07-22-2008
I think your query needs to be more specific...
An adapter is a physical device that allows one hardware or electronic interface to be adapted (accommodated without loss of function) to another hardware or electronic interface. In a computer, an adapter is often built into a card that can be inserted into a slot on the computer's motherboard.
10 More Discussions You Might Find Interesting
1. IP Networking
Im newest in unix,
Please, give me solution for installing lan adapter if driver not found in the list of ethernet drivers
ihave unix driver in a dos diskete
please give me the other solution
and tell me where the domain of unix class online, so ican read from it.
Thank's very much (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: ade_muhdiat
3 Replies
2. Solaris
Hi. I need to find a simple SCSI adapter card for a Sun Ultra 5 workstation. I don't need the type w/ ethernet attached (e.g. X1032) as I already have ethernet onboard & they are more spendy.
I know Adaptec is out, but what unit would work? I am attaching an external SCSI tape unit to this... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: Plain Person
4 Replies
3. AIX
hello
i've need to change network adapter on machine H80 aix 4.3.3 hacmp ( ent0 )
what i need to do after the new adapter installed on the machine?
thanks
best regards
ariec (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: ariec
1 Replies
4. Solaris
I have a Dual Boot system - XP with Solaris 10. I built the system from the ground up with different components and the Ethernet Card built into the Motherboard is a Marvell Yukon Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000 T-base, RJ-45 Copper.
I am unable to go to the Web as the Ethernet Card is still not... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: tubbyrana
2 Replies
5. AIX
When I configure two VIO Servers, VIOS1 used to ping its gateway, after I configured second VIOS2, VIOS1 cannpt ping its gateway, when I run this command:
entstat -all ent#|grep -i priority
Priority: 5 Active: False
How to make Active to True? (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: rainbow_bean
1 Replies
6. SCO
I inserted a PCI Realtek RTL8139 network adapter on a PC running SCO Openserver 5.0.6.
I successfully loaded drivers and I'm trying to install the card with netconfig command, unfortunately without success.
Here are the steps I follow to install the card:
I run netconfig, from menu 'hardware'... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: kampus
2 Replies
7. AIX
Hello,
Runing VIO and couple lpars on POWER blade.
I want to dedicate graphics adapter(ati0) to one lpar. Is that possible ?
I tried to do that using IVM (I/O Adapter Management->View/Modify Physical Adapters->Modify partition assignment):
Failed to remove adapter U78A6.001.WIH4088-P2-C8... (1 Reply)
Discussion started by: vilius
1 Replies
8. AIX
Hi,
I want to change from vscsi to npiv. Is it possible to use both on the same adapter, so we can change the systems one by one, or must we place a second FC adapter in the VIO servers?
Thanks,
Ronald (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: ronaldm60
2 Replies
9. Red Hat
Hi,
I have installed Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 in my PC. After the installation the Ethernet Card is not got detected.
But I could able to get the details using the command lspci -a:
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Attansic Technology Corp. L1 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (rev b0).
But I could... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: chidhu.anu
4 Replies
10. AIX
Hi,
We had a hardware problem with an IBM System p5 server, with AIX 5.2
We restore from a tape the last backup we had, but the server does not boot up as expected.
The server try to mount some directories from a storage, but could not comunicate with them, we check the FC and everything is... (12 Replies)
Discussion started by: trevian3969
12 Replies
LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS
socal
socal(7D) Devices socal(7D)
NAME
socal - Serial Optical Controller for Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop (SOC+) device driver
SYNOPSIS
socal@sbus-slot,0
DESCRIPTION
The Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter is an SBus card which implements two full duplex Fibre Channel interfaces. Each Fibre Channel interface
can connect to a Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL).
The socal device driver is a nexus driver and implements portions of the FC-2 and FC-4 layers of FC-AL.
FILES
/kernel/drv/socal ELF Kernel Module
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Architecture |SPARC |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
sbus(4), sf(7D), ssd(7D)
Writing Device Drivers
ANSI X3.230-1994, Fibre Channel Physical and Signalling Interface (FC-PH)
ANSI X3.272-1996, Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL)
Fibre Channel Private Loop SCSI Direct Attach (FC-PLDA)
DIAGNOSTICS
The messages described below may appear on system console in addition to being logged.
On the console, these messages are preceded by:
socal%d: port %a
where %d is the instance number of the socal controller and %a is the port on the host adapter.
Fibre Channel Loop is ONLINE
The Fibre Channel loop is now online.
Fibre Channel Loop is OFFLINE
The Fibre Channel loop is now offline.
attach failed: device in slave-only slot.
Move soc+ card to another slot.
attach failed: bad soft state.
Driver did not attach, devices will be inaccessible.
attach failed: unable to alloc xport struct.
Driver did not attach, devices will be inaccessible.
attach failed: unable to map eeprom
Driver was unable to map device memory; check for bad hardware. Driver did not attach to device, devices will be inaccessible.
attach failed: unable to map XRAM
Driver was unable to map device memory; check for bad hardware. Driver did not attach to device, devices will be inaccessible.
attach failed: unable to map registers
Driver was unable to map device registers; check for bad hardware. Driver did not attach to device, devices will be inaccessible.
attach failed: unable to access status register
Driver was unable to map device registers; check for bad hardware. Driver did not attach to device, devices will be inaccessible.
attach failed: unable to install interrupt handler
Driver was not able to add the interrupt routine to the kernel. Driver did not attach to device, devices will be inaccessible.
attach failed: unable to access host adapter XRAM
Driver was unable to access device RAM; check for bad hardware. Driver did not attach to device, devices will be inaccessible.
attach failed: unable to write host adapter XRAM
Driver was unable to write device RAM; check for bad hardware. Driver did not attach to device, devices will be inaccessible.
attach failed: read/write mismatch in XRAM
Driver was unable to verify device RAM; check for bad hardware. Driver did not attach to device, devices will be inaccessible.
SunOS 5.11 9 May 1997 socal(7D)