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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).

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

TABLE B-5

on page 27).

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 32.

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.

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

ndd

Utility in Interactive Mode” on

page 32.