Setting Up a Board

This chapter describes how to configure a board using the Solaris software environment.

This chapter contains the following information:

*Requirements* you must perform	*page 53*
*Adding a Board* to your system	*page 54*

Requirements

Before you start to configure the operating environment for a new board, you must:

Install the Solaris software
Shut down the system and peripherals that are already connected, as described in "Shutting Down the System" on page 3

Note - If you did not follow the procedures in "Shutting Down the System" on page 3, the operating system may not recognize the new board.

Adding a Board

Shut down your system.
Tip - See "Shutting Down the System" on page 3.
Determine the address selection scheme of the system and board.
In many cases jumpers and switches on a board are preset appropriately in the factory.
Tip - For more information, refer to the documentation that accompanies your hardware. For information on how to select device addresses, go to Chapter 6, "Selecting Addresses."
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 board.
For installation information, refer to the documentation that accompanies your hardware.
Turn on the power to all external peripheral devices and then the system.
The system automatically boots and configures the new board.

If you want to display a list of all the devices on your system, use the show-devs OpenBoot command by typing show-devs at the ok prompt.


  ok show-devs  
  /fd@1,f7200000  
  /virtual-memory@0,0  
  /memory@0,0  
  /sbus@1,f8000000  
  /auxiliary-io@1,f7400003  
  /interrupt-enable@1,f5000000  
  /memory-error@1,f4000000  
  /counter-timer@1,f3000000  
  /eeprom@1,f2000000  
  /audio@1,f7201000  
  /zs@1,f0000000  
  /zs@1,f1000000  
  /openprom  
  /aliases  
  /options  
  /packages  
  /sbus@1,f8000000/cgsix@3,0  
  /sbus@1,f8000000/le@0,c00000  
  /sbus@1,f8000000/esp@0,800000

Tip - For more information on the OpenBoot command, refer to the OpenBoot 2.x Command Reference Manual and the OpenBoot 3.x Command Reference Manual.