new network card

[harpal]

I have just received a new 10/100 meg pci card
for our 7025 F50 which currently has a 10 meg card
just want to make sure that if I shutdown the machine and take
out the old card and populate with the new card will cfgmgr pick
up the new card automatically or will I have to boot up into maintance mode.

thanx

Harpal

 

[AIX5L]

Remove the Configurations of the old Adapter:
ifconfig en0 down
ifconfig en0 detach
ifcconfig et0 down
ifconfig et0 detach
rmdev -dl en0
rmdev -dl et0
rmdev -dl ent0
shutdown -Fr
Remove the old card and insert the new Card.
Startup the Machine in Normal Mode
lsdev -Cc adapter
is the Adapter available ? if not cfgmgr -i /dev/cd0 ( cd1 from the AIX Base cd insert )
lsdev -Cc Adapter
OK ?
diag -a
if the Adapter is in the List - Enter the data.
smitty devices
Enter the Speed of the Interface ( 100 Full ?)
smitty tcpip
Enter the Ip-Parameters

Good Luck

 

[DSMARWAY]

hi,
if you have the slots available on your machine why don't youadd this new card into the server , so you'll have 2 cards and then configure the new card with a temporary IP address which is on the same network to see if it works and then change the other one i.e. either remove it or put it a defined state incase you want to use it at a later date.

 

[aixqueen]

device drivers would be nice if you want to see the card?
or it won't find it..........which card is it?
--------------------------------------
for the 2968 Type 9-P
Filesets: devices.pci.23100020.* (See current level for AIX 4.1 4.2 4.3)
NOTE: If this fileset is NOT present on the base 4.1.5 or 4.2.1 AIX cd.
you have to gather the last AIX update CD after 4.1.5 or 4.2
-----------------
3com card #2986
Shipped diskettes
AIX 4.1 / 4.2 / 4.3 Files --> /usr/lpp/devices.pci.b7105090.rte
/usr/lpp/devices.pci.b7105090.diag
/etc/drivers/pci/v3boomdd
----------------------
Type A-F #4962 - Scurry - FFC 2530

See current level of: devices.pci.1410ff01.*
NOTE: This fileset is not included on the AIX Base CD 4.3.3 LCD4-0286-06.
Use LCD4-0286-07 released september 2001

 

[harpal]

installed new card as suggested but new card won't ping any other machines on our network the card is a 7025 2968
it is available if I do the lsdev -Cc adapter is there and availble.

any ideas

H

 

[gwichman]

can you provide output for "ifconfig -a" and "netstat -rn"?

 

[aixqueen]

Ok...so you then went into smitty devices....? after you did the ifconfig stuff
from above?

If you go into the smitty devices, communication, ethernet adapter and set
the media speed, and half or full here,
If the card is up it will say busy...so save changes to database only
and you set for 10 or 100 not auto?

And you then went into smitty tcpip, minimum configuration
And you selected your adapter and checked that there was an IP and
Hostname and gateway? and you moved the cable to the new card?

When you are done, you should check the /etc/hosts file to make sure there is
an entry for lo0 (your loopback at 127.0.0.1 and that you do not have any
duplicate entries. If you had an entry for one IP address and you changed it,
make sure the original is removed.

Make sure there are no spaces before the entry for the loopback entry. If there
are you may have problems with NFS as well. Usually you get a E18E984F
label or a 256-9020 for the rpc.mountd.

If you cannot ping yourself, it is probably that the loopback line is missing or
incorrect. Check the rc.net file. Is the entry for the loopback line commented
out?
The line should be
/usr/sbin/ifconfig/lo0 inet loopback up >> $LOGFILE 2>&1