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- From: dgogates@eberry ()
- Subject: Re: chgenet not showing Adapter Connector
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- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 13:59:00 GMT
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- In article <1gtqkvINN3em@crcnis1.unl.edu> james@engrs.unl.edu (James Nau) writes:
- >
- >I have someone asking me about setting up his model 350 running
- >AIX 3.2.mumble (could be from 0 to 3 for all I know) and connecting
- >to ethernet. No problem, I've done about 20 or so RS/6000's. Well,
- >when one does 'smit -C chgenet', it lists all the normal options,
- >but NO line for switching from bnc to dix! (Of course, we need dix :)
- >Using the X based smit did the same thing.
- >
- >I only had about 10 minutes to work on it before a meeting, but
- >has it changed how to change dix/bnc? Email preferred, and I'll
- >summarize (I'm like, WWWWAAAAYYYY behind in news!) Perhaps I
- >can blindly do a "chdev -l 'ent0' -a bnc_select='dix'". BUT, why
- >is there no 'line' in smit, and no error message?
- >
- >Thanks
- >James
-
- For the IBM RS/6000 model 350 the ethernet controller is built into the planner
- board. There is a riser card that has the bnc and dix connector on it. There is
- also another riser card that has the twisted pair jack on it. When you want to
- switch between bnc and dix you have to move a set of jumpers on the riser card.
- When the system is re-started AIX determines the jumper setting on this card
- and sets the ethernet configuration according to those jumpers. That is the reason
- that you cannot change this setting thru smit.
- BYW, you will need to get PTF U410209, this has a new device driver for the
- integrated ethernet.
- Regards.
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