Problem bringing up built-in Lan0 card.

[Tony Walker]

I have an A180c running HP-UX 11 which recently had its built-in lan card replaced to fix what was thought to be a h/w prob. At present it is not possible to connect to the server via any means other than a console. I've attached the error message received when running ifconfig lan0 up. Any ideas would be much appreciated.

Tony

[harry d brown jr]

What does ifconfig lan0, netstat -rnv, and ioscan -fnC lan show?

And you are sure the network cable is in the lan port and not in the lan console port?

live free or die
harry

[Roger Baptiste]

hi,

Make sure the lan card is being recognised
#ioscan -nfClan
-> this should show the lan card details and status . If says NO_HW in the output, then the card is still having a problem.

#lanscan
->probes the lanports and displays the ouput. It shows the lanport number i.e the NMID which defines whether it is lan0, lan1...
Make sure it is infact lan0!

Before you do ifconfig lan up, check what the current IPaddress, subnet mask settings are for that lan. Look into /etc/rc.config.d/netconf file and see what the values are for this lan.
Then, do /sbin/init.d/net stop
/sbin/init.d/net start

If you have any further problems, pls post
the output of the above three commands (ioscan -nfClan , lanscan )

HTH
raj

[Sanjay_6]

Hi Tony,

Take a look at the thread below,

http://itrc.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=2a62053402fab0c54d/screen=ckiDisplayDocument?docId=200000025411868

And then take a look at this link,

http://itrc.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=9b29c65006ba3c26e6/screen=ckiDisplayDocument?docId=200000046860286

http://itrc.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=9b29c65006ba3c26e6/screen=ckiDisplayDocument?docId=200000024602833

Hope this helps.

Regds

[Uday_S_Ankolekar]

Hi,
lanscan -fnC lan should show you status of the card
ifconfig for card setup
Run with lanscan for diagnostics.
If you put the output of above command would help us

-Goodluck,
-USA..

[MARTINACHE]

Hi,

Use linkloop from an other HPUX box in order to test the hardware connexion.

regards

Patrice

[Tony Walker]

Right, i'll try and satisfy everyones questions...

An ioscan shows that the card is UP and clamied and is LAN0. Ifconfig/lanscan also confirms this. I have tried net start/stop but still nothing. A reset in lanadmin comes back OK but problem persists. Interestingly the webconsole cannot be accessed either. I have tried power cycling the machine and resetting the consol to the default IP and cannot connect to that either (even tried a laptop and crossover cable!). Our HP engineer rekons that whole base unit needs swapping out of the webconsole is not functioning and it may sort the whole prob. thanks for your help and quick responses. I'll update when I get more info