Solaris Handbook for Sun Peripherals

To Add an Option Card

Shut down your system.

See "Shut Down the System"

Determine the address selection scheme of card.

In most cases, the card becomes addressed when you plug it in. The address will be based on the connector that it is plugged in to.

Note -
For more information, refer to the documentation that accompanies your hardware.

Set any jumpers or switches that require different settings.

For example, if your system has an SBus and if you are adding an Ethernet card, you may need to change one jumper on that card related to the Link Integrity Test.

Install the card.

For installation information, refer to the documentation that accompanies your hardware.

Turn the power on to the system and all the peripheral devices.

In most cases, this will cause the system to boot. If the /reconfigure file is present (as described in "To Prepare the System"" in Chapter 1), then the operating system will automatically initialize the appropriate device drivers for the new card. If the /reconfigure file does not exist, you can achieve the same effect by performing a boot -r. See Appendix B, Booting Your System" in the appendix for more information.

If you want to display a list of all the devices on your system, use the prtconf command as shown:

example# prtconf | grep -v not
System Configuration:  Sun Microsystems  sun4u
Memory size: 128 Megabytes
System Peripherals (Software Nodes):
SUNW,Ultra-5_10
    options, instance #0
    pci, instance #0
        pci, instance #0
            ebus, instance #0
                power, instance #0
                se, instance #0
                su, instance #0
                su, instance #1
                fdthree, instance #0
            network, instance #0
            ide, instance #0
                dad, instance #0
                sd, instance #2
        pci, instance #1
    SUNW,ffb, instance #0 (card installed here)
pseudo, instance #0