Asus NCCH-DL Disk Array & Driver Installation Guide English Version - Page 64

3 . 3 Red Hat® Linux 9.0 Follow these instructions when installing the Intel® 82547GI LAN controller base driver for the in Red Hat® Linux version 5.2.x operating system. The following procedures were tested for 2.4.x kernels through 2.4.20. Building and installing the drivers To build a binary RPM package of this driver, run rpmbuild -tb Replace with the specific filename of the driver. The currently running kernel must match the version and configuration of the installed kernel sources for the build to work properly, Reboot the system now if you have just recompiled the kernel. The RPM functionality has only been tested in Red Hat® distributions. 1. Move the base driver tar file to the directory of your choice. For example, use /home/username/e1000 or /usr/local/src/e1000. 2. Untar or unzip the archive. tar zxf e1000-x.x.x.tar.gz 3. Change to the driver src directory. cd e1000-x.x.x/src/ 4. Compile the driver module. makenstall The binary is installed as: /lib/modules/[KERNEL_VERSION]/kernel/drivers/net/e1000.o The locations listed above are default install locations and might not be correct for some Linux distributions. For more information, see the ldistrib.txt file included in the driver tar. 5. Install the module. insmod e1000 = 6. Assign an IP address to the interface by entering the following: ifconfig ethx where x is the interface number. 7. To verify if the interface works, enter the following: ping where is the IP address of another system on the same subnet as the system being tested. 64 RAID configuration and driver installation