Fast Ethernet PCI Adapter Installation and User's Guide
16 Sun Quad FastEthernet PCI Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • August 1997
Forcing Network Speed Between 10 Mbps and 100
Mbps
1. At the ok prompt, use the show-devs command to list the system devices.
You should see the full path names of the qfe devices, similar to the example below:
2. Type:
3. Type the following, pressing the Return key at the end of line 0:
Note – If you already have commands in NRAM, append these lines to the end of
the file.
4. Press the Control-C keys 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 speed to
100 Mbps, replace 10 with 100.
5. At the ok prompt type:
6. Reboot your system.
See Appendix C, “Configuring the Quad FastEthernet Device Driver Parameters,”
for more information on forcing network speed.
/pci@1f,2000/pci@2/SUNW,qfe@0,1
/pci@1f,2000/pci@2/SUNW,qfe@1,1
/pci@1f,2000/pci@2/SUNW,qfe@2,1
/pci@1f,2000/pci@2/SUNW,qfe@3,1
ok nvedit
0: probe-all install-console banner
1: apply transfer-speed=10 (full path name of a qfe device)
ok nvstore
ok setenv use-nvramrc? true