Chapter 2
Installing the Adapter
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Installing the Adapter With Dynamic
Reconfiguration
If you have a Sun Enterprise system that supports dynamic reconfiguration (DR),
you do not have to reboot your system after installing the adapter.
The process of adding and configuring an adapter with DR involves (1) connecting
the attachment point and (2) configuring its occupant. In most cases, the
cfgadm
(1M) command can perform both steps at once.
Note –
If you have a Sun Enterprise system that supports dynamic reconfiguration
(DR), refer to the Sun Enterprise Dynamic Reconfiguration User’s Guide and your
system’s documentation for further information about dynamic reconfiguration.
Using the Installation Script
The Sun Dual Gigabit Ethernet and Dual SCSI/P CD provides an 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 B 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 “Dual Gigabit Ethernet and Dual SCSI/P
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 pre-patched 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.
