From: Larry Anta (lanta@ryerson.ca)
Date: Fri Nov 28 2003 - 11:48:01 EST
I guess I need a "Configuring the ce Device Driver for Complete Dolts"
manual.
Would someone please toss me a frickin bone here about how to configure the
two onboard ethernet interfaces that are integrated into a V480 (no ethernet
adapter is installed, just the RSC adapter in the RSC slot, which I'm not
concerned with at this point).
Solaris 8 (7/03)
OBP 4.10.7 2003/06/11 07:03
Patch 111883-14 is on
/: grep ce /etc/driver_aliases
usb_mid "usb,device"
ce "pci108e,abba"
ce "pci100b,35"
pcelx "pccard101,589"
pcelx "pccard101,562,0"
/: grep ce /etc/path_to_inst
"/pci@9,700000/network@2" 0 "ce"
"/pci@9,600000/network@1" 1 "ce"
/: cat /platform/sun4u/kernel/drv/ce.conf
# Following is all on one line:
adv-autoneg-cap=0 adv-10hdx-cap=0 adv-10fdx-cap=0 adv-100hdx-cap=0
adv-100fdx-cap=1 adv-1000hdx-cap=0 adv-1000fdx-cap=0 adv-100T4-cap=0;
This much works like a charm, disabling autonegotiation and forcing 100 FDX.
The problems start when I try to configure just ce0, rather than all ce's.
Ie. when I start using name=, parent=, and unit-address= parameters.
The Product Notes for the V480 (816-0905-14, p.9) recommend reading the
GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter Installation and User's Guide (816-1702-11) for
information on configuring the ONBOARD network interfaces, ie. for details
of ce.conf (even though I have no such adapter). Fine. Over to
816-1702-11. The section "Setting Parameters Using the ce.conf File" (pages
51-53) is an evil joke that give tantalizing clues about what might work.
The one example given (that uses the name=, parent=, and unit-address=
parameters) doesn't use the previous portions of that section in which the
terms name, parent, and unit address are illucidated. (Great time to switch
from the general to the specific, ughh.)
My first guess was that the name is pci108e,abba. When that didn't seem to
work I remembered that 816-1702-11 was about GigaSwift adapters. Maybe I
need pci100b,35 instead. No luck. But is it because I've got the
unit-address wrong? I'd been specifying "2" (because I'm trying to get ce0
to specify ce0). "2" seems to be right according to 816-1702-11, but
"docs.sun.com's 'Solaris 8 HW 7/03 on Sun Hardware Collection >> Platform
Notes: Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Device Driver >> Configuring Driver Parameters
>> Setting ce Driver Parameters'" says no, the unit address would be "9,7"
in my case. Hmm.
Then there is the issue of the parent. Page 52 of 816-1702-11 says the
parent in my case would be pci@9 while page 53 implies it would be
pci@9,70000 in my case.
I've tried many combinations of name/parent/unit-address and my ce0 comes up
HDX. When I leave out name/parent/unit-address (leaving just the ce.conf
file shown above), ce0 comes up FDX the way I want.
I have considered the ndd approach but prefer to have a working ce.conf file
since ndd commands for the ce driver in rcX.d scripts is not supported by
Sun (816-1702-11, page 51); nor are 'set' commands supported in /etc/system
(816-0905-14, page 9).
Is Sun just trying to sell more education to complement their poor technical
writing or am I just completely clueless? (Rhetorical question; please
don't answer.) Thanks!
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