LAN card configuration not sticking

[Kevin O'Donovan]

I'm having a problem with a LAN card, in that its not getting configured. In SAM when I configure it it seems to take the settings I give it (I'm pretty sure the settings I give it are correct), but when it lists the network cards again they're all unconfigured.

Its lan0, lanscan picks it up, ioscan -fnC lan picks it up, but yet ifconfig lan0 tells me no such interface.

/dev/lan0 exists, /dev/ether0 exists, after running insf -e these are still the same but I don't get anywhere.

This was all working fine until Tuesday evening, I found that some device files for vg00 were 'lost' or deleted and eventually got the system up and running. I suspect that there's more device files missing, which I'm looking into but I'm not too hopeful of this being whats wrong. There wasnt any software installed on the machine Tuesday, and the machine had been running fine for 3 weeks or more without a reboot.

I've also rebuilt the kernel in case vmunix got messed up somewhere.

Anyone got any ideas what might be going on?

thanks in advance, Kevin.

[S.K. Chan · Accepted solution]

Maybe the soft link fr /dev/lan to /dev/dlpi is missing.

# ll /dev/lan*
--> if lan does not exist do this
# ln -s /dev/dlpi /dev/lan

Reboot the system

[Kevin O'Donovan]

Thanks for the response! Found a few device files/links missing, netlog, nettrace, snap, dlpi. Copied them from another (identical) machine, rebooted and it worked! woohoo!!!