A week has gone by, I fubared the original install trying to fix it; so I spent a couple of days creating a new install. I have the system installed and almost up to SLES9x SP3. SPident complains about two XFree86-Mesa packages not being up to the SP2 level, but I can't find the update RPMs on the Novell site to download ad update the system. As they should not affect network interfaces, I'm satisfied, event if SPident is not. I will say that I am a bit confused abut YOU showing all these updates, but not selecting them. Many seem either back-level or for products not installed.
I once again have installed the OSA adapter (needed for NFS install). I also reinstalled the Hipersockets definition. information follows: eth0 = OSA adapter hsi0 = Hipersockets ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 02:00:00:00:00:02 inet addr:xxx.yyy.40.21 Bcast:xxx.yyy.40.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::200:0:600:2/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:12403 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:7529 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:9792252 (9.3 Mb) TX bytes:1988074 (1.8 Mb) hsi0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00:00 inet addr:xxx.yyy.1.103 Bcast:xxx.yyy.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::200:ff:fe00:0/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:8192 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:224 (224.0 b) lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:752 (752.0 b) TX bytes:752 (752.0 b) ------ route Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface xxx.yyy.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 hsi0 xxx.yyy.40.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 link-local * 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 loopback * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo default xxx.state.nj.us 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 ------ uname -a Linux lnxa0001 2.6.5-7.286-s390x #1 SMP Thu May 31 10:12:58 UTC 2007 s390x s390x s390x GNU/Linux xxx.yyy is the same for each adapter above. Any ideas? Kim -- Kim Goldenberg Systems Programmer I State of NJ - OIT 609-777-3722 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390