Technical data

SunOS 5.5 Devices pcelx(7D)

NAME pcelx − 3COM EtherLink III PCMCIA Ethernet Adapter

SYNOPSIS pcelx@<socket>:pcelx<socket>

DESCRIPTION The pcelx driver supports the 3COM EtherLink III PCMCIA PC Card as a standard Eth-

ernet type of device conforming to the DLPI interface speciﬁcation. The driver supports

the hot-plugging of the PC Card.

The PPA (Physical Point of Attachment) is deﬁned by the socket number the card is

inserted in. This means that for IP use, the card should always be plugged into the same

socket that the network interface was initially brought up on or else a network

reconﬁguration should be done to take down the old interface and bring up the new one.

Both the 3C589 and 3C589B versions of the card are supported on the x86 architecture.

The 3C589B may be required on other platforms.

FILES /kernel/drv/pcelx pcelx driver

/dev/pcelx DLPI Style 2 device

/dev/pcelxn DLPI Style 1 device where:

n is the PCMCIA physical socket number.