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Chapter 2 Installing and Setting Up the Driver 9
Downloading and Installing the Driver
on a Linux Platform
1. Login to your system.
2. Download the driver RPM for your operating system:
http://www.sun.com/download/products.xml?id=44eb1efd
For example:
3. Discover the network interfaces before adding the package by using the
ifconfig -a
command:
4. Use the
rpm
tool to install the driver on SuSe and RedHat Linux.
nxge-1.0-1.x86_64.rpm
# ifconfig -a |grep eth
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:4F:20:F1:DC
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:4F:20:F1:DD
eth2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:4F:20:F1:DE
eth3 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:4F:20:F1:DF
# rpm -ivh /tmp/RHEL4U4-large/RPMS/x86_64/nxge-1.0-1.x86_64.rpm
Preparing... ###########################################
1:nxge ###########################################