PPA Numbers on Lan Cards

[Brian Killeen_1]

How are you all,

I have a small issue with a Lan card you might be able to help me with - I previously had a PCI 4-Port Lan card in an A500 but replaced it with a single port PCI Lancard - The new card has become lan5 but I need it to be lan1 - I have tried removing the driver & then rmsf -a /dev/lan1/lan2/lan3/lan4/lan5 and the same for the /dev/diag/lan* files....I reload the driver and it comes back up as bloody lan5 again - Any ideas would be greatly appreciated....


thanks in advance

Brian Killeen

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell · Accepted solution]

Hi Brian

This might help:-



http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x0aba119c3420d411b66300108302854d,00.html

Paula

[Sanjay_6]

Hi Brian,

you have to change the instance of the lan card in the kernel.

Try this link below,

http://us-support3.external.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=0dcd8f8b19b4df85da/screen=ckiDisplayDocument?docId=500000000092511

Hope this helps.

Regds

[S.K. Chan]

I think you need to change the LAN card instance number in order to get what you want. I would just keep it at lan5. Don't see any harm in that.

[Brian Killeen_1]

It still is not working - Right track with ioinit - It claims though that lan1 is in use even though it isn't........??????

[Steven Sim Kok Leong]

Hi,

Have you tried performing the change in single-user (or maintenance) mode?

Hope this helps. Regards.

Steven Sim Kok Leong

[Sanjay_6]

Hi Brian,

Can you list the steps you have tried. Also Can you post your "ioscan -fn" output as attachement.

Hope this helps.

Regds

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Brian:

I think if you follow the following discussion (in order), ending with Carsten Krege's explanation and using his attached code (appropriately) you will be able to resolve your problem:

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x52c6cf38d6bdd5118ff10090279cd0f9,00.html

...and Carsten's explanation/solution appears here:

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x60cacf38d6bdd5118ff10090279cd0f9,00.html

Regards!

...JRF...