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GETTING STARTED 

2.1 Hardware Layout

Link/Activity Indicator:

• When the LED is off, there is no link between the PCIe 2.5G 4-Speed 

Multi-Gigabit Network Card and the network.

• When the LED is on, a link is established, but there is no traffic on the 

network.

• When the LED is flashing, there is traffic on the network to which the 

PCIe 2.5G 4-Speed Multi-Gigabit Network Card is connected.

2.2 Hardware Installation

1. Turn off the power to your computer.
2. Unplug the power cord and remove your computer’s cover.
3. Remove the slot bracket from an available PCIe slot.
4. To install the card, carefully align the card’s bus connector with the 

selected PCIe slot on the motherboard. Push the board down firmly.

5. Replace the slot bracket’s holding screw to secure the card.
6. Secure the computer cover and reconnect the power cord.

10/100/1000 M

Link/Activity Indicator

2.5 G Link/Activity Indicator

Summary of Contents for RC-20001

Page 1: ...ming over the network is becoming commonplace 1 2 Features Supports PCI Express 2 1 Supports 10 100 1000 2500 Mbps Ethernet Support Wake On Lan WOL power management Fully Compliant with IEEE 802 3 IEEE 802 3u IEEE 802 3ab LEDs indicate the status of including Link Activity Up to 16K jumbo frame support Feature full duplex mode that doubles the network connections speed 1 3 Systems Requirements Ope...

Page 2: ...d Multi Gigabit Network Card is connected 2 2 Hardware Installation 1 Turn off the power to your computer 2 Unplug the power cord and remove your computer s cover 3 Remove the slot bracket from an available PCIe slot 4 To install the card carefully align the card s bus connector with the selected PCIe slot on the motherboard Push the board down firmly 5 Replace the slot bracket s holding screw to ...

Page 3: ...s 2 3 1 Installation for Windows 1 Insert the provided CD into your disk drive The CD ROM will start automatically The following screen will show up and please click Install Driver Note If the install program doesn t run automatically please locate and double click on the Autorun exe file in the CD to launch the install program Note Actual image may vary ...

Page 4: ...4 2 Please click RTL PCIe to start the installation 3 Select the required system and click the button 4 Follow the instructions on screen to install the driver Note Actual image may vary ...

Page 5: ...ry by the following command Please copy the driver file r81xx x xxx xx zip from the CD folder Driver RTL PCIe Linux to a certain folder on hard drive a tar vjxf r81xx x xxx xx zip Now the driver source files should be extracted under the current directory Executing the following command to compile the driver b autorun sh as root or with sudo ...

Page 6: ...em and you can read four Realtek PCIe 2 5GBE Family Controller item in the Device Manager 2 4 2 Verifying for Linux 1 You can check whether the driver is loading by using following commands lsmod grep r81xx ifconfig a If there is a device name ethX shown on the monitor the Linux driver is loaded Then you can use the following command to activate the ethX ifconfig ethX up where X 0 1 2 ...

Page 7: ...ard vendor asking the advanced supporting for BIOS updated 5 The board itself might be defective You can try another motherboard testing PCIe 2 5G 4 Speed Multi Gigabit Network Adapter working or not Computer failed to start after inserting the PCIe 2 5G 4 Speed Multi Gigabit Network Adapter Turn off the computer remove the PCIe 2 5G 4 Speed Multi Gigabit Network Adapter and try to restart the com...

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