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Conference 7.286::fddi

Title:	FDDI - The Next Generation

Moderator:	NETCAD::STEFANI

Created:	Thu Apr 27 1989
Last Modified:	Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	2259
Total number of notes:	8590

1683.0. "LANCP problems upgrading DEFEA firmware on A2100 " by KERNEL::MCSKEANEP (one bit brain with parity error) Thu May 11 1995 12:49

    
    Cross posted in VAXAXP::VMSNOTES
    
    I'm trying to update the firmware on a DEFEA card from 2.3 to 2.46
    on an Alpha 2100 runing VMS 6.1 using LANCP. I'm using the command 
    
    $MC LANCP UPDATE DEV FRA0/FILE=filename as suggested in note 1672.4. 
    
    However the command is failing after about 2 minutes with a 
    'cannot update lan device running cluster communications' 
    
    I have checked under SDA that SCA is not running on the DEFEA (infact
    no protocol is running on the DEFEA). I then rebooted my 2100 so that
    no protocols were started on any device but it still failed with the
    above error message.
    
    I had a quick look at the listings for LANCP UPDATE and the FRDRIVER
    and it seems that its failing with  SS$_UNSUPPORTED. The only place I
    could find this in the LANCP listings are around the checks for the
    SCA protocol in the upgrade section of the FRDRIVER. 
    
    Has anbody got LANCP working correctly and if so what needs to be done
    to get it working?
    
    Thanks in advance
    
    POL.

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
1683.1		STAR::STOCKDALE		`Tue Jun 06 1995 09:53`	4
	See note 1672.*. The only problem was not having the right file (note that the wrong and misleading error message was displayed as well). - Dick