Fast Ethernet PCI Adapter Installation and User's Guide

Appendix B Configuring the Quad FastEthernet Device Driver Parameters 27
TABLE B-4 defines the lance_mode and ipg0 parameters.
Operational Mode Parameters
TABLE B-5 describes the operational mode parameters and their default values.
TABLE B-4 Parameters Defining lance_mode and ipg0
Parameter Values Description
lance_mode 0
1
lance_mode disabled
lance_mode enabled (default)
ipg0 0-31
1
1. The default value is 16 nibble-times, which is 6.4 microseconds for 10 Mbps and 0.64 microseconds
for 100 Mbps.
Additional IPG before transmitting a packet
(after receiving a packet)
TABLE B-5 Operational Mode Parameters
Parameter Values Description
adv_autoneg_cap
0
1
Local transceiver capability advertised by the hardware
= Forced mode
= Auto-negotiation (default)
adv_100fdx_cap
1
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 environments)
= 100Mbit/sec full-duplex capable (default in the Solaris 2.6
software environment)
adv_100hdx_cap
1
0
1
Local transceiver capability advertised by the hardware;
read/write parameter
= Not 100Mbit/sec half-duplex capable
= 100Mbit/sec half-duplex capable (default)
adv_10fdx_cap
1
0
1
Local transceiver capability advertised by the hardware;
read/write parameter
= Not 10Mbit/sec full-duplex capable (default)
= 10Mbit/sec full-duplex capable
adv_10hdx_cap
1
1. The priority (in descending order) for these parameters is: adv_100fdx_cap, adv_100hdx_cap, adv_10fdx_cap, and
adv_10hdx_cap.
0
1
Local transceiver capability advertised by the hardware;
read/write parameter
= Not 10Mbit/sec half-duplex capable
= 10Mbit/sec half-duplex capable (default)