Installing The Driver Software - NETGEAR GA621 Reference Manual

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Installing the Driver Software

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

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

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

This version of the driver requires a base Red Hat Linux 6.0, 6.1, 6.2 and 7.0 with

Linux kernel version 2.2.12, or Red Hat Linux 7.1 with Linux kernel version 2.4.2.

To install the driver software:

1. Login as root, insert the floppy disk with the GA621 driver, and mount the disk

into the system with the following command:

# mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt

2. Copy the Linux drivers from the CDROM into the System harddrive with the

following command.

# mkdir ga621

# cd ga621

# cp /mnt/cdrom/linux/redhat x.x/x .

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

in the file system, run the following command:

# make

# cp gam.o /lib/modules/2.2.14-50/net (redhat 6.2)

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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