Chapter 1: Introduction 1.1 Product Introduction The PCIe 2.5G Network Adapter supports data rate up to 2.5Gbps. It will increase business efficiency by increasing the network speed and greatly reduce file transfer time between networked devices in a home environment, where video streaming over the network is becoming commonplace.
1.2 Features Supports PCI Express 2.1 ⚫ Supports 10/100/1000/2500 Mbps Ethernet ⚫ Supports WOL ⚫ Fully Compliant with IEEE 802.3, IEEE 802.3u, IEEE 802.3ab ⚫ LEDs indicate the status of including Link/Activity (Green) ⚫ 1.3 Systems Requirements Operating systems supported are (both 32 and 64 bits) Windows 7/8.x/10 ⚫...
Chapter 2: Getting Started 2.1 Hardware Layout Link/Activity Indicator: When the LED is off, there is no link between the PCIe 2.5G ⚫ 4-Speed Multi-Gigabit Network Card and the network When the LED is on, a link is established, but there is no traffic ⚫...
When the LED is flashing, there is traffic on the network to ⚫ which the PCIe 2.5G 4-Speed Multi-Gigabit Network Card is connected 2.2 Hardware Installation Turn off the power to your computer. Unplug the power cord and remove your computer’s cover. Remove the slot bracket from an available PCIe slot.
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will start automatically. The following screen will show up and please click “Install Driver”. *Note: Actual image may vary Note: If the install program doesn’t run automatically, please locate and double-click on the Autorun.exe file in the CD to launch the install program. ...
2.3.2 Installation for Linux Insert the provided CD into your CD-ROM drive. Extract the compressed driver source file to a certain directory by the following command: (Please copy the driver file “r8xx-x.xxx.xx.zip” from the CD folder “.\Driver\ Realtek\RTL PCIe Network\linux” to a certain folder on hard drive) # tar xf r8xx-x.xxx.xx.zip Now, the driver source files should be extracted under the current directory.
2.4 Verifying the installation 2.4.1 Verifying for Windows Click on the “Device Manager” tab in the Windows Control Panel. Start > Control Panel > Device Manager Entry “Network adapters” item, and you can read “Realtek PCIe 2.5GbE Family Controller” in the Device Manager. MN5000000073 Page 9...
2.4.2 Verifying for Linux You can check whether the driver is loading by using following commands: # lsmod | grep r8xx # ifconfig –a If there is a device name, ethX, shown on the monitor, the linux driver is load. Then, you can use the following command to activate the ethX.
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