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10 Sun Dual 10GbE XFP PCI Express Card User’s Guide • January 2009
Note – In RHEL5.0 and later releases, the driver is packaged in the
kmod
driver
binary package format. This packaging allows forward and backward driver binary
compatibility within the same flavors of RHEL5 releases. Driver packages
nxge
version 2.0.0 and later are not compatible with the earlier
nxge-1.x-x
releases. To
upgrade from
1.x-x to 2.x.x
rpm package, it is necessary to remove
nxge-1.x-
x
package before installing the
2.x.x
package.
The RHEL5
nxge 2.x.x kmod
package contains two separate packages: One for the
driver and another one for applications like
nxge_config
. You must install both of
the following packages:
To install the complete package, enter the following:
To ensure that the driver is loaded after the rpm installation, enter the following:
5. Verify the new network interface instances corresponding to the Sun x8 Express
Dual 10 Gigabit Ethernet Fiber XFP Low Profile Adapter:
The Sun x8 Express Dual 10 Gigabit Ethernet Fiber XFP Low Profile Adapter
instances,
eth4
and
eth5
, are shown in
bold italics
.
6. Add the
nxge
interfaces to the
/etc/modules.conf
file to automatically load
the driver after system reboot:
kmod-nxge-rhel-2.0-1.x86_64.rpm (
driver binary package
)
nxge-apps-rhel-2.0-1.x86_64.rpm (
application package
)
# rpm -ivh nxge-apps-rhel-2.0-1.x86_64.rpm kmod-nxge-rhel-2.0-1.x86_64.rpm
# modprobe nxge
# 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
eth4 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:4F:6C:78:E8
eth5 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:4F:6C:78:E9
alias eth4 nxge
alias eth5 nxge