Re: Re: ce0: Cassini gigabit ether

From: aalinaser@cox.net
Date: Fri Jul 22 2005 - 13:34:08 EDT


Hello all,

One quick question. I found tons of information on the web about Sun GigaSwift cards, but no where it tells me how set the link_speed to 1000Mbits full duplex. Which parameter sets this?

TIA

 
>
> From: <aalinaser@cox.net>
> Date: 2005/07/21 Thu PM 01:54:24 EDT
> To: Graeme Burke <gburke@astrology.com>
> CC: sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org
> Subject: Re: Re: ce0: Cassini gigabit ether
>
> My Sincere thanks to all who responded. Please note the summary of feed backs and discovery;
>
> 1)ce type device refers to Sun Gigaswift Network adapter. It comes in copper and FC flavors.
>
> 2)the ce.conf has to be created by the administrator to force the settings at the boot time. It is created in "/platform/sun4u/kernel/drv/ce.conf"
>
> 3) "nnd -get" wont work, use "kstat -m ce -i 0" to get config info.
>
> 4)The user and install guide is avaiable on
> "http://www.sun.com/products/networking/ethernet/gigaswift/index.xml"
>
> Thanks
>
>
> >
> > From: Graeme Burke <gburke@astrology.com>
> > Date: 2005/07/21 Thu PM 01:19:25 EDT
> > To: aalinaser@cox.net
> > Subject: Re: ce0: Cassini gigabit ether
> >
> > aalinaser@cox.net wrote:
> > > Hello All,
> > >
> > > I have a SUN V480 with two SunGigaSwift Ethernet Copper ports on it. I cannot find the ce.conf file anywhere on the system. Even running the "ndd -get /dev/ce link_status" and etc gives me errors, in otherwords does not recognize ce device. How can I trouble shoot this.
> >
> >
> > > How can I find out exactly what driver version is running for this device and etc.
> >
> > This will tell you the version of the package.
> > # pkginfo -il SUNWcedx
> > or
> > # pkginfo -il SUNWced
> >
> > x is for 64 bit. If it's s10, there is just a SUNWced, which is 64 bit.
> >
> > Is the driver loaded into memory? Check:
> > # modinfo | grep ' ce '
> >
> > Note, this will tell you the version of the driver itself. If it's not
> > loaded, try to load it indirectly with ifconfig.
> >
> > Try to plumb the interface:
> > # ifconfig ce0 plumb
> >
> > You could also modload.
> >
> > The ce.conf is not created automagically. You need to create it if you so desire. Look
> > here:
> >
> > /platform/sun4u/kernel/drv/ce.conf
> >
> > Also, man ce.
> >
> > > #grep ce /etc/driver_aliases
> > > ce "pci108e,abba"
> > > ce "pci100b,35"
> > > usb_mid "usb,device"
> > >
> > > #grep ce /etc/path_to_inst
> > > "/pci@9,700000/usb@1,3/device@2" 0 "usb_mid"
> > > "/pci@9,700000/usb@1,3/device@2/keyboard@0" 0 "hid"
> > > "/pci@9,700000/usb@1,3/device@2/mouse@1" 1 "hid"
> > > "/pci@9,700000/network@2" 0 "ce"
> > > "/pci@9,600000/network@1" 1 "ce"
> >
> > This tell us that the driver was installed, at least one point in time, it
> > most likely needs to be loaded. Doing an ndd, might not trigger the load
> > of the driver.
> >
> > --graeme
> >
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