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Features, Hardware and software requirements – Sun Microsystems 805-1797-10 User Manual

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Features

This PCI adapter offers the following features:

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Fully complies with the ANSI/IEEE std. 802.3 CSMA/CD physical layer
specification

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Four Switchable 10BASE-T/100BASE-TX Ethernet channels with auto negotiation.
Conforms to IEEE 802.3u Ethernet standard

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Provides operations of up to 100 meters of twisted-pair without use of repeaters

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Four independent Ethernet channels run at either 10 Mbps or 100 Mbps

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Supports half-duplex or full-duplex operation modes

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Multiple 48-bit IEEE 802.3 style media access control (MAC) identifiers, one for
each channel

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Link integrity LED for each channel

Hardware and Software Requirements

Before installing the adapter, make sure your system meets the following hardware
and software requirements:

TABLE 1–1

Hardware and Software Requirements

Requirements

Hardware or Software

Supported Systems

Sun

TM

Ultra

TM

systems, with an available PCI slot.

Supported Operating Environments

Solaris 2.5.1 Hardware: 4/97, and later Solaris releases

OpenBoot

TM

PROM (OBP)

Release 3.0 or later

Note -

The information above is up-to-date as of the printing of this manual. Visit

Sun on the World Wide Web at

http://www.sun.com/

for the latest information.

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Sun Quad FastEthernet PCI Adapter Installation and User’s Guide

Revision A, August 1997