NIC is not detected

[Arnold_14]

I have an HP box with 2 NICs, one a gigabit card, and the other one is just a regular fast ethernet card.

Under SAM, I'm only seeing the gig card, not the other one. I check the back of the box and both of them are there.

Is there a setting that I can poke around?

Thanks
Arnold

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

Hi

Have you installed the driver fot the "regular fast ethernet card"?

Paula

[Arnold_14]

Under SAM -> Kernel Config. -> Drivers, I have a driver called:

Driver Name: iether
Driver Type: Kernel Driver, Static Only
Description: PCI 10/100Base-T Adapter

Is that the driver for the fast-e card?

[Hazem Mahmoud_3]

No, what you want is either the "gelan" or "igelan" driver depending on your card. What do you get from:
"ioscan -funC lan"
?

-Hazem

[Arnold_14]

From ioscan -fnC lan, I can see that I have igelan. But I don't have btlan driver. For comparisons, other HP boxes here that have 2NICs, have both drivers, btlan and igelan.

Is this the driver that's missing? Can I get it from hp.com?

Thanks
Arnold

[Hazem Mahmoud_3]

Check out:
http://welcome.hp.com/country/us/en/support.html
We had issues with the igelan driver and certain cards and so we use the card A4929A which uses the gelan driver.

-Hazem

[Victor Fridyev]

Hi,

Which model is this ? rp34xx ? In this model the second NIC is lan console connector. Try to configure it via GSP (ctrl-B, lc option).

[rick jones]

On what box and OS rev is this?

Iether was (iirc) initially the driver for the core "intel-based" 10/100 interface in IPF systems. It has since I believe expanded to include the recently announced dual-port PCI-X Gigabit Ethernet NIC (A9900A in the Linux/Windows version, I don't recall the UX versions product number).

Anyhow, the gelan driver was for the original PCI Gigabit Ethernet interface. The igelan driver is for the current single-port Gigabit Ethernet interface.

The plain 10/100 card driver likely is btlan (on 11.11) or one of btlan[3456] on previous OS releases. For PA-RISC systems at least - I'm not sure if we put that same card on IPF systems or not.

In any case, you should do an ioscan -fk on your system - likely as not you will see the card there as being "UNCLAIMED" which tells you that the card at least is visible at the hardware level, but the proper driver is not installed.