscan would report btlan4 for the HSC 100BT NIC, not btlan3, and I am fairly confident that the HW path of an HSC 100BT NIC in a K Class wold not be 0/0/0/0 (although it has been YEARS since I've done anything on a K) so I suspect the original poster is not really running a K Class

[Ian Killer_1]

Hey Thanks guys for all your information. It is indeed a d370. I didn't build so no idea how it ended up the way it has. It works though, so I can't complain. A lot of our systems here have been hacked together by other vendors. Not an IT policy I adhere to but hey.. I just work here.

Thanks again.. and once again it was an enjoyable and educational experience visiting the forums. Bye for now.