Secondary Netcard not configuring

[David Rodman]

I have a 10/100 pci card that is not configuring for a connection to netgear hub. I tried just SAM with an auto
neg. That failed with error bad duplex. Tried 10/ half and again at 10/full both gave me the same bad duplex error.

I can get the card up to the point where I can ping it, but nothing beyond it.

Any suggestions?
Lanadmin says the status is admin up, operational down.

[Philip Chan_1]

I guess your second lan card has already been detected by the OS, all you need to do is to assign it Ip address, gateway address and net mask etc. If SAM can't do that then you could try manual config by editing /etc/rc.config.d/netconf. Take a look and it shouldn't be too difficult to add a second lan interface there.

Rgds,
Philip

[David Rodman]

Already configured in the rc.config/netconf file. And if I rebooted I'm sure I could get back to the same state.

[James A. Donovan]

Have you tried plugging a different device into your Netgear hub? The problem may be with it, rather than your NIC.

[David Rodman]

Yep, does not work in a known good netgear port. Changed cables too... no bingo yet.

[Duncan Edmonstone · Accepted solution]

Most problems like this are due to auto negotiation not working. You need to determine what speeds the hub will support and then get your network guys to turn off auto-neg at their end and hard code the best speed they can on the port. Then hard code your end by setting the speed in /etc/rc.config.d/hpbase100conf and/or using lanadmin.

Incidentally I'd be interested to know the opinions of some of HP's LAN guys on why ethernet speed auto negotiation is *so* unreliable, as these questions seem to occur almost daily on the forum.

[David Rodman]

OK, I stand, sit or other position *corrected*. It took a _full_ reboot for the hppci100conf changes to take effect. You are right about the auto neg code being BAD. But even a fixed 10 half dup (which works now) didn't work from SAM.
Thanks.