Gigabit Ethernet Driver Installation; Ioat Driver Installation - Acer Altos R720 Installation & Configuration Manual

At the package selection step, select Software Development for the
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installation package.
Please follow the normal procedure to finish the installation.
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Gigabit Ethernet Driver Installation

NOTE. Please install the
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 prior to install the Gigabit Ethernet driver.
1. You can find the Gigabit Ethernet driver in EasyBUILD. Please copy the
driver from the EasyBUILD to HDD first.
# mount /dev/dvd /mnt
# cp –R /mnt/Disk/R720/NIC/Intel/pro1000.lx/. /tmp
2. Remove the OS built-in NIC driver
# rmmod e1000.ko
3. Change the directory to the driver source and install the driver
# cd /tmp/src/
# make install
# insmod e1000.ko
4. Run the kudzu utility, it will auto detect the Gigabit Ethernet controller
and help you to configure it.
# kudzu
5. Restart the network service to bring up both of the network interfaces.
# service network restart

IOAT driver installation

1. Please remove the old version of IOAT driver from the system manually.
# cd /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers/dma
# mv ioatdma.ko ioatdma.ko.bak
2. You can find the IOAT driver in EasyBUILD. Please copy the driver from the
EasyBUILD to HDD first.
Copy the IOAT driver to /tmp
# cd /tmp
# tar zxf ioatdma-<ioat version>.tar.gz
3. Install the IOAT driver
# cd ioatdma-<ioat version>
# make install
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