Compatibility and Installation Requirements

When used on A-class servers, the four-port PCI 10/100Base-TX/9000 card does not support Hewlett-Packard's MC Service Guard.

The PCI 10/100Base-TX/9000 card supports autonegotiation and autosensing. You should not normally need to manually configure the speed, autonegotiation, or duplex mode of the card. If your switch does not support autonegotiation but is set to full-duplex mode, there may be a mismatch between the card and the switch, because the card defaults to half-duplex for switches that do not support autonegotiation. You can determine what the card is set to by using lanadmin -x and reset it if necessary using lanadmin -X. See “Manual Speed and Duplex Mode Configuration” for details.

If you manually set the speed and duplex mode of the Base-TX card, autonegotiation will be turned off.

Both full- and half-duplex modes are supported. If your hub or switch does not support autonegotiation, ensure that your hub or switch is set to the desired duplex mode.

The PCI 0/100Base-TX/9000 LAN software is for use with only the following protocols: TCP/IP, ARPA, and NFS.

When using the ioscan -f command to verify installation, the last digit of the H/W Path (hardware path) will show the port number of the card. The other fields of the output will show the driver as btlan (for A5506A) or btlan5 (for B5509AA and A5230A), and the Hardware Type Description will be PCI.