lan card problem

[Kenn Chen]

my lan1 shown status = disabled and how could i enable this lancard ? when i issue ioscan command to retrieve the hardware connection among the devices, system detected (CLAIMED) only one lancard (lan1) and why it does not detect lan0.

[Bill Hassell]

There are many LAN drivers. You'll have to add the correct driver to the kernel and reboot. Then the card will be detected by ioscan and be assigned a device file. The LAN drivers are located on your Core/Install CD or your Application CD, depending on how old your system and CDs might be.

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Hi:

You are missing the drivers for your particular lan card. In most cases the software is located on Disk 1 of any Applications CD set. After you install the drivers using swinstall the system will reboot and you should then see your lan card via lanscan.

Regards, Clay

[Roger Baptiste]

hi,

check the type of this lan card:
ioscan -nkfClan
-> see whether it is a 100BT - pci or HP-pb etc.

Then, check whether you have the driver for the card, by doing swlist -l product |grep 100

If not present, install it using the application CD (it will need a reboot of the system). That should take care of it.

HTH
raj

[Kenn Chen]

I have detected my lancard successfully but i could not configure network card correctly. Cannot ping other network servers. How to configure the card. Please help.

[T G Manikandan · Accepted solution]

Hello,
Just go into the /etc/rc.config.d/netconf file.

INTERFACE_NAME[0]="lan0"
IP_ADDRESS[0]="172.16.1.229"
SUBNET_MASK[0]=255.255.0.0
BROADCAST_ADDRESS[0]=""
INTERFACE_STATE[0]=""
DHCP_ENABLE[0]=0
Look into the parameter above,
0(zero)is the first interface.If you have already configured the first interface just copy the lines and change '0' to '1' like

INTERFACE_NAME[1]="lan1"
IP_ADDRESS[1]="ipaddress"
SUBNET_MASK[1]=subnet mask
BROADCAST_ADDRESS[1]=""
INTERFACE_STATE[1]=""
DHCP_ENABLE[1]=0
Just change the values accordingly to your network.
Caution;If you have two cards on the machine with the first one running properly
Just copy the above lines and paste it seperately and change the parameters.
Then do a
/sbin/init.d/net stop
/sbin/init.d/net start.

If you are configuring the network for the first time then you can use
set_parms initial to configure your network instead using the above file.