A9782A & A9784A PCI-X 2 Gigabit Fibre Channel and Gigabit Ethernet Combination Card Installation Guide

Chapter 1

1 HP-UX Installation

These instructions apply to A9782A and A9784A PCI-X combination cards on HP-UX 11i v1 and 11i v2. The

following installation steps are detailed in this section:

• “Step 1: Access the system card bay”

• “Step 2: Install the card”

• “Step 3: Connect the card to the network”

• “Step 4: Connect the ﬁbre channel devices”

• “Step 5: Prepare to install the software”

• “Step 6: Install the latest software.”

• “Step 7: Conﬁgure the card using SAM”

• “Step 8: Verify the ﬁbre channel installation”

• “Step 9: Verify the LAN installation”

• “Optional Step: Conﬁgure Jumbo Frames Size”

• “Network Card Conﬁguration Worksheet”

The Base-T cards (A9784A) operate at 10 or 100 Mbit/s in either full- or half-duplex modes and at 1000 Mbit/s

only in full-duplex mode. The 1000Base-SX cards (A9782A) operate only at 1000 Mbit/s and in full-duplex

mode. Ensure that you set both your switch and gigabit Ethernet card to autonegotiation or set both to the

same speed and duplex mode. You can ﬁnd the LAN and ﬁbre channel drivers on the December 2003 (or later)

OE or application software disk. Note: you will not need to perform the following hardware and software

installation steps if your combination card was factory installed (ordered on product option 0D1) or its LAN

port is the “built-in” or “core” LAN.)

NOTE The Fibre Channel component of the HP A9782A, A9784A Fibre Channel-Ethernet

combination card uses the same fcd driver (FibrChanl-01) as the HP A6826A Fibre Channel

adapter. See the HP Fibre Channel Mass Storage Adapters Support Guide for details on the

Fibre Channel component of these combination cards.

The Ethernet component of the HP AB465A Fibre Channel-Ethernet combination card uses the

same igelan driver (GigEther-01) as the HP AB465A combination card and the A6825A and

A6847A Ethernet cards. See the Ethernet Support Guide for details on the Ethernet component

of these combination cards.

All product documentation, including Ethernet and Fibre Channel Support Guides, the most

recent edition of this Installation Guide, Release Notes, and Support Matrixes containing

current information on supported servers, HP-UX versions, drivers, system ﬁrmware

requirements, and adapter ﬁrmware requirements, is available online at: http://docs.hp.com

under “Networking and Communications” and then under the “Combination Cards” product

category.

Thank you for purchasing HP I/O Cards

If you are installing an HP I/O card as an add-in device, please review this document before installation.

If an HP I/O card was factory installed in your server, you can skip to Step 8: Verify the ﬁbre channel

installation to verify the installation.