Asus Pedestal/5U Rackmount Server TS500-E4 Server, User Manual

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7-16 Chapter 7: Driver installation
7.2.2 Red Hat/SuSE Linux
Follow these instructions when installing the Intel
®
LAN controller base
driver for the in Red Hat
®
and SuSE Linux operating system.
Before installing the LAN driver:
Before installing the LAN driver, you must install the kernel development
application. To install the kernel development:
1. Insert the Linux OS installation CD Disk 1 to the optical drive.
2. Double click “Application” > “System setting” > “Add / Remove
application”.
3. Select “Kernel Development” from the Development Tools.
4. Follow the later steps and add different CDs according to the
instructions displayed.
Building the driver from the TAR file:
1. Insert the motherboard/system support CD to the optical drive and
mount the optional drive in the Linux platform.
2. Copy the base driver tar file from the motherboard/system support CD
to the directory of your local hard disk. The name format of driver file is
“e1000-<Version>.tar.gz”.
For example: the file name of driver version 7.0.38 is “e1000-7.0.38.
tar.gz”.
• The Intel
®
LAN driver for Linux OS is located in:
\Drivers\INTEL 82563EB\PRO1000\LINUX
3. Untar or unzip the archive.
tar zxf e1000-x.x.x.tar.gz
4. Change to the driver src directory.
cd e1000-x.x.x/src/
5. Use the command “makeinstall” to compile the driver module.
makeinstall
6. After reboot the system, please refer to Linux distribution
documentation to configure the network protocol and IP address.