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Chapter 6: Driver installation

6.2.2 Red Hat/SuSE Linux

Follow these instructions when installing the Intel

LAN controller base driver for

the in Red Hat

and SuSE Linux operating system.

Before installing the LAN driver:

Before installing the LAN driver, you must install the kernel development

application. To install the kernel development:

1. Insert the Linux OS installation CD Disk 1 to the optical drive.

2. Double click “Application” > “System setting” > “Add / Remove application”.

3. Select “Kernel Development” from the Development Tools.

4. Follow the later steps and add different CDs according to the instructions

displayed.

Building the driver from the TAR le:

1. Insert the motherboard/system support CD to the optical drive and mount the

optional drive in the Linux platform.

2. Copy the base driver tar le from the motherboard/system support CD to the

directory of your local hard disk. The name format of driver le is “e1000-

<Version>.tar.gz”.

For example: the le name of driver version 7.0.38 is “e1000-7.0.38.tar.gz”.

• The Intel

LAN driver for Linux OS is located in:

\Drivers\INTEL 82563EB\PRO1000\LINUX

3. Untar or unzip the archive.

tar zxf e1000-x.x.x.tar.gz

4. Change to the driver src directory.

cd e1000-x.x.x/src/

5. Use the command “makeinstall” to compile the driver module.

makeinstall

6. After reboot the system, please refer to Linux distribution documentation to

congure the network protocol and IP address.

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