Allied Telesis AT-ANC10S/4, Installation Manual

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Chapter 4: Installing the Linux Drivers
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Overview
This chapter discusses the Linux drivers for the ANC10S network
adapters and describes how to install them. For a description of the
drivers, see Table 3.
bnx2x Driver
Limitations
The current version of the driver has been tested on 2.4.x kernels (starting
from 2.4.24) and all 2.6.x kernels. The driver may not compile on kernels
older than 2.4.24.
Testing is concentrated on i386 and x86_64 architectures. Only limited
testing has been done on other architectures. You may need to make
minor changes to some source files and the Makefile on some kernels.
Packaging
The Linux driver is released in the packaging formats shown in Table 4.
The NetXtreme2 package contains the bnx2x (10 Gb network adapter)
and drivers for source RPM and compressed tar.
Identical source files to build the driver are included in both RPM and TAR
source packages. The supplemental tar file contains additional utilities
such as patches and driver diskette images for network installation.
Table 3. Linux Driver for the ANC10S Network Adapters
Linux Driver Description
bnx2x Indicates the Linux drivers for the AT-ANC10S/
2 and AT-ANC10S/4 network adapters. The
bnx2x driver is the networking driver.
Table 4. Linux Driver Packaging
Format
bnx2x Driver
Source RPM Netxtreme2-version.src.rpm
Compressed TAR Netxtreme2-version.tar.gz
Supplemental TAR Netxtreme2_sup-version.tar.gz