Preface

This book describes how to configure the dmfe (Fast Ethernet) device driver for the Davicom (R) DM9102A devices in the Netratrademark X1 and Sun Firetrademark V100 Servers.


How This Book Is Organized

Chapter 1 describes the dmfe device driver for the Davicom (R) DM9102A device .

Chapter 2 describes how to set the dmfe device driver parameter values temporarily by using the ndd utility or permanently by editing the dmfe.conf file.

Chapter 3 describes how to set parameters for the dmfe device to enable you to boot from the network if you have connected your Netra X1 or Sun Fire V100 server to an Ethernet hub that does not support auto-negotiation.

Appendix A lists the parameters for the dmfe device driver.

Appendix B describes the application programming interface for the dmfe driver.


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