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Installing and Configuring the

Device Driver

2. Use the

grep

command to search the

/etc/path_to_inst

file for

instances.

For Sun GigabitEthernet/P:

For Sun GigabitEthernet/S:

In these examples, the

instance is for the first GigabitEthernet adapter installed in

each system.

3. Set up each

hostname.ge

num file to correspond with each

device in the

path_to_inst

file.

The following example shows the

/etc/hostname.ge

num file required for a

system that has a

interface with the host name

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4. Set up the

adapter using the

ifconfig

command, where ip_address is the

system IP address of the machine that will use the adapter without first rebooting.

Note –

After installing the software, refer to the Sun GigabitEthernet/S 2.0 Adapter

Installation and User’s Guide or the Sun GigabitEthernet/P 2.0 Adapter Installation and
User’s Guide for further information about how to configure the software.

# grep ge /etc/path_to_inst

“/pci@1f,4000/pci@1/network@1” 1 “ge”

# grep ge /etc/path_to_inst

“/sbus@1f,0/network@1,100000” 1 “ge”

# cat /etc/hostname.ge1

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# ifconfig ge0 plumb

# ifconfig ge0

ip_address