FDDI CARD

[Nobody's Hero]

I have an N4000. I installed a FDDI card (PCI) of course and I think I have a problem. I am using the fddi4 driver. Here is my output. lanscan does not show the card.

[ltchp14:/]# lanscan
Hardware Station Crd Hdw Net-Interface NM MAC HP-DLPI DLPI
Path Address In# State NamePPA ID Type Support Mjr#
0/0/0/0 0x00306E069557 0 UP lan0 snap0 1 ETHER Yes 119


However ioscan looks OK, the driver and device are 'claimed'. Not sure whats up.


[ltchp14:/]# ioscan -fnC lan
Class I H/W Path Driver S/W State H/W Type Description
===================================================================
lan 0 0/0/0/0 btlan3 CLAIMED INTERFACE HP PCI 10/100Base-TX Core
/dev/ether0
lan 1 0/8/0/0 btlan UNCLAIMED UNKNOWN PCI Ethernet (10110019)
lan 2 0/12/0/0 fddi4 CLAIMED INTERFACE PCI FDDI (1011000f)


Any help appreciated....

[Nobody's Hero]

Do I need to configure the card for it to show up under lanscan?

[Jeff Schussele]

What does
ifconfig lan2
return?

Jeff

[Nobody's Hero]

Also, I just found this message:

#dmesg | grep -i fddi
0/12/0/0 fddi4
fddi4: Not an HP supported PCI FDDI Card.

[Nobody's Hero]

[ltchp14:/]# ifconfig lan2
ifconfig: no such interface

[Nobody's Hero]

This is the same FDDI card we use in all our N's running 11.0. In fact, it came out of one of our existing Nclass systems running 11.0 and it was working fine using fddi4 driver.

[Michael Steele_2]

What is the product number for the FDDI card?

Got another problem here with :

lan 1 0/8/0/0 btlan UNCLAIMED UNKNOWN PCI Ethernet (10110019)


What's this product number?

[Nobody's Hero]

FDDI card product number = PCI FDDI Adapter HP A3739A

But it does not show it as this on the troubled system.

still checking the other lan card prod number.

Could I need a patch or something. I noticed my other systems have the following fileset loaded and the troubled system does not.

# PHNE_18524 1.0 PCI FDDI B.11.00[.0[1-3,5,8]] cumul. patch
PHNE_18524.FDAD-ENG-A-MAN 1.0 PCI FDDI manpage fileset
PHNE_18524.FDDI4-KRN 1.0 PCI FDDI Kernel Software Distribution
PHNE_18524.FDDI4-RUN 1.0 PCI FDDI Runtime Software Distribution
# PHNE_19542 1.0 PCI FDDI B.11.00[.0[1-3,5,8]] cumul. patch
PHNE_19542.FDAD-ENG-A-MAN 1.0 PCI FDDI manpage fileset
PHNE_19542.FDDI4-KRN 1.0 PCI FDDI Kernel Software Distribution
PHNE_19542.FDDI4-RUN 1.0 PCI FDDI Runtime Software Distribution
# PHNE_20874 1.0 PCI FDDI B.11.00[.0[1-3,5,8],.1[1-3]] patch
PHNE_20874.FDAD-ENG-A-MAN 1.0 PCI FDDI manpage fileset
PHNE_20874.FDDI4-KRN 1.0 PCI FDDI Kernel Software Distribution
PHNE_20874.FDDI4-RUN 1.0 PCI FDDI Runtime Software Distribution
# PHNE_26550 1.0 PCI FDDI B.11.00-B.11.00.16 cumulative patch
PHNE_26550.FDAD-ENG-A-MAN 1.0 PCI FDDI manpage fileset
PHNE_26550.FDDI4-KRN 1.0 PCI FDDI Kernel Software Distribution
PHNE_26550.FDDI4-RUN 1.0 PCI FDDI Runtime Software Distribution

[Michael Steele_2]

For an N4000 (* rp7400 *) this is not a supported device. This device will only work in a rp54## (* L#000 *) or rp24## (* A#00 *).

Refer to this URL for the correct part:

http://www.docs.hp.com/hpux/onlinedocs/3687/rp7400_customer_hardwaremanual.pdf

[Nobody's Hero]

Then how can I have this same card working in another N4000? Is this N4000 a different chassis or something? Are there different N4000 class servers?

[Nobody's Hero]

Could this be the problem?

N4000 working with FDDI card:

[ihshp8:/]# model
9000/800/N4000-36



N4000 not working with FDDI card:

[ltchp14:/]# model
9000/800/N4000-55

One is a 36 and the other is a 55. Is this what you mean?

[Michael Steele_2]

By all means, use the PCI/FDDI trouble shouter:

http://www.docs.hp.com/hpux/onlinedocs/J3626-90033/J3626-90033.html

What version of HP-UX? For 11.11:

FDDI-00 B.11.11.01 PCI FDDI;Supptd HW=A3739A/A3739B;SW=J3626AA

I can't find anything for FDDI N-Class:

http://docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/fsearch/framedisplay?top=/hpux/onlinedocs/5187-1843/5187-1843_top.html&con=/hpux/onlinedocs/5187-1843/00/00/26-con.html&toc=/hpux/onlinedocs/5187-1843/00/00/26-toc.html&searchterms=A3723A&queryid=20031021-112806

[Hemanth Gurunath Basrur · Accepted solution]

Hello Robert,

The foll. doc claims that the FDDI version A card, HP Part Number A3739A, has been obsoleted and replaced with version B, HP Part Number A3739B.

Refer to the following doc for more info.

http://docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/fsearch/framedisplay?top=/hpux/onlinedocs/J3701-90007/J3701-90007_top.html&con=/hpux/onlinedocs/J3701-90007/00/00/14-con.html&toc=/hpux/onlinedocs/J3701-90007/00/00/14-toc.html&searchterms=A3739A&queryid=20031021-120010

Also, go through these links.

http://docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/fsearch/framedisplay?top=/hpux/onlinedocs/J3626-90033/J3626-90033_top.html&con=/hpux/onlinedocs/J3626-90033/00/00/29-con.html&toc=/hpux/onlinedocs/J3626-90033/00/00/29-toc.html&searchterms=A3739A&queryid=20031021-120010

http://docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/fsearch/framedisplay?top=/hpux/onlinedocs/A5191-96018/A5191-96018_top.html&con=/hpux/onlinedocs/A5191-96018/00/00/16-con.html&toc=/hpux/onlinedocs/A5191-96018/00/00/16-toc.html&searchterms=A3739A&queryid=20031021-120010

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Hemanth