Hp-ux10/20

[mla]

Hi,

I 've got any problems with his O.S
I 've got a HP model 715/100 pa-risc with hp-ux 10/20. I add a network card Isa 'cause i didn't find an eisa. I think that it isn't the problem because when i type lanscan, lanadmin it's OK. It display all the informations like the interface, the MTU .....
but it's administravely UP but operation Status DOWN. I think that's a part of my problem.Is it a driver uninstalled problem. So i can't install them because there isn't floppy disk and try to put a floppy disk with a SCSI interface.. these stations are too old.
I configure the LAN. I modify /etc/rc.config.d/netconf
/hpetherconf
and /etc/netconfig
/hetherconf
when i reboot it display "command is respawning too rapidly" ...
and "an error occured rc.config.d please modify" or something like that.
So i boot in ISL an i 'm blocked because i can't use the VI to edit these files and modified them.
Sorry i'm quite noob in Unix and English but i'm very confused and lost.
Thank for answering.
I need somebody... HELP!!!

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi,

First you should mount your filesystems.

# mount -a

use vi to undo the changes made to your systemfiles.

reboot your system and please give us an output from
# ioscan -fnC lan

Regards,
Robert-Jan

[Elmar P. Kolkman]

When your in single user mode and edit the files, test them by running
/sbin/init.d/net start

It could very well be that a double quote is missing, resulting in an error like this.

[Alan Turner]

A 715/100 has a built-in 10 Mbps ethernet interface on the system board, going to an AUI interface at the back (between the serial ports and the monitor connector).

Adding just any old ISA ethernet card probably won't work - I'd expect you to require a HP card designed for the workstation, e.g. a J2645AA card, and normally you'd get the drivers on CD, or even on one of the 10.20 applications CDs.

The 715/100 architecture doesn't use a SCSI floppy (715/50 and 715/75 use SCSI floppy).

If you boot to single user mode, you might find that vi doesn't recognise the screen - you could try the following to set up a usable temrinal definition:

export TERM=hp

You also may find that not all keys work - particularly, the # key - one trick is to delete a # from somewhere else in the file, immediately paste it back with the P command, then move to where you want the # and do another P.

Good luck.