Sun Microsystems 5945532 Operation & User’s Manual

Two LEDs are on the ExpressModule next to the Attention switch. One LED emits green light, the LED other emits amber light. Each light can be on, off, or blinking. TABLE 1-2 explains the meaning of these lights. Note – The Attention switch currently is not supported. TABLE 1-1 Indicato ...

Sun Microsystems 5945532 installed on your system. This chapter contains the following section: ■“Configuring the Network Host Files for Booting Over the Gigabit Ethernet Network for Linux Systems” on page 21 Note – To do a PXE boot (or netboot) on a dual-port ...

Driver Software This chapter explains how to install and remove the ixgbe driver on Linux and Microsoft Windows systems. This chapter contains the following sections: ■“Downloading and Installing the Driver on a Linux Platform” on page 7 ■“Downloading and Installing the Driver on a Microsoft Windows ...

Sun Microsystems 5945532 where xxx.xxx.xx.xxx = the IP address of the interface. 3. Add the VLAN instance (VID). For example: where eth6 is the interface and 5 is the VID. Note – In Linux systems, you can use any single digit as the VID. 4. Configure the ixgbe VLAN (eth2 in this example): wher ...

Sun Microsystems 5945532 4. Plug the Ethernet cable into the card port. 5. Power on the system. 6. Press the F2 key or the Control-E keys to go to the BIOS. 7. Check and ensure that the boot order of the network devices is higher than the hard drive. 8. Press the F10 key to save the boot configuration changes a ...

Sun Microsystems 5945532 2. Holding the optical transceiver by the edges, align the transceiver with the slot in the ExpressModule and slide the transceiver into the opening. 3. Applying even pressure at both corners of the transceiver, push the transceiver until it is firmly seated in the slot. 4. Push the han ...

Sun Microsystems 5945532 4. Select this option: Download drivers and software 5. Select Linux as the operating system. 6. Locate the following driver and select Download: Network Adapter Driver for 10 GbE PCI-E Based Network Connections for Linux 7. Review and accept the software license agreement. 8. Select thi ...

Sun Microsystems 5945532 Your Sun product is marked to indicate its compliance class: • Federal Communications Commission (FCC) — USA • Industry Canada Equipment Standard for Digital Equipment (ICES-003) — Canada • Voluntary Control Council for Interference (VCCI) — Japan • Bureau of Standards Metrology and Inspection (BSMI) — Tai ...

Sun Microsystems 5945532 9 6. Verify that the ixgbe driver has been successfully installed with this lsmod command: The output should be similar to the following: 7. Check the ixgbe driver version with this modinfo command: For example, the output might be the following: ▼To Remove the Driver From a Linux Platform ● ...

Sun Microsystems 5945532 This chapter describes how to install the ExpressModule in your system and verify that it is recognized by the operating system. This chapter contains the following sections: ■“Installing an Optical Transceiver” on page 13 ■“Installing the ExpressModule” on page 16 ■“Verifying the Installation” on p ...

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