PCI Token Ring Quick Configuration Guide

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PCI Token Ring Adapter Quick Conﬁguration Guide

These instructions apply to PCI Token Ring Adapters on HP 9000 workstations and servers with a PCI bus on

HP-UX 11.0 or later.

Product description

The PCI Token Ring Adapter is a 32-bit, bus master, token ring adapter that

supports the IEEE 802.5 Token-Ring Standards deﬁnition. The adapter

supports networking on all HP 9000 workstations and servers utilizing the

PCI bus speciﬁcations on HP-UX 11.0 or later.

A4930A and A5783A run at 16 or 4 Mbps over STP cabling (via an RJ-45

or 9-pin D-shell connector) and UTP (via an RJ-45 connector) without the

need for user selection. If connected to a 100 Mb/s switch port and

autosense is enabled, A5783A will operate at 100 Mb/s.

No more than one data cable may be connected to the PCI Token Ring

Adapter at a time. For STP cable media, properly shielded and grounded

cables and connectors must be used in order to meet FCC emission limits.

The adapter also operates in full-duplex mode when connected to a

full-duplex capable switch (Dedicated Token Ring - DTR).

The PCI Token Ring Adapter operates at a bus speed of 33 MHz, is based

on the 3X5 inch Form Factor, requires no switches to be set for installation,

and is PCI 2.0 and 2.1 compliant.

Step 1: Attach the system to the network

❏ PCI Token Ring is customer-installable on all PCI systems except

V-Class and Superdome. Refer to the hardware installation section in

the Installing and Administering Token Ring/9000 manual for

installation instructions. If the software has not been loaded on your

disk, complete the following step after installing all relevant patches,

otherwise, skip to the next check box. Refer to the Release Notes for

patch dependencies.

• Install the appropriate PCI Token Ring software driver (product

number A4930A or A5783A) using swinstall(1M).

Note: For 11i, software bundle tags have changed to

TokenRing-00.

❏ Attach the adapter to the Token Ring network using the correct cabling.

The PCI Token Ring interface supports unshielded twisted-pair (UTP)

and shielded twisted-pair (STP) cabling with an RJ-45 or 9-pin D-shell

connector.

❏ Verify the Status LEDs for initialization using the “Status LEDs” table

on page 4. Note that only those items with an “X” in the “*” column

are possible prior to conﬁguration.

Step 2: Veriﬁcation and Software Conﬁguration

❏ As the system starts, look for a message on the console (or use dmesg)

similar to the following one:

pcitr7: INITIALIZING HP PCI Token Ring adapter at 4/1/0

❏ Verify that the PCI Token Ring driver was loaded in the kernel by

entering the following command at the HP-UX prompt:

# what /stand/vmunix | grep Token

...then look for the following string:

A5783A/A4930A/J1644AA HP PCI Token Ring <version> <(release)> <date>

for example:

A5783A/A4930A/J1644AA HP PCI Token Ring B.11.11.02 (DART 52) Dec 20 2000

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❏ On V-Class systems, you can verify that the card has been recognized

by the low-level system ﬁrmware by doing the following:

• At the console Menu Mode “command” prompt, type “fm”

(ForthMode) to switch to the Open Boot Interface.

• At the Open Boot “ok” prompt, type “show-devs”. Look for the

device ID (pcitr) of the Token Ring card just installed.

❏ Verify that the system recognizes the Token Ring Adapter locally by

doing the following:

❏ Run “ioscan” using the following command:

# ioscan -k -f -C lan | grep pcitr

• Look for a message similar to the following and verify that the

device is claimed:

lan 2 0/0/0 pcitr CLAIMED INTERFACE HP A4930A 4/16

PCI Token Ring Adapter or

lan 2 0/0/0 pcitr CLAIMED INTERFACE HP A5783A 4/16/100

PCI Token Ring Adapter

❏ Run “lanscan” and look under the “MAC Type” column for entries

of “802.5”.

• For each 802.5 entry, there will be an associated “lan*” entry (e.g.,

lan8) under the column titled “Net-Interface NamePPA”. These are

your Token Ring Adapter(s).

• For each “lan*” entry, you can run “ls -l /dev/lan*” to

verify that the device ﬁle was created (for example, /dev/lan8).

• Run “dmesg” to verify that the adapter was found by the system.

Look for a message similar to the following:

pcitr7: INITIALIZING HP PCI Token Ring adapter at 4/1/0

❏ Do either of the following steps, but not both:

• Conﬁgure the Token Ring Adapter with SAM. 100 Mb/s operation

is enabled by selecting autosense.

• Manually edit /etc/rc.config.d/pcitrconf to conﬁgure

the startup parameters for the interfaces to be conﬁgured. After

editing pcitrconf, edit netconf to conﬁgure IP over the link,

then reboot. Note that 100 Mb/s operation is enabled using

autosense as described in the comments in the conﬁg ﬁle.

Refer to the Installing and Administering Token Ring/9000 manual for

instructions on conﬁguration using either method.

❏ Verify remote connectivity.

• Run “linkloop” on your system to check for link level loopback

connectivity. Example:

linkloop -v -i <PPA> <station address>

NOTE: The station address must be another HP node. Linkloop to a

switch’s MAC address will not work.

Verify IP connectivity to a remote system using the following

command:

ping <remote_hostname>

ping <remote_IP_address>

Summary of content (4 pages)

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PCI Token Ring Adapter Quick Configuration Guide These instructions apply to PCI Token Ring Adapters on HP 9000 workstations and servers with a PCI bus on HP-UX 11.0 or later. Product description The PCI Token Ring Adapter is a 32-bit, bus master, token ring adapter that supports the IEEE 802.5 Token-Ring Standards definition. The adapter supports networking on all HP 9000 workstations and servers utilizing the PCI bus specifications on HP-UX 11.0 or later.
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These instructions apply to PCI Token Ring Adapters on HP9000 workstations with a PCI bus on HP-UX 10.20. Product description The PCI Token Ring Adapter is a 32-bit, bus master, token ring adapter that supports the IEEE 802.5 Token-Ring Standards definition. The adapter supports networking on all HP 9000 workstations utilizing the PCI bus specifications on HP-UX 10.20.
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PCI Token Ring Adapter Quick Troubleshooting Guide Follow the steps below in sequence to quickly isolate PCI Token Ring problems on your HP-UX 10.20 or HP-UX 11.0 or later system. If the display output indicates a problem, refer to the Release Notes. Check the HP-UX 10.20 or 11.0 or later Directory Path Prior to completing the steps below, check that the /usr/bin, /usr/sbin, and sbin directories are in your PATH using the echo $PATH command.
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netstat -r command. Successful? If the routing tables are not correct, refer to the route man page. Refer to the on-line manual pages for more detailed information about the commands listed in the above steps. If you are still having problems connecting your system to the network, contact your HP support representative. Reference Information Status LEDs * X X X Amber Error Green Link Explanation Blinking Blinking The adapter is waiting for initialization.