Missing 'btlan3' on 10.20

[Ron Levy]

I am attempting to migrate from an old D-class running 10.20 to an old A-180c. My attempted method is to take an Ignite make_tape_recovery tape of vg00 and use it to recreate vg00 on the A-180c. This worked wonderfully in that after slightly reconfiguring the drives, I got a working kernel, it booted up, and all the files were where I wanted them to be.

The problem is that the kernel thus generated doesn't recognize the internal 10/100 Ethernet port on the A-180c. It shows up on ioscan, but is UNCLAIMED. Using SAM I look in the Kernel Configurations, then Drivers, and I see there is a 'btlan0' driver but not a 'btlan3' driver which my research indicates to me I need to recognize this Ethernet port on the A-180c.

Where can I get this driver and install it in? I haven't been able to determine which package on the Applications CD 1 for 10.20 or the Core OS disk for 10.20 has it. Is my core OS disk too old? Is it in a patch somewhere?

Thanks,
-Ron

[Michael Tully]

Not having 10.20 set of disks does not help me help you. However, the driver for the kernel cannot be loaded unless the correct subsystem is loaded. This you should be able to find under networks on your CORE OS CD.

[Bill Hassell · Accepted solution]

In this case, the hardware is VERY VERY different (A-class versus D-class) and drivers needed for the relatively new A-class simply don't exist on the obsolete 10.20 system you have. You core CDROM must be dated 2001 in order to support the A-class. If you tried to cold-install with an earlier version, the install process will probably abort indicating incompatible hardware. I'm sure you know this but 10.20 has been obsolete since Dec2001 and completely unsupported since June last year. You'll have to find someone with the last release of the Core media as well as the last Application CDROMs to be compatible with the A-180c.

[Ron Levy]

My Core OS cd that I was trying to get drivers from is April 1999. It must be not late enough. At least I have the Dec 2001 final Applications CDs.

Thanks much!

[John Carr_2]

Ron

is there any reason why you cannot build your new system with hpux 11i and migrate your applications then you will have the latest and greatest supported o/s.

:-) John.

[Bill Hassell]

Yes, 1999 is long before there was an A-class box so there is nothing on the core CD to support the future hardware.

[Ron Levy]

Thanks to your directed hints about Enabling my Hardware, I was able to scour my Dec 2001 SupportPlus CD and its Hardware Enablement patch bundles. The btlan3 driver for internal PCI 10/100 cards is in patch PHNE_23195.

Now my hardware is claimed and enabled.