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by **Toby Kwa** » Thu, 09 Jan 1997 04:00:00

Recently I received one Ethernet 100-base-T adapter and one SCSI II
Fast-Narrow Adapter, and with the following intended installation:

3-Com 3C905TX on E30 running AIX 4.2
Adaptec AHA1640 on J30 running AIX 4.1.4

I was not optimistic before I tried installing these adapters because I
knew that these were all intended for installation on PC. But when I run
'cfgmgr' on the two machines, it reported that the following device drivers
were required:

devices.pci.b7105090 (for the Ethernet card)
devices.mca.01f1 (for the SCSI adapter)

Does it mean that if I'm able to find out these drivers I can successfully
install these cards onto the systems?

But one more pt. I failed to find out any of these two drivers, in all of
my available installation and update media. Maybe it is because the
adapters are not from IBM.

by **Chris Thom** » Thu, 09 Jan 1997 04:00:00

> I was not optimistic before I tried installing these adapters because I
> knew that these were all intended for installation on PC. But when I run
> 'cfgmgr' on the two machines, it reported that the following device drivers
> were required:

> devices.pci.b7105090 (for the Ethernet card)
> devices.mca.01f1 (for the SCSI adapter)

> Does it mean that if I'm able to find out these drivers I can successfully
> install these cards onto the systems?

The name is being generated automatically and it is the name of the driver
that the system will use to support the device or card. BUT it does .not.
mean that it exists. If the device is not listed as supported by IBM,
then you won't find the driver on IBM's media. For OEM devices, you need
to ask the mfgr if they have an AIX driver for the device.

--
Chris Thomas
Manager, Systems Programming
UCLA Office of Academic Computing

by **Tom Weav** » Thu, 09 Jan 1997 04:00:00

>I was not optimistic before I tried installing these adapters because I
>knew that these were all intended for installation on PC. But when I run
>'cfgmgr' on the two machines, it reported that the following device drivers
>were required:

>devices.pci.b7105090 (for the Ethernet card)
>devices.mca.01f1 (for the SCSI adapter)

>Does it mean that if I'm able to find out these drivers I can successfully
>install these cards onto the systems?

No; it means that if there were drivers for these cards, the conventions used
by AIX are such that the above is what their names would have to be.
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