Installing The Sun 10-Gigabit Ethernet Device Driver On Linux Platforms; Setting Up The Driver In A Linux Platform; To Set Up The Driver In A Linux Platform - Sun Microsystems Ethernet PCI-X Adapter Installation And User Manual

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Installing the Sun 10-Gigabit
Ethernet Device Driver on Linux
Platforms
This appendix explains how to install the Sun 10-Gigabit Ethernet PCI-X device
driver in a Linux environment. This appendix contains the following sections:
"Setting Up the Driver in a Linux Platform" on page 53
"Setting Driver Parameters in a Linux Environment" on page 56
Setting Up the Driver in a Linux
Platform
If your system uses the Linux operating system you will need to perform the
following procedure to be sure the Sun 10-Gigabit Ethernet device driver is properly
installed and loaded.

To Set Up the Driver in a Linux Platform

1. Build the 10-Gigabit Ethernet driver:
# rpmbuild --rebuild sun-10-gigabit-kernel-1.0.version.src.rpm
where the version is the minor version number such as:
sun-10-gigabit-kernel-1.0.82.6-1.src.rpm
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