NIC card problem

[Sarah Chellgren]

I inherited a 700 D Class with a EISA hwp1990 card in it. I don't know if the card ever worked or not. I have spent about a day on this and here is my situation:
-lanscan sees the interface but hardware status is down
-router LED is not on, I know the cable is fine
-lanadmin reset fails with DL_ERROR_ACK error
-lanadmin display states Operation Status(value)=down(2)
-I can ping myself but no one else
-ifconfig lan0 up does nothing with no error
-link beat LED not on
-ioscan -fun lan gives:
lan 0 8/20/5/1 vglan0 CLAIMED interface EISA card HWP1990

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Is it a device list problem?

[Berlene Herren]

Sarah, as this is a VG Anylan card, you must have it on a VG Anylan hub to run 100MB. Otherwise, it will only run 10MB. If the hardware state is down and a linkloop or reset fails, AND it is attached to the network, I would say your card is bad. A D class is an 800 server and will accept EISA and HSC 10/100BT cards. I suggest you switch out the VG Anylan with one of those, preferably the HSC as both the VG and EISA are or are going to be discontinued.

Berlene