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Operating Systems AIX Some questions about Intellistation 285 and powervm Post 302885509 by bakunin on Monday 27th of January 2014 06:13:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Linusolaradm1

Some simple questions about Intellistation 285 and powervm.
I want to learn AIX,so i will buy an used I285 from ebay.
1)Will support aix 7.1?

Yes, probably. It is a POWER5+ system and should run AIX 7.1, but if it is able to do so in a supported manner is everybodies guess. Even if the hardware supports the OS it might need microcode (=firmware revisions) to do so and if this is available for such an old system for any OS revision is everybodies guess.

Having said this: i doubt that you will need 7.1 to learn AIX. Perhaps AIX 6.1 is quite sufficient for your purpose, the difference between 7.1 and 6.1 is - from the newcomers view - minimal. You will, for instance, not be able to do everything with WLPARs (workload partitions) in 6.1 which is possible in 7.1, but in practice WLPARs are not used anyway, because chroot-environments (even beautified ones, this, in fact, are WLPARs) are not really popular in the daily operations among admins.

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2)Is powervm avaliable?Where to download or buy it?

PowerVM is a licensed product. You need it if you want to do micropartitioning (simply speaking, allocate fractions of a CPU to a LPAR). The license is valid for a certain piece of hardware, therefore, if you need to license it or not will depend on the piece of hardware you buy. If you have to buy and deploy it the procedure is: you will get a download link, download the license file and apply it on (the firmware of) your system. Alas, i doubt that you will be able to buy a license for such a system, because it was withdrawn from the market in 2009.

I hope this helps.

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ipw

IPW(4)							   BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual 						    IPW(4)

NAME

     ipw -- Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 IEEE 802.11 driver

SYNOPSIS

     To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your kernel configuration file:

	   device ipw
	   device ipwfw
	   device pci
	   device wlan
	   device firmware

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

	   if_ipw_load="YES"

     In both cases, place the following line in loader.conf(5) to acknowledge the firmware license (see below):

	   legal.intel_ipw.license_ack=1

DESCRIPTION

     The ipw driver provides support for the Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 MiniPCI network adapter.  ipw supports station, adhoc, and monitor mode oper-
     ation.  Only one virtual interface may be configured at any time.	For more information on configuring this device, see ifconfig(8).

     This driver requires the firmware built with the ipwfw module to work.  For the loaded firmware to be enabled for use the license at
     /usr/share/doc/legal/intel_ipw/LICENSE must be agreed by adding the following line to loader.conf(5):

	   legal.intel_ipw.license_ack=1

FILES

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

EXAMPLES

     Join an existing BSS network (i.e., connect to an access point):

	   ifconfig wlan create wlandev ipw0 inet 192.168.0.20 
	       netmask 0xffffff00

     Join a specific BSS network with network name ``my_net'':

	   ifconfig wlan create wlandev ipw0 ssid my_net up

     Join a specific BSS network with 64-bit WEP encryption:

	   ifconfig wlan create wlandev ipw0 ssid my_net 
		   wepmode on wepkey 0x1234567890 weptxkey 1 up

     Join a specific BSS network with 128-bit WEP encryption:

	   ifconfig wlan create wlandev ipw0 wlanmode adhoc ssid my_net 
	       wepmode on wepkey 0x01020304050607080910111213 weptxkey 1

DIAGNOSTICS

     ipw%d: device timeout  The driver will reset the hardware.  This should not happen.

     ipw%d: firmware error  The onboard microcontroller crashes for some reason.  The driver will reset the hardware.  This should not happen.

     ipw%d: timeout waiting for firmware initialization to complete  The onboard microcontroller failed to initialize in time.	This should not
     happen.

     ipw%d: could not load firmware image '%s'	The driver failed to load the firmware image using the firmware(9) subsystem.  Verify the ipwfw(4)
     firmware module is installed and the license agreement loader(8) tunable has been set.

     ipw%d: could not load microcode  An attempt to upload the microcode image to the onboard microcontroller failed.  This should not happen.

     ipw%d: could not load firmware  An attempt to upload the firmware image to the onboard microcontroller failed.  This should not happen.

SEE ALSO

     ipwfw(4), pci(4), wlan(4), wlan_ccmp(4), wlan_tkip(4), wlan_wep(4), ifconfig(8), wpa_supplicant(8)

AUTHORS

     The original ipw driver was written by Damien Bergamini <damien.bergamini@free.fr>.

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