Preface

This book describes how to configure the qfe driver for the SBus or PCI-bus based Sun Ultra workstations, Sun Enterprise servers, the SunSwift SBus Adapter, the SunFastEthernet Adapter 2.0, and the SunFastEthernet PCI Adapter.

Note that the 64-bit version of the Solaris operating environment uses the directory /kernel/drv/sparcv9 . In this document and others, when /kernel/drv is mentioned, the /kernel/drv/sparcv9 directory also applies.

How This Book Is Organized

Chapter 1 describes the hardware that uses the qfe driver.

Chapter 2 describes how to configure the SUNW,qfe device driver for your system.

Chapter 3 lists the values for each of the qfe driver parameters.

Chapter 4 describes how to set the parameters for the qfe driver.

Appendix A describes the auto-negotiation process.

Appendix B lists the SUNW,qfe device driver parameters.

Typographic Conventions

Typeface or Symbol	Meaning	Examples
`AaBbCc123`	The names of commands, files, and directories; on-screen computer output	Edit your `.login` file. Use `ls -a` to list all files. `% You have mail` .
`AaBbCc123`	What you type, when contrasted with on-screen computer output	`%` `su` `Password:`
AaBbCc123	Book titles, new words or terms, words to be emphasized	Read Chapter 6 in the User's Guide . These are called class options. You must be superuser to do this.
	Command-line variable; replace with a real name or value	To delete a file, type `rm` filename .

Shell Prompts

Shell	Prompt
C shell	machine_name `%`
C shell superuser	machine_name `#`
Bourne shell and Korn shell	`$`
Bourne shell and Korn shell superuser	`#`