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8. When you are prompted with the statement, "Select a hardware type, and then click Next", select
Network adapters. Click Next to continue.
9. You are prompted with the statement, "Completing the Found New Hardware Wizard". Click Finish.
Note: A new local area connection appears and might state, "This connection has limited or no
connectivity". Ignore this message.
10. Go back to the Device Manager. IBM USB Remote NDIS Network Device appears under Network
Adapters.
11. Open a command prompt, type ipconfig, and press Enter. The local area connection for the IBM USB
RNDIS appears with an IP address in the range of 169.254.xxx.xxx with a subnet mask set to 255.255.0.0.
LAN over USB Linux Driver Installation
Use this information to install the LAN over USB driver for Linux.
Current versions of Linux, such as RHEL5 Update 2 and SLES10 Service Pack 2, support the LAN over
USB interface by default. This interface is detected and displayed during the installation of these operating
systems. When you configure the device, use a static IP address of 169.254.95.130 with a subnet mask of
255.255.0.0.
Note: Older Linux distributions might not detect the LAN over USB interface, and might require manual
configuration. For information about configuring LAN over USB on specific Linux distributions, see the IBM
white paper Transitioning to UEFI and IMM on the IBM web site (see "Related documentation" on page 3 for
information on how to find publications for your blade server).
The IMM LAN over USB interface requires that the usbnet and cdc_ether drivers be loaded. If the drivers
have not been installed, use modprobe to install them. When these drivers are loaded, the IMM USB network
interface shows up as a network device in the operating system. To discover the name that the operating
system has assigned to the IMM USB network interface, type:
dmesg | grep -i cdc ether
The interface is configured with ifconfig to have an IP address in the range 169.254.xxx.xxx. For example:
ifconfig IMM_device_name 169.254.1.102 netmask 255.255.0.0
This interface is configured to come up with an IP address in the 169.254.xxx.xxx range each time that the
operating system is booted.
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