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Setting forced mode, Auto-negotiation mode – Sun Microsystems Ethernet Device Driver none User Manual

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Platform Notes: The hme Fast Ethernet Device DriverMay 1996

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Setting Forced Mode

This section describes how to set forced mode (not capable of auto-
negotiation).

To select one of the five local transceiver capabilities and set
the mode to forced mode

1. Select one of the following capabilities:

adv_100T4_cap,

adv_100fdx_cap

,

adv_100hdx_cap

,

adv_10fdx_cap

, or

adv_10hdx_cap

, and set its value to

1

.

If you select more than one of the local transceiver capabilities, the driver
selects the one that is highest in the priority order (see the footnote from
Table 3-5 on page 13).

2. Set the local transceiver capabilities advertised by the hardware to forced

mode = 0, which is not capable of auto-negotiation:

adv_autoneg_cap 0

Use the

ndd

utility as described in “Using the ndd Utility in Interactive

Mode” on page 22.

Auto-Negotiation Mode

This section describes how to select at least one of the five local transceiver
capabilities and set the mode to auto-negotiation.

To set the mode to auto-negotiation

1. Select

at least one of the five capabilities (

adv_100T4_cap,

adv_100fdx_cap

,

adv_100hdx_cap

,

adv_10fdx_cap

,

adv_10hdx_cap

)

that you want to advertise to the remote system, and set its value to 1.

2. Set the local transceiver capabilities advertised by the hardware to 1, the

auto-negotiation setting:

adv_autoneg_cap 1

Use the

ndd

utility as described in “Using the ndd Utility in Interactive

Mode” on page 22.