Sun Microsystems Ethernet PCI Adapter manual

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    901 San Antonio Road Palo Alto, California 94303 USA 415 960-1300 fax 415 969-9131 A Sun Microsystems, Inc. Business Sun ™ FastEthernet PCI Adapter Pr oduct Note Part No.: 805-2715-10 Revision A, August 1997[...]

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    Please Recycle Copyright 1997 Sun Microsystems, Inc. 2550 Gar cia A venue, Mountain V iew , California 94043-1 100 U.S.A. All rights reserved. This product or document is pr otected by copyright and distributed under licenses restricting its use, copying, distribution, and decompilation. No part of this product or document may be r eproduced in any[...]

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    1 Sun FastEthernet PCI Adapter Pr oduct Note This document contains the late-breaking news and documentation updates for the Sun™ FastEthernet™ PCI adapter . Replacing a SunSwift PCI Adapter W ith a Sun FastEthernet PCI Adapter in the Same PCI Slot Y our system will encounter network problems if you replace a SunSwift™ PCI adapter with a Sun [...]

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    2 Sun F astEthernet PCI Adapter Product Note • A ugust 1997 ▼ T o Replace the SunSwift PCI Adapter W ith a Sun FastEthernet PCI Adapter in the Same PCI Slot Note – Refer to your system’s installation or service manual for detailed instructions for the following three steps. 1. Power off your system and open the system unit. 2. Replace the S[...]

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    Sun F astEthernet PCI Adapter Product Note 3 6. Perform a reconf iguration boot on your system. After rebooting your system, login as super -user (root). 7. At the command line, use the grep command to search the /etc/path_to_inst f ile for hme devices. In the example above, the network@1,1 instance is the on-board FastEthernet device, the old SUNW[...]

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    4 Sun F astEthernet PCI Adapter Product Note • A ugust 1997 ▼ T o Replace the Sun FastEthernet PCI Adapter W ith a SunSwift PCI Adapter in the Same PCI Slot Note – Refer to your system’s installation or service manual for detailed instructions for the following three steps. 1. Power off your system and open the system unit. 2. Replace the S[...]

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    Sun F astEthernet PCI Adapter Product Note 5 7. At the command line, use the grep command to search the /etc/path_to_inst f ile for hme devices. In the example above, the network@1,1 instance is the on-board FastEthernet device, the old SUNW,hme@2,1 instance is for the previous Sun FastEthernet PCI adapter , and the new SUNW,hme@0,1 instance is for[...]

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    6 Sun F astEthernet PCI Adapter Product Note • A ugust 1997 Using the test net Command on an Adapter W ith an External T ransceiver If your adapter is connected to an external transceiver , you will see incorr ect error messages when using the OpenBoot PROM (OBP) test net command. Although the test net command will pass the first time it is used,[...]

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    Sun F astEthernet PCI Adapter Product Note 7 Autonegotiation Autonegotiation is broken (10Mbps) in the hme driver . Refer to bug id. 4064879 for more information. Patch 104212-06 fixes bug 4064879. Ultra 170E In the Ultra 170E, an MII-AUI transceiver hangs the network in 10Base-T mode. Refer to bug id. 1252776 for more information. Patch 10412-04 f[...]

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    8 Sun F astEthernet PCI Adapter Product Note • A ugust 1997[...]