HP9000 not recognizing lan card

[Alejandro Rosales]

Hello people.

Last day after I shutdown my HP 9000 series 800 box, it wouldn't connect to network anymore. More specifically, the 2 interfaces were there, and configured, as reported by SAM, but just no response was coming through. I reinstalled 10.20 from CD, and now it will only recognize the built-in lan adapter (It works). ioscan reports just one adapter.

Can somebody point me to what am I missing? Or could it be that the extra lan adapter won't work anymore?

It's a HP 9000 PA-RISC server, 160 Mhz cpu, 128 MB RAM, 2 4.0 GB disks.

Many thanks in advance.

[Vince Inman]

Reinstalling seems rather extreme given that it is a lan card that it being problematic.

First, do an ioscan -f, this will show you all the dev's physically installed. If ther device is there but in an "unknown" state, at least you know the device is getting recognized by the server.

The first thing to get accomplished is for the card to show up in the ioscan. Once that is accomplished. It should only be a matter of configuration.

If ioscan is only showing 1 adapter and the other is not even getting an "unknown", then the card is probably faulty. You might want to try reseating the card once to see if it shows up again, or simply get it replaced.

[Alejandro Rosales]

Well, the OS reinstall was kinda necessary (in my opinion) because I recently inherited this server from a very old administration. Poor dude was all dusty and forgotten.

About the lan adapter, I did the ioscan and (it's a wild guess) I think it's there. I'm attaching the ioscan -f results, and I quote what I believe is the lan card that doesn't work:

unknown -1 8/20/5/8 UNCLAIMED UNKNOWN EISA card INP0500

I'd go for the resetting, rather than the replacing because I'm not sure we still have a support agreement with HP for this server.

[Christopher McCray_1 · Accepted solution]

Hello,

Most likely, you will need to install the dirvers/necessary patches to get the cards back, as is the case with virtually all lan cards.

Generally, they are located on CD #1 on the application CD bundle.


Hope this helps

Chris

[Vince Inman]

If the card is in an UNKNOWN state from an ioscan, then the drivers are not in the kernel.

Take that action first (installing) the drivers so that the ioscan recognizes the device as a LAN type device.

Once this takes place, you'll be able to configure the card to do whatever. lanscan will assist once the card is known to the system via ioscan.

[Eugeny Brychkov]

In addition to driver installation try
# eisa_config
utility
Eugeny

[rick jones]

To fully ID a system, the output of the "model" command is generally good.

Given what has been said, you likely have a D Class system.

The "INP" card is likely an EISA 100BT card, for which indeed you will have to re-install the driver as the driver for EISA 100BT is not part of the 10.20 core OS.

There is a remote chance it is an EISA FDDI card - those too came to HP via Interphase (INP) but 100BT is the more likey case. The driver for that 100BT card was (IIRC) the btlan1 driver.