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

Hardware and Software Installation Procedure

Step 1: Access the system card bay

Hardware and Software Installation Procedure

These instructions apply to AB545A PCI-X 4-Port Gigabit Ethernet cards.

If your LAN card was factory installed (ordered on product option 0D1), the software bundle required for this

card -- IEther-00 is already loaded onto your system’s hard drive.

Adding in the card: HP-UX 11i v 1.0

If your system is HP-UX 11i v 1.0 based, you can get the software bundle from the December 2004 (or later)

version of HP-UX 11i v 1.0 on the OE and/or Application Software media. You do not necessarily have to load

the entire operating environment (OE) if you don’t want to. To add the product for 11i v 1.0:

• You can either load the entire HP-UX 11i v 1.0 December 2004 OE from the distribution media and you

will automatically get the correct LAN software bundle.

• You can just select and load the software bundle IEther-00 required for this card.

Adding in the card: HP-UX 11i v 2.0 of September 2004 (or later)

• In order to use the AB545A 4-port cards with HP-UX 11i v 2.0 of September 2004 (or later), your system

needs to be on that OE.

• So, if your system does not have 11i v 2.0 of September 2004, you need to load the entire HP-UX 11i v 2.0

September 2004 (or later) OE from the distribution media, and you will automatically get the correct LAN

driver bundle.

These AB545A cards can be added to speciﬁed systems or replaced without the need to shut down or reboot

the system--a process called online addition and replacement (OLAR). If performing OLAR, patches are

required -- see “Product Overview” on page 11. The following instructions assume you are not performing

online addition and replacement.

Step 1: Access the system card bay

• If the system is running, ﬁrst, issue the sync command. Then shut down the system by executing:

shutdown -h. Respond “y” to the continue to shutdown prompt.

• Wait for the system to shut down completely, and then power off the system by pressing the system off

button. Ensure that the system is grounded.

• Open the system to gain access to the PCI backplane.

• Select an empty PCI or PCI-X slot and remove the slot cover. The card can operate in PCI 66 mode as well

as PCI-X mode. Some servers have “shared” slots. If you put this card in a shared slot that is shared with

a slower card, both cards will then operate at the slower card’s speed.

CAUTION This AB545A card DOES NOT SUPPORT PCI 33MHz 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.

1. If your LAN card was factory installed (ordered on product option 0D1), you do not need to perform

the hardware and software installation steps,. You still need to conﬁgure the card’s IP address and

possibly set other parameters and options such as those mentioned in Table 2 on page 9 The

Network Card Conﬁguration worksheet.