enabling ethernet card through command line

[Asya]

Hi,

After installing drivers for the gigabit card, and not yet enabling it, i went into sam and disabled the original card, which obviously killed by SAM GUI (going through xserver through the console).
Now when i go to SAM, it hangs, but eventually gets somewhere. I was wondering if there is any way i could enable the card through the command prompt through ifconfig? If it's even possible to avoid SAM..?

Thanks!
Asya

[Ashwani Kashyap]

#ifconfig interface up

will enable the card

eg.
#ifconfig lan0 up

[Asya]

Thanks for your prompt response.
But how do i know which interface it is?
lan0 was its original interface..so it will probably just re-enable it?

Thanks,
Asya

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi Asya,

Sure use the following:

ifconfig lanX 111.222.111.222 up

use the appropriate lan instance # & IP of course. And if needed you can set a subnet mask using

netmask 255.255.248.0

or whatever mask is required. Put it after the IP & before the up.

HTH,
Jeff

[Asya]

Jeff,

but how do i know which lanx to use?
i mean..how will it know which card to enable..? Sorry if i'm not making any sense.

Thank you,
Asya

[Ashwani Kashyap]

do a
#lanscan

and if you knoe the H/W path or the slot you installed the card in , use the lan number against it .

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi,

You'll have to use ioscan as follows

ioscan -kfnC lan

And match the card's HW path to the instance.
Or use lanscan as pointed out.
If you don't know the HW path, tell us what model of system you have & what slot number it's in.

Rgds,
Jeff

[Tom Maloy]

You can always use sam's TUI.

DISPLAY=

sam

Should bring up the TUI, lan cards will be presented in the same order as the GUI, might be easier to remember which one it was.

[Kyri Pilavakis]

I am sure a combination of ioscan, lanscan commands already given and the /etc/ifconfig lan0 or lan1 etc should get u what u need..

[Dan Martin_1]

Asya,

Find the card number using lanscan, but then you may need to plumb the interface before configuring it.

ifconfig lan? plumb
ifconfig lan?

netmask broadcast

Then set it up permanently:

cd /etc/rc.config.d
edit either hpgelanconf or hpigelanconf
edit netconf

Both of these files keep the information in a shell array and are self-explanatory. The *gelanconf files allow the card to be plumbed, and the netconf holds tcp/ip address information.

[Victor Fridyev]

Hi,

It seems to me, you can find which of lans was disabled in /etc/rc.config.d/netconf file. Description of the disabled card is commented out.

HTH