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Operating Systems AIX Need help finding missing drivers Post 302769125 by MichaelFelt on Monday 11th of February 2013 09:22:33 AM
Old 02-11-2013
Just to be sure I understand.

  1. Was running AIX 5.3 on Power7 hardware and the drivers were available.
  2. After migration upgrade to AIX 6.1 TL6 the drivers "disappeared".
I suspect (read am guessing) you migrated using a AIX 6.1 DVD that predates Power7. I am guessing this because "probably" all support for these devices came with Power7 (correct me if I am wrong here - Model and Type will help as well).

Without a driver I am not sure what lscfg -v will be able to say but the output from that command for these devices might give some clues, at least for a google search.

The more common problem is that this concerns OLD adapters that no longer are supported by AIX 6.1 (as an example I ran into this way back when when updating from AIX 4.1 to AIX 4.2 (or to 4.3) when AIX dropped support for the 2G tape drives. AIX could see them, and reported that it did not have a driver (as your error message does) - but there was not a driver available.
And I have seen it also with old generation graphic adapters.

Assuming there are drivers - if you can install a DVD
Code:
cfgmgr -i /dev/cd0

otherwise nfs mount an lpp_source, or download a complete TL6 with latest SP to /some/directory and then run
Code:
cfgmgr -i /some/directory

If the drivers are there, cfgmgr will find and install them. Note: one of the characteristics of a complete TL plus SP download is that it contains ALL drivers!
If you go to fixcentral and download be sure to say the level of the install DVD as base (not your current level) to get "installable" (i.e. so called .I filesets) rather than "update" (.U).
FYI: yet another way is to use SUMA (smit suma). I prefer this whenever possible, but not everyone can direct attach (to internet) an AIX system - i.e., firewall rules prohibit it.

In short, if there are drivers - get them into /some/directory, then
Code:
cfgmgr -i /some/directory

 

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cfgmgr_set_status(9r)													     cfgmgr_set_status(9r)

NAME
cfgmgr_set_status - General: Reports failure to the cfgmgr framework SYNOPSIS
int cfgmgr_set_status( char *driver_name ); ARGUMENTS
Specifies the name of the device driver for which you want to report an associated failure. This name is a string that matches the string you specified for the entry_name item in the /etc/sysconfigtab database. Typically, third-party driver writers specify the driver name (followed by a colon) in the sysconfigtab file fragment, which gets appended to the /etc/sysconfigtab database during the driver product installation. DESCRIPTION
The cfgmgr_set_status routine reports to the cfgmgr framework that a failure has occurred during static configuration. If the specified device driver is in the static configuration state, it does not know that the configuration operation is complete until all register call- back requests (routines) have successfully completed. Therefore, a device driver calls cfgmgr_set_status to report a possible failure dur- ing static configuration to the cfgmgr framework. Specifically, cfgmgr_set_status performs the following failure operations: Adjusts the state of the specified device driver Unconfigures the specified device driver from the cfgmgr framework The cfgmgr_set_status routine calls the device driver's configure routine at its CFG_OP_UNCONFIGURE entry point as part of these failure operations. The code associated with the CFG_OP_UNCONFIGURE entry point is responsible for determining how to deallocate any allocated resources during these failure operations. The cfgmgr_set_status routine does not notify the operator of a configuration failure. Part of the code associated with the CFG_OP_UNCON- FIGURE entry point could include an error logging operation to record the fact that a failure has occurred. The reason for doing this is that the cfgmgr framework's task is to accomplish the unconfigure operation of a statically configured device driver. You call the cfgmgr_set_status routine in the device driver's callback routine when the static configuration operation fails. You register a callback routine by calling the register_callback routine. RETURN VALUES
Upon successful completion, cfgmgr_set_status returns the value ESUCCESS. This success value indicates that cfgmgr_set_status adjusted the state of the device driver and caused the cfgmgr framework to unconfigure the driver. Otherwise, cfgmgr_set_status returns one of the fol- lowing error constants defined in /usr/sys/include/sys/sysconfig.h and /usr/sys/include/sys/errno.h: The device driver that you specified in the driver_name argument does not exist. In this case, cfgmgr_set_status cannot adjust the state and unconfigure the device driver. The device driver that you specified in the driver_name argument was not statically configured. The device driver that you specified in the driver_name argument is not in the static configuration state. EXAMPLES
See Writing Device Drivers: Tutorial for a code example of the cfgmgr_set_status interface. SEE ALSO
Routines: cfgmgr_get_state(9r), register_callback(9r) cfgmgr_set_status(9r)
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