Setting forced mode, Auto-negotiation mode, To set the mode to auto-negotiation – Sun Microsystems Sun Quad User Manual
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Sun Quad FastEthernet PCI Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • August 1997
Setting Forced Mode
This section describes how to set forced mode (not capable of auto-negotiation).
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To Select One Local Transceiver Capability and Setting
Forced Mode
1. Select one of the following capabilities:
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
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
Utility in Interactive Mode” on
Auto-Negotiation Mode
This section describes how to select at least one of the four local transceiver
capabilities and set the mode to auto-negotiation.
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To Set the Mode to Auto-Negotiation
1. Select at least one of the five capabilities (
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