| Title: | DIGITAL UNIX (FORMERLY KNOWN AS DEC OSF/1) |
| Notice: | Welcome to the Digital UNIX Conference |
| Moderator: | SMURF::DENHAM |
| Created: | Thu Mar 16 1995 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
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I installed a proteon 1990 plus token ring card on a Alphaserver 4100
running Digital UNIX 3.2g. I have done all the necessary steps :
- run ECU, rebuild kernel and copy it to root. Run netsetup to
configure the IP address and subnet mask.
I have checked during the boot process to ensure that the token ring card
is recognised.
I do a ping on localhost and it is fine. But, when I tried to ping
on the assigned IP address, it give an error message "Network is down".
I try and ping any invalid address and I got the same error message.
I do not have the driver for the proteon card. I suspect this could
be the problem. Could anyone guide me by giving me the pointer to
get the proteon 1990 plus driver for Digital UNIX 3.2g ?
I have tried the proteon homepage without success. I need this
driver urgently as my demo is tomorrow.
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| 8611.1 | ZPOVC::SOONHENG | Tue Jan 28 1997 08:23 | 2 | ||
The Digital model number for proteon 1990 plus is DW300
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| 8611.2 | you appear to have the driver already | NETRIX::"[email protected]" | Farrell Woods | Tue Jan 28 1997 11:22 | 32 |
If the kernel successfully probed the hardware then that means you have
configured the kernel correctly. The driver is present and it found
the hardware.
Did you see any error messages from ifconfig when the system came up?
What happens when you just say:
# ifconfig tra0
It should come back with something that looks like this:
tra0: flags=c63<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,MULTICAST,SIMPLEX>
inet 16.140.32.161 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 16.140.32.255 ipmtu 1500
(Note: the ipmtu value that you see will be different.)
Note that you cannot expect to ping arbitrary IP addresses. In the above
example, I could attempt to ping addresses in the range of 16.140.32.0
through 16.140.32.255. Pinging your own IP address will not tell you that
the hardware is working either. You need one other host on the ring that you
*know* works, and that host must be configured with an IP address on the
same subnet as yours.
If some or none of this makes sense then I'd urge you to find someone
in your office to help you out.
-- Farrell
[Posted by WWW Notes gateway]
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| 8611.3 | Unsupported on 4100 | NETRIX::"[email protected]" | Brian Haley | Tue Jan 28 1997 11:53 | 12 |
Hi, There was just another note in this conference (8548.1) that said the only supported Token Ring adapter for the 4100 is the PCI PBXNP. The Alphaserver 4100 options page confirms this: http://www.digital.com/info/alphaserver/tech_docs/alphasrv4100/docs/supported_ ptions.html#comms -Brian [Posted by WWW Notes gateway] | |||||
| 8611.4 | thank you | ZPOVC::SOONHENG | Thu Jan 30 1997 19:32 | 2 | |
Thank you for your help.
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