AIX 5L for POWER version question

[swortsoul]

We're installing 10/100/1000 NIC cards on a few machines. The install guide says that AIX 5L for POWER version 5.1.35 with ML 03 or later is a pre-req. For the dual port card, the pre-req is AIX 5L for POWER version 5.1.0 ML 04 or later.

I always refered to our OS as AIX 5.1 ML06 (from oslevel -r 5100-06)

Since we are installing the single port cards, we need the 5.1.35 ML03. I guess I don't know what 5.1.35 is. Is it different than our OS? If so, does that mean our system doesn't support the single port cards?

Thanks
Tim

 

[gilsont]

[TT]

If you issue this command:

lsdev -Cc adapter

and look at your NIC cards you will see a number in brackets at the end - this is the device driver number unique to each NIC type. If you now grep this number from lslpp you will see the version of the driver installed on your system.

Let us look at ent0 on my machine:

root # lsdev -Cc adapter
fda0 Available 01-A0 Standard I/O Diskette Adapter
.
.
.
ent0 Available 04-03 IBM PCI Ethernet Adapter (22100020)
tok0 Available 04-04 IBM PCI Tokenring Adapter (14101800)

root # lslpp -l | grep 22100020
devices.pci.22100020.diag 5.1.0.0 COMMITTED PCI Ethernet Adapter
devices.pci.22100020.rte 5.1.0.0 COMMITTED IBM PCI Ethernet Adapter
devices.pci.22100020.rte 5.1.0.0 COMMITTED IBM PCI Ethernet Adapter

Now my box is patched to 5.1 ML03 according to oslevel -r. The device driver for this ethernet card is at 5.1.0.0 and so as part of AIX ML 03, this lpp is not subject to any patching.

For your NIC type, ML 03 is required - you should find that the lpp for your card will be at least 5.1.0.35. This just means that your NIC type is subject to patches that are part of ML 03/04/05 or 06.

OK ?

 

[swortsoul]

Thanks for that. That's what I assumed, but I had to be sure. Especially since I told them I specifically wanted the 5701 instead of the 5700 (based on talking with IBM support, and our application vendor).

What confused me was that the IBM install guide says:

The 10/100/1000 Base-TX Ethernet PCI-X Adapter is supported on AIX 5L for POWER version 5.1.35 with the 5100-03 Recommended Maintenance package or later.

The Dual Port 10/100/1000 Base-TX Ethernet PCI-X Adapter is support on AIX 5L for POWER version 5.1.0 with 5100-04 Recommended Maintenance package or later.

So, they made it sound like 5.1.35 was the version of the OS and that it was different than 5.1.0. They didn't specify just the fileset.

I just installed the latest software driver (5.1.0.60), so we are fine.

Thanks
Tim

 

[xcxc]

swortsoul,

Hi, i just installed two 5701 on one p650 with AIX5.1ML04, and had a problem "803-25C1" when use diag\advanced\system verify, have u ran into this problem?

 

[swortsoul]

We're doing the install today. I'll let you know if I run into anything.

Tim

 

[swortsoul]

No problems on the 5701 installation. Diags ran fine. The only thing that was odd was when we did the diag with the wrap plug, it only ran the 10 and the 100 tests. The internal test did all 3 (10/100/1000).

Tim