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Chapter 3: Installation
3-8 Installing Drivers on FreeBSD
Follow the instructions below to install the drivers to a FreeBSD system, where
<x.x.x> is the driver version as indicated in the name of the driver tar file.
Note
: You must have kernel sources installed in order to compile the
driver module.
1. Download the driver from the Supermicro CDR-NIC LAN driver CD or
ftp.supermicro.com/Networking_Drivers/CDR-NIC_1.62_for_Add-on_NIC_
Cards/Intel/LAN/PRO40GB/FreeBSD
. Due to the continuous development
of the Linux kernel, the drivers are updated more often than the bundled
releases. The laterst driver can be found on
http://downloadcenter.intel.com
.
2.
Move the base driver tar file to the directory of your choice. For example, use
home/username/ixl or usr/local/src/ixl.
3. Untar/unzip the archive:
tar xfz ixl-x.x.xtar.gz
4. To install man page:
cd ixl-x.x.x
gzip -c ixl.4 /usr/share/man/man4/ixl.4.gz
5. To load the driver onto running system:
cd ixl-x.x.x/src
make load
6. To assign an IP address to the interface, enter the following:
ifconfig ix<interface_num> <IP_address>
7. Verify that the interface works. Enter the following, where <IP_address> is the
IP address for another machine on the same subnet as the interface that is
being tested::
ping <IP_address>
