Autonegotiation mode, To set autonegotiation to off (forced mode) – Sun Microsystems THE SUN 805-7945-10 User Manual

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Installing and Configuring the

Device Driver

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To list all the parameters supported by the

driver, type

ndd /dev/ge \?

(See

TABLE 1

through

TABLE 8

for parameter descriptions.)

Autonegotiation Mode

By default, autonegotiation is set to

. This means that the adapter will

communicate with its link partner to determine a compatible network speed, duplex
mode, and flow control capability.

If your network equipment does not support autonegotiation, or if you want to
specify your network speed, you can set autonegotiation to

off

on the

device.

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To Set Autonegotiation to Off (Forced Mode)

1. Select the following parameters:

adv_1000fdx_cap

adv_1000hdx_cap

adv_pauseTX

and

adv_pauseRX

, and set those values according to the user’s

manual that shipped with your link partner device (for example, switch). See

TABLE 6

for parameter values.

# ndd /dev/ge \?

? (read only)

link_status (read only)

link_speed (read only)

link_mode (read only)

ipg1 (read and write)

ipg2 (read and write)

instance (read and write)

lance_mode (read and write)

ipg0 (read and write)

adv_1000autoneg_cap (read and write)

adv_1000fdx_cap (read and write)

adv_1000hdx_cap (read and write)

adv_pauseTX (read and write)

adv_pauseRX (read and write)

1000autoneg_cap (read only)

1000fdx_cap (read only)

1000hdx_cap (read only)

asm_dir_cap (read only)

pause_cap (read only)

lp_1000autoneg_cap (read only)

lp_1000fdx_cap (read only)

lp_1000hdx_cap (read only)

lp_asm_dir_cap (read only)

lp_pause_cap (read only)