NIC on E45 not working (HP-UX 11.0)

[Mark Englund]

Hi All,

I'm hoping someone out there can help out. I've got an old E45 server. I've just done a re-installation on the server, and I cannot get the NIC to work. I tried:

# linkloop -n 10 -v 0x00308E2C0098

The above command failed, so I'm guessing that the problem is either an incorrect driver, or I need some patches. Does anyone know what else I could try/test to get my NIC working? Can anyone tell me when to look for the correct drivers/patches for HP-UX 11.0 on E45?

TIA

[Todd Whitcher]

Hi Mark,

Need some more data.

output from:

ioscan -fkC lan
lanscan
netstat -in
lanadmin -g
error returned from your linkloop command.

Todd

[Ron Kinner]

Not sure what an E45 is but

http://www1.itrc.hp.com/service/patch/mainPage.do?admit=-682735245+1062692140512+28353475

is the site for HPUX patches.

Note that linkloop assumes you want the first PPA which is usually the builtin NIC. If you have multiple NICs you have to tell it which to use.

11.0 is funny about subnets and enforces an obsolete RFC which bites a lot of people. You might try to go into ndd and turn off subnet checking.

ndd -set /dev/ip ip_check_subnet_addr 0

edit /etc/rc.config.d/nddconf to make it hold during a reboot.

TRANSPORT_NAME[0]=ip
NDD_NAME[0]=ip_check_subnet_addr
NDD_VALUE[0]=0



Ron

[Patrick Wallek]

If you are using the built-in lan on the E45, I think you will need the lan2 driver. Make sure it is in the kernel.

Do an:

# ioscan -fnC lan

and send us the output. Is the machine even seeing the LAN interface? If it is an add-on NIC, we need to know what kind it is.

[Steven E. Protter]

An E45 is a really, really old server. We got rid of an E55 in 2000 that ran 10.20

I think the E class were certified for 11.00 but you might want to verify that.

If you have the 11.00 application cd's there should be NIC drivers on the first CD. They should have however installed when you did the OS install.

Is it possible the card has failed? Is the cable good? Check the lights on the card and the switch and make sure the connection is good.

That ioscan output will be very useful as already noted by others.

SEP

[Volker Borowski]

Hi,

not sure, but didn't the network interface had two outlets ? RJ45 and AUI ? May be your interface is jumpered to AUI outlet ?
(Not sure if I mix up my own oldtimers G30 and E45). If you see an AUI outlet (D-SUB 15) close to the RJ45, power down the machine, pull out the main board.
It's pretty good documented on the board, which jumper you have to move.

On my machine, installation out of the box did work with onboard LAN from scratch, no patches required.

Hope this helps
Volker