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Contents ix Setting Parameters Using the qfe.conf File 36 Setting ipg Driver Parameters Using a qfe.conf File 37 D. Running Diagnostics Tests 39 Using the OpenBoot PROM FCode Selftest 39 ▼ Running the Ethernet FCode Selftest Diagnostic 40

Preface xi Preface The Sun Quad FastEthernet PCI Adapter Installation and User ’s Guide providesinstallation instructions for the Sun™ Quad FastEthernet™ PCI Adapter. Thismanual also describes how to configure the Sun Quad FastEthernet driver software. These instructions are designed for system admi...

xii Sun Quad FastEthernet PCI Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • August 1997 Related Documents The following documents contain topics that relate to the informationin the Sun Quad FastEthernet PCI Adapter Installation and User ’s Guide. UNIX Commands This document may not include specific softw...

Preface xiii Typographic Conventions The following table describes the typographic changes used in this book. Shell Prompts The following table shows the default system prompt and superuser prompt for theC shell, Bourne shell, and Korn shell. Typeface orSymbol Meaning Example AaBbCc123 The names of ...

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2 Sun Quad FastEthernet PCI Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • August 1997 FIGURE 1-2 Sun Quad FastEthernet PCI adapter Back Panel Features This PCI adapter offers the following features: ■ Fully complies with the ANSI/IEEE std. 802.3 CSMA/CD physical layerspecification ■ Four Switchable 10BASE...

Chapter 1 Product Overview 3 Hardware and Software Requirements Before installing the adapter, make sure your system meets the following hardwareand software requirements: Note – The information above is up-to-date as of the printing of this manual. Visit Sun on the World Wide Web at http://www.sun....

5 C H A P T E R 2 Installing the Adapter This chapter tells you how to install the Sun Quad FastEthernet PCI adapter in yoursystem and how to verify that it has been installed correctly. Adding an Entry to the driver_aliases File If your system is running the Solaris 2.5.1 Hardware: 4/97 operating e...

6 Sun Quad FastEthernet PCI Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • August 1997 Installing the Adapter Note – Refer to your system installation or service manual for detailed instructions for the following tasks. 1. Power off your system and open the system unit. 2. Attach the adhesive copper strip ...

Chapter 2 Installing the Adapter 7 Verifying the Installation After you have installed the Sun Quad FastEthernet PCI adapter, but before you bootyour system, perform the following tasks to verify the installation. Refer to theSolaris 2.x Handbook for SMCC Peripherals manual or your Solaris documenta...

8 Sun Quad FastEthernet PCI Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • August 1997 Examining Network Activity After you have installed the Sun Quad FastEthernet PCI adapter, but before bootingthe system, verify the installation by examining the network interfaces with theOpenBoot PROM watch-net-all com...

Chapter 2 Installing the Adapter 9 Rebooting the System After you have examined the network activity, perform a reconfiguration boot onyour system so the operating environment can recognize the Sun Quad FastEthernetPCI adapter. ● Perform a reconfiguration boot on the system. Refer to the Solaris 2.x...

11 C H A P T E R 3 Configuring the Driver Software This chapter describes how to configure the driver software used by the Sun QuadFastEthernet PCI adapter. Installing the Driver Software The Sun Quad FastEthernet 2.0 CD-ROM contains the software required by the SunQuad FastEthernet PCI adapter. Ins...

12 Sun Quad FastEthernet PCI Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • August 1997 1. At the command line, use the grep command to search the /etc/path_to_inst file for qfe devices. In the example above, the four SUNW,qfe@ x ,1 instances are from a Sun Quad FastEthernet PCI adapter installed in slot 2...

Chapter 3 Configuring the Driver Software 13 Using the instance examples in Step 1, the following example shows the four /etc/hostname.qfe <num> files required for a system called zardoz that has a Sun Quad FastEthernet PCI adapter ( zardoz-11 , zardoz-12 , zardoz-13 , and zardoz-14) . 3. Crea...

14 Sun Quad FastEthernet PCI Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • August 1997 Booting From the Network To use a Sun Quad FastEthernet PCI adapter ethernet interface as the boot device,perform the following tasks: 1. At the ok prompt type: The show-devs command lists the system devices. You should...

Chapter 3 Configuring the Driver Software 15 Post-Installation Procedures (Optional) Perform the tasks in the following sections to customize the performance of the SunQuad FastEthernet PCI adapter. Configuring Driver Parameters The qfe device driver, which is loaded from the CD-ROM, controls the SU...

16 Sun Quad FastEthernet PCI Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • August 1997 Forcing Network Speed Between 10 Mbps and 100Mbps 1. At the ok prompt, use the show-devs command to list the system devices. You should see the full path names of the qfe devices, similar to the example below: 2. Type: ...

18 Sun Quad FastEthernet PCI Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • August 1997 local-mac-address Property Each of the network interfaces of the Sun Quad FastEthernet PCI adapter have beenassigned a unique MAC (Media Access Control) address, which represents the 48-bitethernet address for that chan...

19 A P P E N D I X A Specifications Physical Dimensions TABLE A-1 Physical Dimensions Assembly Dimension Measurement Length 7.395 in (186.06 mm) Width 4.759 in (120.88 mm) Height: Primary component side 0.570 in. (14.48 mm) Back side 0.105 in. (2.67 mm) Weight 5.2 oz (148 g)

23 A P P E N D I X B Configuring the Quad FastEthernetDevice Driver Parameters The qfe device driver controls the Sun Quad FastEthernet PCI adapter’s SUNW,qfe Ethernet devices. You can manually configure the qfe device driver parameters to customize each SUNW,qfe device in your system. This appendix...

24 Sun Quad FastEthernet PCI Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • August 1997 Driver Parameter Values and Definitions This section describes the parameters and settings for the qfe device driver. TABLE B-1 lists these parameters. TABLE B-1 qfe Driver Parameter, Status, and Descriptions Parameter ...

Appendix B Configuring the Quad FastEthernet Device Driver Parameters 25 Defining the Current Status The read-only parameters described in TABLE B-2 explain the operational mode of the interface. These parameters define the current status. Inter-Packet Gap Parameters The PCI Fast Ethernet and Expans...

26 Sun Quad FastEthernet PCI Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • August 1997 TABLE B-3 lists the default values and allowable values for the inter-packet gap (IPG) parameters, ipg1 and ipg2 . By default, the driver sets ipg1 to 8-byte time and ipg2 to 4-byte time, which are the standard values. ...

28 Sun Quad FastEthernet PCI Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • August 1997 Defining the Number of Back-to-Back Packets toTransmit The pace_size parameter (see TABLE B-6 ) defines the maximum number of back-to- back packets you can transmit at one time. If the value is zero, there is no limit t...

Appendix B Configuring the Quad FastEthernet Device Driver Parameters 29 Reporting the Link Partner Capabilities TABLE B-8 describes the read-only link partner capabilities. If the link partner is not capable of auto-negotiation (when lp_autoneg_cap is 0) the information described in TABLE B-8 is no...

30 Sun Quad FastEthernet PCI Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • August 1997 Setting qfe Driver Parameters You can set the qfe device driver parameters in three ways ( ndd , /etc/system , and qfe.conf ), depending on your needs. To set parameters that are valid until you reboot the system, use t...

Appendix B Configuring the Quad FastEthernet Device Driver Parameters 31 ▼ To Specify the Device Instance for the ndd Utility 1. Check the /etc/path_to_inst file to identify the instance associated with a particular device. In the example above, the four SUNW,qfe@ x ,1 instances are from a Sun Quad ...

32 Sun Quad FastEthernet PCI Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • August 1997 Using the ndd Utility in Non-Interactive Mode This section describes how to modify and to display parameter values. ● To modify a parameter value, use the -set option. If you invoke the ndd utility with the -set option,...

Appendix B Configuring the Quad FastEthernet Device Driver Parameters 33 ● To list all the parameters supported by the qfe driver, type ndd /dev/qfe \? . (See TABLE B-1 through TABLE B-8 for parameter descriptions.) FIGURE B-1 Example of Listing All Parameters Supported by the qfe Driver # ndd /dev/...

34 Sun Quad FastEthernet PCI Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • August 1997 Setting Forced Mode This section describes how to set forced mode (not capable of auto-negotiation). ▼ To Select One Local Transceiver Capability and SettingForced Mode 1. Select one of the following capabilities: adv_1...

Appendix B Configuring the Quad FastEthernet Device Driver Parameters 35 Setting Parameters in the /etc/system File To configure the qfe driver parameters for all SUNW,qfe devices in the system so that the parameter variables are always effective (even after rebooting the system),enter the parameter...

36 Sun Quad FastEthernet PCI Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • August 1997 Here’s an example of setting parameters in a /etc/system file: ▼ Setting the ipg1 and ipg2 Parameters in the /etc/system File 1. Become superuser. 2. Add the following lines to the /etc/system file: 3. Save the /etc/sys...

Appendix B Configuring the Quad FastEthernet Device Driver Parameters 37 Setting ipg Driver Parameters Using a qfe.conf File 1. Obtain the hardware path names for the qfe devices in the device tree. Typically the path names and the associated instance numbers will be present in the /etc/path_to_inst...

39 A P P E N D I X D Running Diagnostics Tests This appendix describes how to test the Sun Quad FastEthernet PCI adapter with itsFCode PROM selftest . Note – To test the Sun Quad FastEthernet PCI adapter further, refer to the SunVTS User ’s Guide that shipped with your operating system. Using the Op...

40 Sun Quad FastEthernet PCI Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • August 1997 ▼ Running the Ethernet FCode Selftest Diagnostic To run the ethernet diagnostics, you must first bring the system to a stop at theOpenBoot prompt after issuing a reset. If you do not reset the system, the diagnostictest...

Appendix D Running Diagnostics Tests 41 6. Type the following to run the selftest using the test command on one of the adapters four Ethernet channels: The following tests are run when the test command is executed: ■ hme register ■ MAC internal loopback ■ External loopback ■ 100 Mbps PHY loopback ■ ...

42 Sun Quad FastEthernet PCI Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • August 1997 8. Set the auto-boot? configuration parameter to true. 9. Reset and reboot the system. ok setenv auto-boot? true ok reset-all

Index 43 Index A auto-negotiation, 17, 29, 34 B booting from network, 14reconfiguration, 9 C configuring qfe driver parameters, 23 D declaration of conformity, vdriver parameters, 24 driver_aliases file, 5 E editing /etc/hosts file, 11 /etc/system file, 15, 35 driver_aliases file, 5 hostname.qfe # f...

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