Sun Microsystems E25544-02, User Manual

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Installing the Driver 21
Note – The primary driver link is a buildable source archive that works with Linux
2.6. x kernels only and requires that the currently running kernel match the SRC RPM
kernel files and headers in order to build the driver. See the bundled
README
file in
the unpacked archive from Intel for more information.
For this example, assume that the file is named
ixgbe-1.2.3.4.tar.gz
. The
actual file might have different version or subversion numbers.
7. Review and accept the software license agreement.
8. Copy the file containing the driver from
~/Desktop
to
/temp
.
9. Uncompress and untar the file.
10. Go to the newly created
src
directory.
11. Compile the driver source file.
12. Load the
ixgbe
(7D) driver.
13. Verify that the
ixgbe
(7D) driver has been successfully installed.
The output should be similar to the following:
# tar -zxvf ixgbe-1.2.3.4.tar.gz
# cd /temp/ixgbe-1.2.3.4/src
# make
# make install
# modprobe ixgbe
# lsmod | grep ixgbe
ixgbe 118052 0