Sun Microsystems GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter Network Card User Manual


 
Appendix B Using the Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Driver in Solaris 9 x86 Operating Systems 81
Energy Star® support
Features Not Currently Supported
The following features are not currently supported for the Sun GigaSwift Ethernet
driver software in the Solaris 9 x86 Operating System.
Dynamic reconfiguration (DR) and redundancy/failover support
Diskless client
Installing the Solaris Operating System over this adapter
Using this adapter as the primary boot device
Setting the local-mac-address? variable
Jumbo-frame mode
Sun Trunking
User-executable self-test using OpenBoot PROM
SunVTS diagnostic tool
Using the Installation Script
The Sun GigaSwift Ethernet CD provides automated installation for the GigaSwift
Ethernet driver software. In most cases, you can use the following procedure and
execute the installation script. If you have any problems, see Appendix A for manual
installation procedures.
When you have executed the script, select the interface card that is installed on your
system. For this product, select the Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter.
The script first checks to ensure that the software driver package has already been
installed. If the package is installed, the script verifies the patch level and updates
the driver with the updated patch if necessary. If the packages are not installed on
Solaris 8 or 9 software, the installation script installs the latest prepatched packages.
If the system does not require updating because the patch level is at or beyond the
current install version, the script exits with an appropriate message.
To Install the Software Using the Installation
Script
1. At the system console, become superuser (root).