Product

• Brisque^® 5.x
• Brisque 4.x
• Brisque Serve

Procedure

A new adapter for Brisque and Brisque Serve is required since the IBM^® Gigabit adapter for Brisque v4.x (AIX^® 4.3.3) is now obsolete and the only other available adapter is IBM v5. However, since this adapter is not suitable for Brisque v4.x and Brisque Serve, the new adapter Gigabit Copper SK—9821 by SysKonnect is offered:

• Creo P/N 501R49702 (kit): Gigabit Copper for Brisque and Brisque Serve
• Creo P/N 609—00329 (adapter): SK—9821 10/100/1000 Ethernet (Copper)
• Creo P/N 651—00339A (diskette): SK—Ethernet driver for AIX 4.3.3 (for Brisque v4.x and Brisque Serve)
• Creo P/N 651—00389A (diskette): SK—Ethernet driver for AIX 5.2 (for Brisque v5.x)

The new adapter requires a special driver that should be loaded before installing the adapter. The driver for your system can be downloaded either from this document or from the diskette that is supplied with the adapter, as part of the kit (refer to P/N listed above).

To install the driver:

1. First you need to download the necessary driver:
   
   • For Brisque 5.x, download sk98a52p.pck.Z and sk_ethernet_v5.
   • For Brisque 4.x and Brisque Serve, download sk98a4x3p.pck.Z and sk_ethernet.
     
     Alternatively, insert the SK driver diskette for your system:
   • For Brisque 5.x, use diskette 651—00389A SK—Ethernet driver for AIX 5.2
   • For Brisque 4.x and Brisque Serve, use diskette 651—00339A SK—Ethernet driver for AIX 4.3.3
2. For Brisque 5.x, run:
   #tar xvf /dev/fd0 and press Enter
   #cd /tmp and press Enter
   #sk_ethernet_v5 and press Enter.
3. For Brisque 4.x and Brisque Serve, run:
   #tar xvf /dev/fd0 and press Enter
   #cd /tmp and press Enter
   #sk_ethernet and press Enter.
4. If you installed the driver from the diskette, remove the diskette now.
   
5. Shutdown the workstation and install the adapter.

To check that the new adapter driver is properly installed, run the command:

#lsdev -Cs pci |grep ent and press Enter.

The prompt should display the following line:
ent2 Available 30-68 Gigabit Ethernet-SX PCI Adapter (14100401)

Note: For Brisque 5.x, the following IBM adapter is available and supported by Brisque (no additional driver is required):

• Creo P/N (kit): 015—00697A Gigabit Copper U/G for Brisque 5.x
• Creo P/N (adapter): 603—00365 10/100/1000 Ethernet PCI—X (5701)

Technical contact(s)

Lev Weissman

Date submitted

28 Apr 2005