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iv Sun Quad FastEthernet PCI Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • August 1997

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Sun Quad FastEthernet PCI Adapter Installation User’s Guide Please Recycle Regulatory Compliance Statements DOC Class a Notice Avis DOC, Classe a EMC Page Contents Specifications Running Diagnostics Tests Page Preface How This Book Is Organized Unix Commands Related Documents Typographic Conventions Shell Prompts Sun Welcomes Your Comments Ordering Sun DocumentsTable P-1SunExpress Contact Information Product Overview 1Sun Quad FastEthernet PCI adapter Features 2Sun Quad FastEthernet PCI adapter Back Panel Checking the OpenBoot Prom Revision Level Displaying the OpenBoot Prom Revision LevelHardware and Software Requirements 1Hardware and Software RequirementsPage Installing the Adapter Using a text editor, add the following line to the end Installing the Adapter Verifying the Installation Ok show-devs Examining Network Activity Rebooting the System Perform a reconfiguration boot on the systemPage Installing the Driver Software Configuring the Driver SoftwareConfiguring the Host Files Etc/hosts file Reboot your system # cat /etc/hosts Booting From the Network At the ok prompt type Post-Installation Procedures Optional Configuring Driver ParametersIncreasing TCP/IP Performance As superuser root, type Forcing Network Speed Between 10 Mbps and 100 Mbps Type Auto-Negotiation Local-mac-address Property Physical Dimensions SpecificationsTable A-1Physical Dimensions Power Requirements Performance SpecificationsTable A-2Power Requirements Table A-3Performance Specifications Interface Signals Ethernet channelsPage Configuring the Quad FastEthernet Device Driver Parameters Internal Transceiver Driver Parameter Values and Definitions Qfe Driver Parameter, Status, and Descriptions Defining the Current Status Inter-Packet Gap ParametersTable B-1qfe Driver Parameter, Status, and Descriptions Table B-2Read-Only Parameters Defining the Current Status Ipg1 = 8 default at initialization Table B-5Operational Mode Parameters Operational Mode ParametersTable B-4Parameters Defining lancemode and ipg0 Defining the Number of Back-to-Back Packets to Transmit Reporting Transceiver CapabilitiesTable B-6Back-to-back Packet Transmission Capability Table B-7Read-Only Transceiver Capabilities Reporting the Link Partner Capabilities Table B-8Read-Only Link Partner Capabilities Setting qfe Driver Parameters Setting Parameters Using the ndd Utility To Specify the Device Instance for the ndd Utility Use the instance number to select the device Using the ndd Utility in Non-Interactive Mode To modify a parameter value, use the -setoption # ndd /dev/qfe \? Setting Forced Mode Setting Parameters in the /etc/system File Table B-9Setting Variables in the /etc/system File Setting Parameters Using the qfe.conf File Setting the ipg1 and ipg2 Parameters Setting ipg Driver Parameters Using a qfe.conf File Etc/pathtoinst file Set the ipg1 and ipg2 parameters for the above four devices Kernel/drv/qfe.conf file Running Diagnostics Tests Using the OpenBoot Prom FCode Selftest Running the Ethernet FCode Selftest Diagnostic Reset the systemShut down the system Type show-devsto display the list of devices Ok setenv diag-switch? false Set the auto-boot?configuration parameter to true Reset and reboot the system Index EditingEditing, 11 example Creating, 12 editing, 11 examples LEDs Watch-net-all output Page Ordering Sun Documents AIR Mail PAR Avion