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C H A P T E R

2

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.

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.

Once you have added this line to the file, you can safely install the adapter.

# grep 'pci_pci "pci1011,25"' /etc/driver_aliases

pci_pci "pci1011,25"