SPEED Serial adaptors User guide
Installing under Linux
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Chapter 2 Installing drivers and host cards
Installing drivers onto your system
To install the device driver proceed as follows:
Using the kernel
patch file
1. Make sure you have an up to date Linux kernel source directory installed. This can be
or other major Linux web sites, along with instructions on
how to install and build.
2. Copy the driver patch file onto your system in a temporary directory. For example,
/tmp
.
The patch file will be named
speed.patch-<driver vers>-<kernel vers>.gz
For example,
speed.patch-6-2.2.13.gz
3. At the command prompt, uncompress the driver patch file by typing
gunzip /tmp speed.patch-6-2.2.13.gz
and pressing the
Enter
key.
4. At the command prompt, change directory to the kernel source directory by typing
cd /usr/src/linux
and pressing the
Enter
key.
5. At the command prompt, apply the kernel patch by typing
patch -p1 </tmp/speed.patch-6-2.2.13.gz
and pressing the
Enter
key.
Enabling the driver
6. Enable the driver using the
make config
or
make xconfig kernel
utility. The SPEED
driver appears in the
Character devices
section and is labelled
SPEED system
support
. Set this to
m
for modules
7. Within either the
make config
or the
make xconfig kernel
utility, set the
Support more than 4 serial ports
and
Support special multiport boards
options to
Y
and enable
Support for sharing serial interrupts
.
8. Now rebuild and install the kernel and modules. See your Linux distribution documentation
on how to rebuild and install a new kernel and modules. We recommend reading the Kernel-
HOWTO available in
/usr/doc/HOWTO
.
Note
When installing SPEED drivers under Linux
versions 2.2.x
, you will need to apply a patch file
to the kernel before enabling the drivers (step
of this procedure).
You can find a kernel patch file on either of the following;
• The CDROM (in the /drivers/speed/linux directory) supplied with your Perle product.
• The Perle website
As of Linux
version 2.4.x
, you do not need to apply a patch on this or later kernels, you can
proceed straight to enabling the driver using step
of this procedure.
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