Instruction/ maintenance manual of the product Ethernet PCI Adapter Sun Microsystems
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1 Sun FastEthernet PCI Adapter Pr oduct Note This document contains the late-breaking news and documentation updates for the Sun™ FastEthernet™ PCI adapter .
2 Sun F astEthernet PCI Adapter Product Note • A ugust 1997 ▼ T o Replace the SunSwift PCI Adapter W ith a Sun FastEthernet PCI Adapter in the Same PCI Slot Note – Refer to your system’s installation or service manual for detailed instructions for the following three steps.
Sun F astEthernet PCI Adapter Product Note 3 6. Perform a reconf iguration boot on your system. After rebooting your system, login as super -user (root). 7. At the command line, use the grep command to search the /etc/path_to_inst f ile for hme devices.
4 Sun F astEthernet PCI Adapter Product Note • A ugust 1997 ▼ T o Replace the Sun FastEthernet PCI Adapter W ith a SunSwift PCI Adapter in the Same PCI Slot Note – Refer to your system’s installation or service manual for detailed instructions for the following three steps.
Sun F astEthernet PCI Adapter Product Note 5 7. At the command line, use the grep command to search the /etc/path_to_inst f ile for hme devices. In the example above, the network@1,1 instance is the o.
6 Sun F astEthernet PCI Adapter Product Note • A ugust 1997 Using the test net Command on an Adapter W ith an External T ransceiver If your adapter is connected to an external transceiver , you will see incorr ect error messages when using the OpenBoot PROM (OBP) test net command.
Sun F astEthernet PCI Adapter Product Note 7 Autonegotiation Autonegotiation is broken (10Mbps) in the hme driver . Refer to bug id. 4064879 for more information. Patch 104212-06 fixes bug 4064879. Ultra 170E In the Ultra 170E, an MII-AUI transceiver hangs the network in 10Base-T mode.
8 Sun F astEthernet PCI Adapter Product Note • A ugust 1997.
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