Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 4 - INSTALLATION GUIDE FOR IBM S-390 AND IBM ESERVER ZSERIES Installation Manual page 89

Due to the length of this command, it has been broken into two lines.
In the following example,
and
data_device_bus_id
be assigned to this interface is 192.168.70.69.
# echo 0.0.0600,0.0.0601,0.0.0602 > /sys/bus/ccwgroup/drivers/qeth/group
Next, verify that the
qeth
# ls /sys/bus/ccwgroup/drivers/qeth
0.0.0600 0.0.09a0
You may optionally add a portname. First, you must check to see if a portname is required:
# cat /sys/bus/ccwgroup/drivers/qeth/0.0.0600/portname
no portname required
The response indicates that you do not need to provide a portname.
To add a port name, check that the devices are offline, and then run the following command:
Note
The device(s) must be offline when you add a portname.
# echo <portname> > /sys/bus/ccwgroup/drivers/qeth/0.0.0600/portname
Next, bring the device back online:
# echo 1 /sys/bus/ccwgroup/drivers/qeth/0.0.0600/online
Then verify the state of the device:
# cat /sys/bus/ccwgroup/drivers/qeth/0.0.0600/online
1
read_device_bus_id
is 0.0.0602. The device is a z/VM virtual NIC and the IP address to
group device was created properly:
group notifier_register
is 0.0.0600,
write_device_bus_id
Adding a Device
qeth
is 0.0.0601,
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