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Operating Systems AIX AIX hangs on boot Post 302156951 by dukessd on Wednesday 9th of January 2008 04:52:26 PM

01-09-2008

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When the splash screen appears and the icons / words appear on the bottom of the screen you need to press 5 on the qwerty sde of the keyboard between the keyboard icon / word and the speaker icon / word, before the system beeps.

The F5 key was phased out a while ago now.

Boot the system and watch the screen, just in case kep tapping F5 and 5 alternalely to fill the keyboard buffer, then the system should recognise one or the other and boot the default service mode boot list which should have the CD before any hard disks.

If you have a serial console you can hit any key whilst the system is at standby and you should see the servie processor menu.

From here / the boot sub-menu you can select the cd as the boot device or if not, boot to sms and then select the cd as the boot device.

Also from the service processor menu you should see the firmware level in the second line of the title.

For the p630 AIX 5.3 support was added at firmware level 3R040323

The last part of the level - 040323 - is a date code, 23rd March 2004, if your firmware is earlier that is probably your problem.

If you have a floppy drive you can update the firmware from the service processor menus.

Firmware update readme:
http://download.boulder.ibm.com/ibmd.../70286C4F.html

Firmware for the p630:
http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp...1&mtm=7028-6C4

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ipwfw

IPWFW(4)						   BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual 						  IPWFW(4)

NAME

     ipwfw -- Firmware Module for Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 driver

SYNOPSIS

     To compile this module into the kernel, place the following line in your kernel configuration file:

	   device ipwfw

     This will include three firmware images inside the kernel.  If you want to pick only the firmware image for the mode you want to operate your
     network adapter in choose one of the following:

	   device ipwbssfw
	   device ipwibssfw
	   device ipwmonitorfw

     Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following lines in loader.conf(5):

	   ipw_bss_load="YES"
	   ipw_ibss_load="YES"
	   ipw_monitor_load="YES"

DESCRIPTION

     This module provides access to firmware sets for the Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 series of IEEE 802.11 adapters.  It may be statically linked
     into the kernel, or loaded as a module.

     For the loaded firmware to be enabled for use the license at /usr/share/doc/legal/intel_ipw/LICENSE must be agreed to by adding the following
     line to loader.conf(5):

	   legal.intel_ipw.license_ack=1

FILES

     /usr/share/doc/legal/intel_ipw/LICENSE  ipwfw firmware license

SEE ALSO

     ipw(4), firmware(9)

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