Problem seeing tu1 network id

[mark stewart_5]

I have an alphastation 500. I can see the tu1 network card in the monitor. But when I boot up the workstation the OS cannot see it. Does anybody have any suggestions?

[Hein van den Heuvel]

boot -fi genvmunix

doconfig -c XXXX

mv /vmunix /vmunix.orig
mv XXXX/vmunix /

or something close to that...

Hein

[Ravi_8]

Hi,

Rebuild the kernel (doconfig),if this doesn't work, update the patch kit

[Ralf Puchner]

what is monitor? Do you mean srm console or os-system command ifconfig? Please be more specific!

What means network ID? Network ID is hostname or IP/Mac address, do you mean device name? (tu)

[Michael Schulte zur Sur]

Ralf,

Mark was specific enough. It can only be the srm console since the card is not seen when os is running and he refers to a system state before booting. ;-)

do the boot with genvmunix!

Michael

[Mohamed K Ahmed]

Mark,
I had a similar problem when I updated one of my ES40 servers from 4.0G to 5.1

Probably, when booting the system you might see a message like
PCI card in slot # not recognized vendor id .......something like that.

For me it was a copper NIC card DEGPA-TA. When I regenerated the kernel, it could't see it either, I kept on trying to find the differences in the /etc/sysconfigtab files before and after upgrade.

Installing patch kit 5 for Tru64 UNIX V 5.1 and regenerating a new kernel (done by patch instal process) fixed the problem and the card was seen.

In summary, Installing the latest patch kit might solve it

HTH

Mohamed

[Ross Minkov]

As some folks already said try booting genvmunix first and rebuilding the kernel, before you go installing patches.

From SRM:
>>> b -fl 1 -fi genvmunix

# bcheckrc

# doconfig -c NODE_NAME
(or doconfig -a)

save your old kernel

# cp -p /sys/NODE_NAME/vmunix /

#reboot

If that doesn't help, try applying the latest patches and upgrade the firmware to the latest.

HTH,
Ross