Installing Linux On A At-2970 Or At-2971 Series Adapters; Overview; Required Files; Installation Guidelines - Allied Telesis AT-2450 Series Installation Manual

Installing Linux on a AT-2970 or AT-2971 Series Adapters

Overview

Required Files

Installation
Guidelines
Installing the
Driver
Readme File for AT-2970 and AT-2971 v6.06 Allied Telesyn AT-2970 and
AT-2971 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter family driver for LINUX Install
Instructions for sk98lin Driver
The sk98lin driver installation script supports the AT-2970 and AT-2971
Series Adapaters on Linux 2.4.11 and above. It has been tested with
Linux on Intel/x86 machines.
To install the Linux driver for the AT-2970 or AT-2971 Series Adapters,
you will need the following files:
The linux kernel source.
Compiler tools
This script will automatically compile and load the sk98lin driver on your
host system. Before performing both compilation and loading, you must
shutdown any device using the sk98lin kernel module and to unload the
old sk98lin kernel module. This script will do this automatically per
default. If you want to shutdown and unload the old sk98lin kernel
module manually, run the script in the EXPERT mode.
Plug a card into your computer. Without a card you are able to check the
full driver functionality.
Be sure to use the same kernel source and kernel version. For instance, it
might be, that you run kernel version 2.4.20, but the header files the
kernel module will be compiled with refer to kernel version 2.4.21. If you
do not have the same kernel version, install the sources and compile a
new kernel. You cannot mix different kernel versions.
To install the newest Linux driver, perform the following procedure:
1. Login as root.
2. Unpack the driver installation package using the command:
# tar xfvj install-606.tar.bz2
or
# bunzip2 -c install-606.tar.bz2 | tar xfv -
3. To start the driver build process, go to the DriverInstall directory
and start the build process with the following command:
# cd DriverInstall
# ./install.sh
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