Installing The Driver For A Raid Card; Installing Drivers For The Red Hat Enterprise Linux As 6.5 Operating System; Installing The Driver For The Chipset; Installing The Driver For An Onboard Graphics Card - Lenovo ThinkServer RD550 Operating System Installation Manual

3. Use the following commands to install the driver:
cd /tmp
cd rpms-2
rpm-ivh *.rpm
Note: In the command lines, rpms-2 represents the name of the folder that the drive is stored. *.rpm
represents the driver name. Use the corresponding file name on your server.
4. Restart your server.

Installing the driver for a RAID card

This topic provides instructions on how to install the driver for both add-on and onboard RAID cards,
such as the LSI 9286CV-8e RAID 510i adapter, the RAID 720i adapter, the RAID 720i exp adapter, and
the RAID110i adapter.
To install the driver for a RAID card, do the following:
1. Download the corresponding driver for the RAID card from the Lenovo Web site. If the driver is a
compressed file, unzip it to a folder. Then, copy the folder to your USB storage device and connect
the USB storage device to your server.
2. Log in to the operating system and copy the folder from your USB storage device to the /tmp directory
on your server.
3. Use the following commands to install the driver:
cd /tmp
cd rpms-2
rpm-ivh *.rpm
Note: In the command lines, rpms-2 represents the name of the folder that the drive is stored. *.rpm
represents the driver name. Use the corresponding file name on your server.
4. Restart your server.
Installing drivers for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 6.5 operating
system
To install drivers for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 6.5 operating system, refer to the related topics.
• "Installing the driver for the chipset" on page 42
• "Installing the driver for an onboard graphics card" on page 42
• "Installing the driver for an Ethernet card or a CNA card" on page 43
• "Installing the driver for the LPe16002B HBA card or a CNA card" on page 44
• "Installing the driver for a RAID card" on page 44
Note: Your server comes with a chipset driver pre-installed. You do not need to install the chipset driver
manually.

Installing the driver for the chipset

For the Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 6.5 operating system, the driver for the chipset comes with the
operating system installation.

Installing the driver for an onboard graphics card

To install the driver for an onboard graphics card, do the following:
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