Question : vlan problem

I'm trying to creat a second vlan on my cisco 2900-xl and the following is whet i get even with the "no shutdown" command

VLAN2 is administratively down, line protocol is down
  Hardware is CPU Interface, address is 0002.1656.c000 (bia 0002.1656.c000)
  Internet address is 192.168.16.1/24
  MTU 1500 bytes, BW 10000 Kbit, DLY 1000 usec,
     reliability 255/255, txload 1/255, rxload 1/255
  Encapsulation ARPA
  ARP type: ARPA, ARP Timeout 04:00:00

Answer : vlan problem

Hi Lenny,
The 2900XL is purely a layer 2 switch, not a router, so you don't need to create a vlan interface on the switch for each vlan you create in the vlan-database.
A vlan will not show up as being up until it is assigned to a physical interface.
If you want to give the switch an ip address for management purposes, say in your example on vlan3, you need to do first shut down interface vlan 1:
conf t
int vlan1
shut
int vlan3
not shut
ip address 192.168.20.1 255.255.255.0
exit
ip mgmt-vlan vlan3

You should then be able to ping the vlan3 interface if your machine is also on vlan3