beautypg.com

Installing sunfastethernet – Sun Microsystems 2.0 User Manual

Page 35

background image

4-1

Installing SunFastEthernet
Adapter 2.1 Software
On Solaris 1.1.1 and 1.1.2 Systems

4

This chapter describes the SunFastEthernet Adapter installation requirements
for systems running Solaris 1.1.1 and 1.1.2 software versions only (SunOS
4.1.3_U1 and 4.1.4).

There is a restriction of 32 SunFastEthernet Adapter cards that can be installed
in one system. The name of the SunFastEthernet interface is

hme

.

After installing the SunFastEthernet Adapter (see Chapter 2, “Installing the
Adapter”), you can install the software that is located on the CD-ROM that
came with your adapter.

If you will be running the software on a diskless workstation, install the
product software on the boot server for that diskless machine, see Section 4.3,
“Setting Up Diskless Clients,” on page 4-12.
Section 4.2, “Installing from the
CD-ROM,”
covers installation from a CD-ROM.

Note – The SunFastEthernet interface will not function in a network that uses
Ethernet trailers.