Sun Microsystems 802-1304-10 Product Note
Sun Microsystems 802-1304-10 Product Note

Sun Microsystems 802-1304-10 Product Note

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SunFastEthernet Adapter Product Note
Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation
2550 Garcia Avenue
Mountain View, CA 94043
U.S.A.
Part No.: 802-1304-10
Revision A, July 1994

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  • Page 1 SunFastEthernet Adapter Product Note Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation 2550 Garcia Avenue Mountain View, CA 94043 U.S.A. Part No.: 802-1304-10 Revision A, July 1994...
  • Page 2 Sun, the Sun logo, Sun Microsystems, Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation, Solaris, and SunFastEthernet are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the U.S. and certain other countries. UNIX is a registered trademark of Novell, Inc., in the United States and other countries; X/Open Company, Ltd., is the exclusive licensor of such trademark.
  • Page 3: Hardware Requirements

    Hardware Requirements Software Requirements Solaris 2.3 Hardware: 5/94 Solaris 2.3 Hardware: 8/94 or Later SunFastEthernet Adapter The following data is in addition to that detailed in the SunFastEthernet Adapter User Guide, P/N 801-6109-10. OpenBoot Prom (OBP) version 2.3 is the first OBP version that supports the SunFastEthernet Adapter.
  • Page 4 which automatically installs the driver SUNWbmac. For the “Entire Distribution”, “Programmer” and ”End User Support” clusters, the driver is installed only if SunFastEthernet Adapter hardware is installed in the system. Table 1 Solaris 2.3 Hardware: 8/94 CD Cluster Entire Distribution plus OEM Support Entire Distribution Programmer End User System Support...
  • Page 5 2. Use the ls command to list the directory contents. 3. Use the cd command and go to the directory containing your particular 4. Type the following line to get a listing for the minor device number for The resultant listing will have the following format: 5.
  • Page 6: Speed Selection

    2. Edit the name_to_major file by adding an entry for the be device. 3. Copy be driver to clients root partition as follows: Speed Selection If you receive the following messages after connecting to a 10 or 100Mbps network then more than likely the external hub and the SunFastEthernet are out of sync.
  • Page 7 To use the utility, type the following at the prompt: # /usr/sbin/be_speed beX <arguments> Wherein X is the SunFastEthernet Adapter card number and the arguments are: • auto (automatic speed selection) • 100 (forces 100 Mbps mode) • 10 (forces 10 Mbps mode) If no arguments are selected then the current mode (auto or forced) and speed (10 or 100Mbps) of the interface will be printed.
  • Page 8 SunFastEthernet Adapter—July 1994...

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