Testing The Driver Software - NETGEAR GA622T Reference Manual

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4. Add the following lines to any of the startup scripts like

/etc/rc.d/init.d/network

# /sbin/insmod /lib/modules/2.2.12-20/net/gam.o

# /sbin/ifconfig <interface-name> <ip-addr>

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

first 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

You can dynamically load and unload the driver from a running kernel with the

following commands:

# insmod gam.o

# rmmod gam.o

Testing the Driver Software

To install and test the driver, shut down the network stack, install the driver, and

re-start the stack again with these commands:

# sh /etc/rc.d/init.d/network stop

# insmod gam.o

# sh /etc/rc.d/init.d/network start

When the driver is loaded into the system with the

probes the PCI bus to locate all GA622T devices, and creates control structures for

each.The driver logs a couple of messages available in the

for each device with information about its PCI geographic location, IRQ, IO address,

and some basic debug information (addresses of some important structures).

so that the driver will load when the system boots up:

insmod

/etc/rc.d/rc.local

command, the driver

/var/log/messages

Linux driver software

file

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