Installing the adapter, Adding an entry to the driver_aliases file – Sun Microsystems 805-1797-10 User Manual
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CHAPTER
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Installing the Adapter
This chapter tells you how to install the Sun Quad FastEthernet PCI adapter in your
system and how to verify that it has been installed correctly.
Adding an Entry to the
driver_aliases
File
If your system is running the Solaris 2.5.1 Hardware: 4/97 operating environment,
you will need to add an entry to the
/etc/driver_aliases
file before installing
the Sun Quad FastEthernet PCI adapter. In future operating system releases, you will
not need to edit this file.
1. Check the
/etc/driver_aliases
file for the line required by the adapter.
# grep ’pci_pci "pci1011,25"’ /etc/driver_aliases
If this line already exists in the
driver_aliases
file, you can proceed with the
adapter installation, which is described in the next section. Otherwise, you will
need to add this line to the file before installing the adapter.
2. Using a text editor, add the following line to the end of the
/etc/driver_aliases
file.
pci_pci "pci1011,25"
Once you have added this line to the file, you can safely install the adapter.
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