Sun Microsystems Sun Quad, User Manual

Page 1: ...ain View CA 94043 USA 415 960 1300 fax 415 969 9131 A Sun Microsystems Inc Business Sun Quad FastEthernet PCI Adapter Installation and User s Guide Part No 805 1797 10 Revision A August 1997 Sun Micro...

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Page 7: ...Adapter 5 Adding an Entry to the driver_aliases File 5 Installing the Adapter 6 Verifying the Installation 7 Examining Network Activity 8 Rebooting the System 9 3 Configuring the Driver Software 11 I...

Page 8: ...ent Status 25 Inter Packet Gap Parameters 25 Defining an Additional Delay Before Transmitting a Packet Using lance_mode and ipg0 26 Operational Mode Parameters 27 Defining the Number of Back to Back P...

Page 9: ...g Parameters Using the qfe conf File 36 Setting ipg Driver Parameters Using a qfe conf File 37 D Running Diagnostics Tests 39 Using the OpenBoot PROM FCode Selftest 39 Running the Ethernet FCode Selft...

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Page 11: ...un Quad FastEthernet PCI adapter Chapter 2 Installing the Adapter tells you how to install the Sun Quad FastEthernet PCI adapter into your system Chapter 3 Configuring the Driver Software describes ho...

Page 12: ...you might need to use references for includes Shutting down the system Booting the system Configuring devices Other basic software procedures See one or more of the following Solaris 2 x Handbook for...

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Page 15: ...d FastEthernet PCI adapter contains four fully buffered twisted pair Ethernet ports RJ 45 providing four switchable 10BASE T 100BASE TX channels on a PCI adapter FIGURE 1 1 Sun Quad FastEthernet PCI a...

Page 16: ...r Switchable 10BASE T 100BASE TX Ethernet channels with auto negotiation Conforms to IEEE 802 3u Ethernet standard Provides operations of up to 100 meters of twisted pair without use of repeaters Four...

Page 17: ...Level You can use the OpenBoot command version to display your system s OpenBoot PROM revision level Displaying the OpenBoot PROM Revision Level At the ok prompt type version to check your system s O...

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Page 19: ...t PCI adapter In future operating system releases you will not need to edit this file 1 Check the etc driver_aliases file for the line required by the adapter If this line already exists in the driver...

Page 20: ...sert the Sun Quad FastEthernet PCI adapter 5 Holding the PCI adapter by the edges align the adapter edge connector with the PCI slot Slide the adapter face plate into the small slot at the end of the...

Page 21: ...et to the ok prompt 2 Use the show devs command to list the system devices You should see lines in the list of devices similar to the example below specific to the Sun Quad FastEthernet PCI adapter Th...

Page 22: ...apter s interfaces the watch net all command may also test other network devices on the system Note The network speed is the same as the speed of the network that your system is connected See the sect...

Page 23: ...ined the network activity perform a reconfiguration boot on your system so the operating environment can recognize the Sun Quad FastEthernet PCI adapter Perform a reconfiguration boot on the system Re...

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Page 25: ...s as described in the CD insert Future revisions of the Sun Quad FastEthernet software will also work with your adapter Before you can use the four channels of the adapter you will need to create and...

Page 26: ...hostname qfe num files for Sun Quad FastEthernet PCI adapter channels you plan to leave unused The etc hostname qfe num file must contain the hostname for the appropriate network interface The host n...

Page 27: ...reate an appropriate entry in the etc hosts file for each active qfe channel Using the example in Step 1 you will have 4 Reboot your system cat etc hostname hme0 zardoz cat etc hostname qfe4 zardoz 11...

Page 28: ...the ok prompt type The show devs command lists the system devices You should see the full path name of the qfe devices similar to the example below Note You need to select only one of these qfe devic...

Page 29: ...qfe devices in the system by entering the parameter variables in the etc system file Set a parameter on a per device basis by creating the qfe conf file in the kernel drv directory Use the ndd utilit...

Page 30: ...s after typing full path name of a qfe device You will need to perform Steps 2 to 4 to set the network speed for each qfe channel Note In the above example the speed is forced to 10 Mbps To force the...

Page 31: ...tner at the other end of the link a hub switch or another network interface card NIC in a host system If the Link Partner also supports auto negotiation it will advertise its capabilities over the lin...

Page 32: ...wide MAC address In such cases the system wide MAC address applies to all network interfaces on the system The device driver or any other adapter utility can use the network device s MAC address loca...

Page 33: ...Physical Dimensions TABLE A 1 Physical Dimensions Assembly Dimension Measurement Length 7 395 in 186 06 mm Width 4 759 in 120 88 mm Height Primary component side 0 570 in 14 48 mm Back side 0 105 in...

Page 34: ...per channel Host Interface 256 pin PBGA PCI to PCI bridge with a 64 bit primary and 32 bit secondary interface Operates transparently in either 64 bit or 32 bit slots via a PCI specific Universal 64 b...

Page 35: ...1 Pin Descriptions for the 32 Pin RJ 45 Connectors Channels 0 3 Description CH0 CH1 CH2 CH3 TD 1 9 17 25 TD 2 10 18 26 RD 3 11 19 27 Not Used 4 12 20 28 Not Used 5 13 21 29 RD 6 14 22 30 Not Used 7 1...

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Page 37: ...and Expansion PFEX ASIC and an internal transceiver The driver automatically sets the link speed to 10 or 100 Mbps and conforms to the 100BASE T IEEE 802 3u Ethernet standard The PFEX ASIC provides th...

Page 38: ...l mode parameter pace_size Read and write Operational mode parameter adv_autoneg_cap Read and write Operational mode parameter adv_100fdx_cap Read and write Operational mode parameter adv_100hdx_cap R...

Page 39: ...l is 10 Mbps When the link speed is 100 Mbps the total IPG is 0 96 microseconds lp_10fdx_cap Read only Link partner capability lp_10hdx_cap Read only Link partner capability instance Read and write De...

Page 40: ...packet This delay set by the ipg0 parameter is in addition to the delay set by the ipg1 and ipg2 parameters The additional delay set by ipg0 helps to reduce collisions Systems that have lance_mode en...

Page 41: ...egotiation default adv_100fdx_cap1 0 1 Local transceiver capability advertised by the hardware read write parameter Not 100Mbit sec full duplex capable default in the Solaris 2 5 and 2 5 1 software en...

Page 42: ...kets transmitted at one time No limit to the number of back to back packets that can be transmitted default TABLE B 7 Read Only Transceiver Capabilities Parameter Values Description autoneg_cap 0 1 Lo...

Page 43: ...lp_autoneg_cap is 1 then the speed and mode information is displayed when you use auto negotiation and get the link partner capabilities TABLE B 8 Read Only Link Partner Capabilities Parameter Values...

Page 44: ...drv qfe conf file and add parameter values to the this file when you need to set a particular parameter for a device in the system Setting Parameters Using the ndd Utility Use the ndd utility to confi...

Page 45: ...vice remains selected until you change the selection Non Interactive and Interactive Modes You can use the ndd utility in two modes Non interactive Interactive In non interactive mode you invoke the u...

Page 46: ...the parameter name and omit the value When you omit the set option a query operation is assumed and the utility queries the named driver instance retrieves the value associated with the specified para...

Page 47: ...ad only link_mode read only ipg1 read and write ipg2 read and write use_int_xcvr read and write pace_size read and write adv_autoneg_cap read and write adv_100fdx_cap read and write adv_100hdx_cap rea...

Page 48: ...pabilities advertised by the hardware to forced mode 0 which is not capable of auto negotiation adv_autoneg_cap 0 Use the ndd utility as described in Using the ndd Utility in Interactive Mode on page...

Page 49: ...rating system kernel TABLE B 9 lists the variables you can set in the etc system file These parameter values described in Driver Parameter Values and Definitions on page 24 are applicable to all SUNW...

Page 50: ...specify the properties described in the section Setting Parameters in the etc system File on a per device basis by creating a qfe conf file in the kernel drv directory The properties set in the qfe c...

Page 51: ...the device name The path name before the last component is the parent name The comma separated numbers after the character at the end represent the device and function numbers which are together refe...

Page 52: ...e above four devices in the kernel drv qfe conf file 3 Save the qfe conf file 4 Save and close all files and programs and exit the windowing system 5 Halt and reboot the system by typing the init 6 co...

Page 53: ...not boot You can invoke the FCode selftest diagnostics by using the OpenBoot user interface test or test all commands If you encounter an error while running diagnostics appropriate messages will be d...

Page 54: ...procedures described in Solaris 2 x Handbook for SMCC Peripherals 2 At the ok prompt set the auto boot configuration variable to false 3 Reset the system 4 Type show devs to display the list of device...

Page 55: ...wing error messages Note To test other channels of the adapter you will need to execute the test command separately on each channel 7 After testing the adapter type the following to return the OpenBoo...

Page 56: ...42 Sun Quad FastEthernet PCI Adapter Installation and User s Guide August 1997 8 Set the auto boot configuration parameter to true 9 Reset and reboot the system ok setenv auto boot true ok reset all...

Page 57: ...name qfe files 11 qfe conf file 15 36 etc hosts file editing 11 example 13 etc system file setting parameters 35 Ethernet channels 2 12 21 examining network activity 8 F forcing network speed 16 27 34...

Page 58: ...27 34 nibble time delay 26 O OpenBoot PROM displaying revision level 3 requirements 3 selftest diagnostics 39 operation mode full duplex 17 half duplex 17 ordering Sun documentation xiv P parameters s...

Page 59: ...1 qfe driver parameters 30 editing driver_aliases file 5 installation 11 lance_mode 26 local mac address property 18 qfe driver parameters 24 requirements 3 specifications performance 20 physical dime...

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