Installing The Driver For An Ethernet Card Or A Cna Card - Lenovo ThinkServer RD550 Operating System Installation Manual
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1. Download the driver for an onboard graphics 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:
• For the file with the .sh extension:
cd /tmp
cd lxdrv-1-
./update.sh
Note: In the command lines, lxdrv represents the name of the folder that the drive is stored.
update.sh represents the driver name. Use the corresponding file name on your server.
• For the file with the .rpm extension:
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 drive name. Use the corresponding file name on your server.
4. Restart your server.
Installing the driver for an Ethernet card or a CNA card
This topic provides instructions on installing drivers for the following cards:
• I350-T2
• I350-T4
• X520-DA2
• X520-SR2
• X540-T2
• 4 xGbE RJ45
• 2 x 10GbE SFP Ports
• 2 x 10GbE RJ45 ports
To install the driver for an Ethernet card or a CNA card, do the following:
1. Download the driver for the 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
tar zxvf ixgbe-x.x.x.x.tar.gz
cd igb -x.x.x.x /src
make install
Notes:
• If the file extension is not .tar.gz, skip the second command.
• In the command lines, igb-x.x.x.x represents the driver name. Use the corresponding file name
on your server.
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Chapter 4
Installing drivers
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