Installing Drivers For The Red Hat Enterprise Linux Operating System; Installing The Driver For An Onboard Graphics Card; Installing The Driver For An Ethernet Card - Lenovo ThinkServer TD350 Installation Manual

Installing drivers for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system

This topic provides instructions on installing rivers for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system.
Note: Your server comes with a chipset driver pre-installed. You do not need to install the chipset driver
manually.

Installing the driver for an onboard graphics card

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

This topic provides instructions on installing drivers for the following Ethernet cards:
• I350-T2
• I350-T4
• X520-DA2
• X520-SR2
• X540-T2
To install the driver for an Ethernet card, do the following:
1. Download the driver for an Ethernet 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 e1000e-x.x.x.x.tar.gz
cd e1000e -x.x.x.x/src
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