52 Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter Installation and User’s Guide •August 2004
■The path name before the last component is the parent name.
■The number after the final @character within quotes is the unit-address.
Toidentify a PCI device unambiguously in the ce.conf file, use the name, parent
name, and the unit-address for the device. Refer to the pci(4) man page for more
information about the PCI device specification.
In this example:
■parent ="/pci@8,600000"
■unit-address ="1"
2. Set the parameters for the above devices in the
/platform/sun4u/kernel/drv/ce.conf file.
In the following example, the adv_autoneg_cap and adv_1000fdx_cap
parameters areset for all Sun GigaSwift Ethernet devices. See the driver.conf(4)
man page for more information.
In the following example, the adv-autoneg-cap and adv-1000fdx-cap
parameters are set for a single instance of the Sun GigaSwift Ethernet device.
Note – If you omit the name=,parent=, and unit-address= definitions, the
settings become global to all Sun GigaSwift Ethernet instances.
3. Save the ce.conf file.
Usability Enhancements to the Driver
In older Ethernet device drivers, determining the link status for a driver required a
two-step process:
First, you had to set the instance:
adv-autoneg-cap=0 adv-1000fdx-cap=0;
name="pci100b,35" parent="/pci@8,600000" unit-address="1"
adv-autoneg-cap=0 adv-100hdx-cap=0 adv-100fdx-cap=1 adv-1000fdx-cap=0 adv-
10hdx-cap=0 adv-10fdx-cap=0 adv-1000hdx-cap=0 adv-100T4-cap=0;
#ndd -set /dev/ce instance 2