FastEthernet PCI Adapter Installation & User's Guide
Features
This PCI adapter offers the following features:
Fully complies with the ANSI/IEEE std. 802.3 CSMA/CD physical layer
specification
Four 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 independent Ethernet channels run at either 10 Mbps or 100 Mbps
Supports half-duplex or full-duplex operation modes
Multiple 48-bit IEEE 802.3 style media access control (MAC) identifiers, one for
each channel
Link integrity LED for each channel
Hardware and Software Requirements
Before installing the adapter, make sure your system meets the following hardware
and software requirements:
TABLE 1–1 Hardware and Software Requirements
Requirements Hardware or Software
Supported Systems Sun
TM
Ultra
TM
systems, with an available PCI slot.
Supported Operating Environments Solaris 2.5.1 Hardware: 4/97, and later Solaris releases
OpenBoot
TM
PROM (OBP) Release 3.0 or later
Note - The information above is up-to-date as of the printing of this manual. Visit
Sun on the World Wide Web at http://www.sun.com/ for the latest information.
2 Sun Quad FastEthernet PCI Adapter Installation and User’s Guide ♦ Revision A, August 1997










