AB545A PCI-X 4-Port Gigabit Ethernet Card Installation Guide

Hardware and Software Installation Procedure
Product Overview
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Product Overview
The AB545A PCI-X LAN cards have the following features and requirements:
• PCI-X 133 MHz capable card and is keyed so it only fits in 3.3V slots. It can operate at 32-bit or 64-bit
modes and is supported in the following frequencies:
— PCI-X 133. Best performance is achieved by putting the card into one of the highest-performing (or
“dual-rope”) PCI-X 133 slot. To identify which slots are the highest performing slots in a particular
system, please refer to the hardware users’ guide for each system.
— PCI-X 66
— PCI 66
The AB545A card is not supported in PCI 33 bus mode. See the CAUTION that follows:
CAUTION The AB545A card DOES NOT SUPPORT PCI 33 MHz operation. Therefore, do not place
this card in the shared slot of a system where the card in the neighboring shared slot is a 33
MHz only card!!! Please see Table 5 on page 14 for the list of 33 MHz only cards.
• Requires either HP-UX 11i v 2.0 (64 bit) operating environment (OE) of September 2004 (or later) or
the software bundle, IEther-00 , from the 11i v 1.0 of December 2004 (or later) OE or application
software media.
— For 11i v 2.0, your system needs to be on the September 2004 operating environment or later, so you
need to load the entire OE.
— For systems that are already running 11i v 1.0, you can either just load the required software driver
bundle, or you can load the entire December 2004 11i v 1.0 OE and /or application software and you
will automatically get the driver you need for this card.
• Supports Jumbo Frames.
• Supports HP Serviceguard and Auto-Port Aggregation (APA) for high availability.
• Supports virtual LANs (VLANs). This feature is described in Using HP-UX VLANs on http://docs.hp.com.
• Supports PCI-X online addition/replacement (OLA/R) on specified systems. A patch is required. If your
system is running HP-UX 11i v 1.0, use PHKL_31227 (or later). If your system is running HP-UX 11i v
2.0, use PHKL_31226 (or later). If the patch is not installed, the OLA operation will not succeed and the
card will not be usable until the system is rebooted.
For instructions on how to perform online addition and replacement (OLAR) for PA-RISC-based systems
running HP-UX 11i v 1.0, see Configuring HP-UX For Peripherals. For instructions on performing OL* for
Itanium-based systems and PA-RISC systems running HP-UX 11i v 2.0 of September 2004 or later, refer
to the Interface Card OL* Support Guide .
• Supports configuration through SAM or command line.
• Online/Offline Diagnostics.
• Ignite UX support.
• Supports vPars on HP-UX 11i v 1.0.
• Card resident EFI driver V 3.0.03.
• IPv4 Checksum Offload for TCP (CKO).