3Com 3C996B-T manual Solaris Driver Setup, Driver Installation, Uninstalling the Driver

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Solaris Driver Setup

The Solaris Release 8 driver is released in two formats:

1BRCMbcme.pkg (datastream format)

2BRCMbcme.tar.Z (compressed and TAR file system format)

Driver Installation

To install the Solaris driver:

1Change to the directory in which BRCMbcme.pkg resides.

2Perform one of the following two substeps:

a pkgadd -d BRCMbcme.pkg or

b Copy BRCMbcme.tar.Z to /tmp cd /tmp

uncompress BRCMbcme.tar pkgadd -d /tmp

3Execute prtconf to determine the instance number of the NIC.

4ifconfig bcme[instance_number] plumb

5ifconfig bcme[instance_number] ip_address netmask…

To make these changes permanent:

1Using a text editor, create a file named hostname.bcme[instance_number] in the / etc directory.

2Add the IP address of the interface of this file, then save and exit.

3Add a proper subnet mask to the file /etc/netmasks.

Uninstalling the Driver

To uninstall the Solaris driver:

1ifconfig bcme[instance_number] down

2ifconfig bcme[instance_number] unplumb

3pkgrm BRCMbcme

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