SUMMARY: 3X-DE600-AA NIC in Tru64 V4.0G

From: Randy Rodgers <randy.rodgers_at_ci.ft-wayne.in.us>
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 16:35:17 -0500

Managers,

Original question:

We have installed a 3X-DE600-AA NIC in an AlphaServer 4100 running
Tru64 UNIX V4.0G & TruCluster 1.6. When we do a "show fru" & "show
dev" the NIC shows up with a name of "ei0", but when we boot the
GENERIC kernel & build a new kernel, it fails to show up in the
configuration file. I have found reference to a New Hardware
Delivery CD for V4.0F. Is this also necessary for V4.0G or is there
something else I am missing?


SUMMARY:

We found in the Release Notes for V4.0G that the 3X-DE600-AA NIC was
supported in V4.0G. Apparently we did not boot the GENERIC kernel as
we had thought we had. Here is what we did that worked:

Ran netsetup & removed the tu0 interface (we were replacing a DE500
NIC.

Shutdown, swapped the DE500 NIC with the DE600.

Booted the generic kernel single-user mode(b -fi /genvmunix -fl s)

Ran "sizer -n test", which placed a configuration file in /tmp/test.

Found the following line in the file just below "Static Driver
Definitions": "config_driver ee"

Added this line to our configuration file in /sys/conf/MACHINENAME.

Ran doconfig -c MACHINENAME.

Placed the new kernel into production & rebooted multi-user mode.

Ran netsetup to add the new interface (ee0).

Rebooted.


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