Sun Microsystems X1150A manual Installing the Driver Software, Become superuser

C H A P T E R 2

Installing the Adapter

This chapter describes how to install the adapter in your system and how to verify that it has been installed correctly. This chapter contains the following sections:

■“Verifying Patches” on page 12

■“Installing the Driver Software” on page 9

■“Installing the Adapter Without Dynamic Reconfiguration” on page 14

■“To Verify the Installation” on page 16

■“Setting the local-mac-addressProperty” on page 19

■“Rebooting the System” on page 20

■“Installing the Adapter With Dynamic Reconfiguration” on page 21

Note –If you have a Sun Enterprise system that supports dynamic reconfiguration (DR), refer to the Sun Enterprise Dynamic Reconfiguration User’s Guide and your system’s documentation for further information about dynamic reconfiguration.

Installing the Driver Software

The Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Driver 1.0 Update 1 CD contains the driver software required to operate the adapter. The Solaris 8 10/01 operating environment and subsequent compatible releases include the Sun GigaSwift Ethernet driver software. Refer to the documentation that shipped with the Solaris Supplement CD-ROM for a listing of the available network drivers. Be sure to install the Sun GigaSwift Ethernet driver for your version of the Solaris operating environment.

1. Become superuser.

9