IBM RS/6000 - Manual (Page 149)

15. Physically install the adapter on an ISA slot.
16. Power on and reboot the system.
17. Configure the adapter using the fastpath:
smit isa
Configure a Defined ISA Adapter
18. Verify the results with the following command:
lsdev -Cc adapter -s isa
If the configuration was successful, the adapter will be available, and the
system will display information similar to the following:
ampx1 Available 1- 4 X.25 Coprocessor/1 Adapter
19. Once the adapter status is Available , you may proceed to configuring and
setting up a X.25 network. Refer to the AIX/6000 X.25 LPP Cookbook,
GG24-4475, redbook which explains the X.25 concepts and provides
procedures to set up an X.25 network using the AIXLink/X.25 LPP software.
6.8 Ethernet and Token-Ring ISA Adapters
In this section, we describe how to configure ISA LAN Adapters. These adapters
cannot be ordered as optional features on the PCI servers because they are not
officially supported on this platform, but they are the same adapters that can be
ordered as optional features on 40P and 43P systems.
The ISA LAN Adapters that we tested are the ISA Ethernet Adapter and the Auto
16/4 Token-Ring ISA Adapter.
Both adapters have no DIP switches for setting the operating system parameters to
be used with them. They have to be set at
firmware level. As these adapters are
not officially supported by the PCI-based RS/6000 servers, it is not possible to set
the adapters' parameters using the Model E20 or Model F30 firmware. The only
way to set them is to install the adapters on a PCI-based RISC/6000 workstation
(40P/43P), or on a PC, by using the software provided with the adapter.
The general procedure to install and configure these ISA adapters is the same
procedure to that described in 6.3, “ISA Adapter Configuration” on page 104,
except for step number 5, as described in the following list:
1. Record parameter settings of ISA adapters already configured.
2. Select parameter values for new ISA adapters.
3. Install the adapter device driver.
4. Use smit isa to define the adapter.
5. Set the proper adapter parameters at firmware level by using a PCI-based
RISC/6000 workstation or by using a PC and the software provided by the
adapter.
6. Physically install the adapter on the PCI-based RISC/6000 server in a ISA slot.
7. Configure the adapter by using smit isa .
Since you could define adapters parameters at firmware level more than one time,
if some others adapters are installed on the PCI-based server system, we
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