Communications adapter removal

Before you can remove or replace a hot-plug adapter, you must unconfigure that adapter.

Unconfiguring a communications adapter involves the following tasks:

• Closing all applications that are using the adapter you are removing or replacing
• Ensuring that all devices connected to the adapter are identified and stopped
• Listing all slots that are currently in use or a slot that is occupied by a specific adapter
• Identifying the adapter's slot location
• Displaying and removing interface information from the network interface list
• Making the adapter unavailable

To unconfigure communications adapters with the following procedures you must log in as root: