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- Page 1 FastEthernet PCI ™ Adapter Product Note A Sun Microsystems, Inc. Business 901 San Antonio Road Palo Alto, California 94303 USA 415 960-1300 fax 415 969-9131 Part No.: 805-2715-10 Revision A, August 1997...
- Page 2 Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, AnswerBook, SunDocs, FastEthernet, SunSwift, and Solaris are trademarks, registered trademarks, or service marks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. All SPARC trademarks are used under license and are trademarks or registered trademarks of SPARC International, Inc.
- Page 3 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.
- Page 4 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.
- Page 5 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"...
- Page 6 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.
- Page 7 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" "/pci@1f,4000/SUNW,hme@2,1" 1 "hme" "/pci@1f,4000/pci@2/SUNW,hme@0,1" 2 "hme" 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 the SunSwift PCI adapter.
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Page 8: Known Problems
Using the test net 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. -
Page 9: Auto-Negotiation
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. - Page 10 Sun FastEthernet PCI Adapter Product Note • August 1997...
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