Installing The Driver Software - NETGEAR GA622T Reference Manual

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Installing the Driver Software

Your Copper Gigabit Ethernet Card must be physically installed in the server before

installing the software driver. If you are installing more than one Copper Gigabit

Ethernet Card, you must perform the following procedure for each card.

This version of the driver requires a base Red Hat Linux 6.1 or Red Hat Linux 6.2

with Linux kernel version 2.2.12, basic utilities, and the C development system.

To install the driver software:

1. Login as root, insert the floppy disk with the GA622T driver, and mount the disk

into the system with the following command:

# mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt

2. Copy the files from floppy into an appropriate directory.

# mkdir ga622t

# cd ga622t

# cp /mnt/linux/* .

3. To create a new driver object module and install the current driver object module

in the file system, run the following command:

# make gam.o

# cp gam.o /lib/modules/2.2.12-20/net

Note: You may need to enter a different pathname than what is shown on the

last line, above, depending on the Linux kernel version number you have.To find

out the exact version number of the Linux kernel, use this command:

ls -al /lib/modules

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