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NovaScale Blade BL265 - Installation and User's Guide
10. Go back to the Device Manager. IBM USB Remote NDIS Network Device appears
under Network Adapters.
11. Open a command prompt, type ipconfig, and press Enter. The local area connection
for the IBM USB RNDIS appears with an IP address in the range of 169.254. xxx.xxx
with a subnet mask set to 255.255.0.0.
4.9.3.3 LAN over USB Linux Driver Installation
Current versions of Linux, such as RHEL5 Update 2 and SLES10 Service Pack 2, support the
LAN over USB interface by default. This interface is detected and displayed during the
installation of these operating systems. When you configure the device, use a static IP
address of 169.254.95.130 with a subnet mask of 255.255.0.0.
Note Older Linux distributions might not detect the LAN over USB interface, and might require
manual configuration. For information about configuring LAN over USB on specific Linux
distributions, see the white paper Transitioning to UEFI and IMM on
http://www.bull.com/support .
The IMM LAN over USB interface requires that the
usbnet
and
cdc_ether
drivers be
loaded. If the drivers have not been installed, use
modprobe
to install them. When these
drivers are loaded, the IMM USB network interface shows up as a network device in the
operating system. To discover the name that the operating system has assigned to the IMM
USB network interface, type:
dmesg | grep -i cdc ether
The interface is configured with
ifconfig
to have an IP address in the range
169.254.
xxx.xxx
. For example:
ifconfig IMM_device_name 169.254.1.102 netmask 255.255.0.0
This interface is configured to come up with an IP address in the 169.254.
xxx.xxx
range
each time that the operating system is booted.