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Installing Broadcom NetXtreme II Drivers and TOE
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This document provides important information about installing Broadcom
NetXtreme II drivers and also describes known limitations of the driver set
under various conditions. For further information about the Broadcom
drivers, see the
release.txt file on the driver CD or in the downloadable
Broadcom driver package.
This document also provides information about installing and enabling
the TCP/IP Offload Engine (TOE) feature on your system and provides
important information about using TOE. For more information on TOE,
see the Power Solutions white paper
"Boosting Data Transfer with TCP/IP
Offload Engine Technology" on support.dell.com .
Installing the Broadcom Drivers in Microsoft
®
Windows
®
To install the Broadcom driver package (NetXtreme version 10.5 or later and
NetXtreme II version 3.5 or later), run the
setup.exe file that is provided by
Dell™ with the driver package. The Broadcom installer installs all of the
available package features by default. The
setup.exe file can be accessed by
any of the following methods:
• On the Broadcom Driver Installation CD that shipped with your system,
the setup.exe file is located in the Driver_Management_Apps_Installer
subdirectory under the directory of the version of Microsoft Windows you
are using.
• In Common Deploy and Update (CDU), the Broadcom driver package
and
setup.exe are located on the Service Mode CD.
• If you have downloaded the Broadcom driver package from
support.dell.com, uncompress the downloaded file and locate the
setup.exe file in the extracted directory. The setup.exe file is the preferred
method for installing the drivers on a local system. However, if you need to
install the drivers using the Windows Plug and Play method, you can
extract the drivers from the installer file by running
setup.exe /a
and
specifying a directory for the extracted files.