Sun Microsystems 806-2989-10 manual Installing the Adapter, Installing the Driver Software

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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 is divided into the following sections:

■“Installing the Driver Software” on page 5

■“Installing the Adapter Without Dynamic Reconfiguration” on page 8

■“To Verify the Installation” on page 9

■“Setting the local-mac-addressProperty” on page 12

■“Rebooting the System” on page 13

■“Installing the Adapter With Dynamic Reconfiguration” on page 14

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 CD contains the driver software required to operate the adapter. Future revisions of the Solaris operating environment might contain 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.

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