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?
/dev/diag/ether0 /dev/ether0
/dev/diag/lan0 /dev/lan0

[Patrick Wallek]

I found this document on the ITRC Technical Knowledge Base. I don't know if it will help you or not.

http://us-support2.external.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=c72964921043b25074/screen=ckiSearchResults

[Berlene Herren]

there is also a new patch out for VG Anylan on 11.0

s700_800/11.X/PHNE_22814 :100VG-AnyLAN:EISA:B.11.00.00:

Berlene

[Craig Gilmore]

You did not state what the card was plugged into. I'm guessing a hub or a router. You did state that the router light was not lit (I'm guessing that this means no link.)

The 100VG lan card should not be confused with a 100BT lan card. It should function normally as a 10mb ethernet card. Or at 100mb if connected to a 100VG hub/switch. If you try to connect a 100VG card to a 100BT hub/switch you will not get a link. 100BT is ieee standard 802.3u while 100VG is not this standard. I think it is 802.12?

If you are sure the cable is good, and that the port on the hub is set for 10mb, and that you are plugged into the 10mb port. You should be able to talk. If you are plugged into the 100mb port and the switch is a 100VG switch/hub/router, and the cable is good you should also be able to talk. It is rare that a LANIC fails but not unheard of.