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J3515 A with no ethernet address

 
CHA_1
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J3515 A with no ethernet address

I've installed a J3515A HSC Lan Adapter in a D370/2 server with HP-UX 10.20 (first software, then hardware).
The hardware is shown as CLAIMED, but on the lanscan output the card has the following MAC:
0x000000000000 !!
Do I have now a problem the hard- or software??

After this I installed different patches but this
did not help and now I have problems to activate the LAN card (probably a swinstall error), so I had have to switch back to the old card.
Christian
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Robert-Jan Goossens
Honored Contributor

Re: J3515 A with no ethernet address

Hi,

Could you check if the old MAC address is in /etc/rc.config.d/hpbase100conf

Regards,
Robert-Jan
CHA_1
Occasional Advisor

Re: J3515 A with no ethernet address

very fast answer!
I'll check it out next week and post it
Christian
CHA_1
Occasional Advisor

Re: J3515 A with no ethernet address

There is no MAC entry in /etc/rc.config.d/hpbase100conf !

Is it possible that HP used such cards for exchange services (licenses on MAC ...)?
Christian
Victor Fridyev
Honored Contributor

Re: J3515 A with no ethernet address

Could you please reinstall the SW ? I mean swremove and swinstall.

HTH
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Robert-Jan Goossens
Honored Contributor

Re: J3515 A with no ethernet address

Could you check,

# grep STATION_ADDRESS /etc/rc.config.d/*

search for someting like 0x001062FF5AE3

Reagrds,
Robert-Jan
Steven E. Protter
Exalted Contributor

Re: J3515 A with no ethernet address

You may simply have a deffective card. It might not be the kind of defect that stm will be able to identify.

There is no special trick to a new install or a swap as I did on one of those cards recently.

lanscan should show the mac address of the card after the system is up and booted.

If not, it may be time to try a different NIC.

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