Bedienungsanleitung Sun Microsystems Ethernet PCI Adapter

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Sun FastEthernet PCI
Adapter Product Note
A Sun Microsystems, Inc. Business
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Part No.: 805-2715-10
Revision A, August 1997

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Copyright 1997 Sun Microsystems, Inc. 2550 Garcia Avenue, Mountain View, California 94043-1100 U.S.A. All rights reserved. This product or document is protected by copyright and distributed under licenses restricting its use, copying, distribution, and decompilation. No part of this product or document may be reproduced in any form by any means without prior written authorization of Sun and its licensors, if any. Third-party software, including font technology, is copyrighted and licensed from S

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Sun FastEthernet PCI Adapter Product Note This document contains the late-breaking news and documentation updates for the Sun™ FastEthernet™ PCI adapter. Replacing a SunSwift PCI Adapter With a Sun FastEthernet PCI Adapter in the Same PCI Slot Your system will encounter network problems if you replace a SunSwift™ PCI adapter with a Sun FastEthernet PCI adapter, or if you replace a Sun FastEthernet PCI adapter with a SunSwift PCI adapter, in the same PCI slot. To avoid these problems, you must re

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▼ To Replace the SunSwift PCI Adapter With 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 SunSwift PCI adapter with the Sun FastEthernet PCI adapter. 3. Close the system unit. 4. Power on the system, and when the OpenBoot PROM’s banner is displayed, press the Stop-A keys to interrupt the boot process and to di

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6. Perform a reconfiguration boot on your system. ok boot -r 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 file for hme devices. # grep hme /etc/path_to_inst "/pci@1f,4000/network@1,1" 0 "hme" (On-boardhme interface) "/pci@1f,4000/pci@2/SUNW,hme@0,1" 1 "hme" (SunSwift PCIhme interface) "/pci@1f,4000/SUNW,hme@2,1" 2 "hme" (Sun FastEthernet PCIhme interface) In the example above, the network@1,1 instance is the

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▼ To Replace the Sun FastEthernet PCI Adapter With 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 Sun FastEthernet PCI adapter with the SunSwift PCI adapter. 3. Close the system unit. 4. Power on the system, and when the OpenBoot PROM’s banner is displayed, press the Stop-A keys to interrupt the boot process and to di

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7. At the command line, use the grep command to search the /etc/path_to_inst file for hme devices. # grep hme /etc/path_to_inst "/pci@1f,4000/network@1,1" 0 "hme" (On-boardhme interface) "/pci@1f,4000/SUNW,hme@2,1" 1 "hme" (Sun FastEthernet PCIhme interface) "/pci@1f,4000/pci@2/SUNW,hme@0,1" 2 "hme" (SunSwift PCIhme interface) 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

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Using thetestnet Command on an Adapter With an External Transceiver If your adapter is connected to an external transceiver, you will see incorrect error messages when using the OpenBoot PROM (OBP) test net command. Although the test net command will pass the first time it is used, it will fail on subsequent tests, even though the Ethernet interface is functional and can be used. You can avoid seeing these false test failures by using the OBP reset-all command between testing the adapter with te

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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 fixes bug 1252776 and resolves the problems with MII-AUI transceivers in full-duplex mode on dumb 10Base-T hubs. Sun FastEthernet PCI Adapter Product Note 7

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