Newbie trying to setup the Ethernet Connection...

Greetings everyone,

I work for a small software company and we just purchased our first IBM
AS/400 (9406-170) to use for testing purposes. Our software is used to
query a variety of databases and many of our customers use DB2 on the
AS/400.

Now that we have abox here in-house, Im trying to get it connected to
our internal network. I followed the steps on the IBM web site, and it
looked like I was there. I tried pinging the local IP that I had
configured, but no response from my workstation. Somewhere on the
site, it mentioned running the EZ-Setup wizard, but I cant find this
CD, nor do I know how to start it once I find it.. *sigh*

Here's what I did so far:
1) Used 'Go Hardware' to view the Communication Resources, and saw the
Ethernet Port listed as Resource CMN03, Type 2838, Stauts Operational,
Text says Ethernet Port. Above this in the list was resource LIN02
with all the same setting except Text=LAN Adpater.

2) I created a line description as instructed in the next step. Here
is every parameter on this page (I only had to type in the first 2):
Line Description: ETHLAN2
Resource Name: CMN03
Online at IPL: *YES
Vary On Wait: *NOWAIT
Local Adpater Address: *ADPT
Exchange Identifier: *SYSGEN
Ethernet Standard: *ALL
Line Speed: 10M
SSAP List:
Source Service Access Point *SYSGEN
SSAP Maximum Frame: {Blank}
SSAP Type: {Blank}
Text Description: *BLANK

3) It said that the line description was created successfully. Next
step was to configure an interface, which I did by adding one under
option 1 of the TCP/IP menu (Work with TCP/IP Interfaces) and entered
the Internet Address (192.168.16.x), Line Description of ETHLAN2 and
subment mask (255.255.255.0). I didnt touch any of the other
parameters, which are as follows:
Associated Local Interface: *NONE
Type of Service: *NORMAL
Maximum Transmission Unit: *LIND
Autostart: *YES
PVC Logical Channel Identifier: {blank}
X.25 idle circuit timeout: 60
X.25 maximum virtual circuits: 64
X.25 DDN Interface: *NO
TRLAN bit sequencing: *MSB

This adds the interface, but when I attempt to start it, it hangs for a
few seconds and says something like "Unable to determine if
'192.168.16.x' started...

I then issued the command strtcp to start TCP/IP and when i go back to
the interface menu and display the statuses, it shows this interface as
"Starting".
One other thing to note is that there is a loopback device listed above
the ethernet device with an address of 127.0.0.1 that says "Active".
It does resond to the ping test. Also, I did verify that the AS/400
has a 10Mb link light on our network hub.

Any help or pointers to online resources would be greatly appreciated.
I purchased the book "Mastering the AS/400", which looks pretty good,
but it doesnt go into any detail about configuring hardware and network
connections.

Thanks in advance,
-Ben

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