H A R D W A R E I N S T A L L A T I O N
Windows NT Driver Installation
After successfully installing the hardware as described in the
Card
Installation
section on page 2, install the drivers. For a Windows NT
operating system continue with the following installation instructions.
1) Turn on the computer.
2) Insert the MFT CD into the CD drive.
3) The CD will auto start.
4) Select
the
SB-36220
card software to install.
5) Follow any instructions that may appear on the screen. The computer
will need to be rebooted for the device driver to run. Once rebooted,
proceed to the
Motion Feedback Board Manager
section on page 13.
Linux Driver Installation
Linux is a free Unix-type operating system developed under the GNU General
Public License. The source code for Linux is freely available to everyone.
Since it’s inception in 1991, individuals, university students and companies
began distributing Linux with their own choice of packages bound around the
original kernel. This is where the concept of the "distribution" was born. This
also complicates providing Linux support for our hardware because there are
over 150 distributions of Linux. Red Hat Linux is one of the most popular
distributions in the world. For this reason we have developed and tested our
Linux support on one of the many Red Hat distributions.
This guide was
prepared using Red Hat® Linux® 7.2.
To complete the Linux setup, the user should be familiar with basic Linux
procedures and commands (mounting, compiling, etc.). If you are unfamiliar
with Linux, try visiting some of these sites for helpful documentation:
•
www.ora.com
•
www.kernel.org
•
www.linux.org
•
www.linuxmall.com
•
www.amazon.com
•
www.ssc.com
•
www.linuxhq.com
Documentation can also be found at any of the following major distribution
sites for Linux:
•
www.redhat.com
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