Mark, If that's SLES12, you need to take them out of the cio_ignore list, with:
# cio_ignore -r <ID> Hope that helps. Regards, -- Pedro Principeza Senior SW Support Engineer - IBM Brazil Linux Support From: Mark Pace <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: 08/19/2016 12:01 PM Subject: Dynamically add a network port Sent by: Linux on 390 Port <[email protected]> Trying to dynamically add a network port. Granted linux access to the vswitch set vswitch vswbpic grant sles001 Command complete Then defined the virtual nic to linux sles001:~ # vmcp define nic 3d00 type qdio dev 3 NIC 3D00 is created; devices 3D00-3D02 defined sles001:~ # vmcp couple 3d00 system vswbpic NIC 3D00 is connected to VSWITCH SYSTEM VSWBPIC When I try to bring the nic online. sles001:~ # chccwdev -e 0.0.3d00-0.0.3d02 Setting device 0.0.3d00 online Failed (Invalid argument) Failed Not sure what I am missing, or what the Invalid argument is. -- The postings on this site are my own and don’t necessarily represent Mainline’s positions or opinions Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
