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Installing and Configuring the

ge

Device Driver

15

Note –

The “name” property in the

ge.conf

file should be the same value as the

“compatible” property. In this case, the value is

SUNW,sbus-gem

. See page 7 for

more information about the

.properties

file.

For Sun GigabitEthernet/P:

To identify a PCI device unambiguously in the

ge.conf

file, use the name, parent

name, and the unit-address for the device. Refer to the

pci

(4) man page for more

information about the PCI device specification.

In the first line of the previous example:

Name = pci108e,2bad

Parent =

/pci@4,4000

Unit-address =

4

In the second line in the previous example:

Name =

pci108e,2bad

Parent =

/pci@6,2000

Unit-address =

1

In the third line in the previous example:

Name =

pci108e,2bad

Parent =

/pci@4,2000

Unit-address =

1

To Set Parameters Using the

ge.conf

File on an SBus

adapter

1. Set the

ipg1

and

ipg2

parameters for the above devices in the

kernel/drv/ge.conf

file.

2. Save the

ge.conf

file.

3. Save and close all files and programs, and exit the windowing system.

4. If your system doesn’t support DR, reboot by typing the

init 6

command at the

superuser prompt.

name = “SUNW,sbus-gem” class = “sbus”

reg=0x2,0x100000,0x14,0x2,0x200000,0x9060 ipg1=20 ipg2=10 ;