SysKonnect SK-98xx V2.0 - Manual (Page 26)

26 4 Installation of the Driver Software
“ethX: network connection up using port Y” and showing the selected connection param-
eters. Now your adapter should be fully operational.
2. Execute
ping <other station>
to verify the connection to other computers on your
network.
For more information, refer to the corresponding readme file.
Sun Solaris
The “SKGEsol” driver package supports the SysKonnect SK-98xx family on Solaris 7 and
higher. Both SPARC and x86 systems (Solaris 9 does not support x86) are supported by the
respective driver version. For all supported Solaris SPARC versions, there is also a 64-bit ver-
sion.
There are two tools for installing the driver package:
•
”pkgadd”, which runs from the command line
• ”admintool”, which uses a GUI
The following description of the driver installation is based on an installation on Solaris
SPARC in 32-bit mode. It is valid for all Sun Solaris systems.
In order to perform the installation, you need “root” access.
Driver packages downloaded from our web site are available in a compressed format (.tar.Z
files). The package has to be uncompressed before installation.
Uncompress the
driver To uncompress the downloaded driver package, proceed as follows:
1. Go to the directory where the compressed driver package is located, e.g. /usr/SKGE/
skgesol_sparcv6.00.tar.Z for the SPARC Edition.
2. Uncompress the file with the following command:
uncompress skgesol_sparcv6.00.tar.Z
The result is the file “skgesol_sparcv6.00.tar”.
3. Untar this file with the following command:
tar -xvf skgesol_sparcv6.00.tar
The result is the subdirectory “SKGEsol” containing the driver package and the readme
files “skge.html” and “skge.txt”.
The driver package is now ready to be installed.
Install the driver with
“pkgadd” To install the driver using ”pkgadd”, proceed as follows:
1. After you have installed the adapter in your computer, boot your Sun Solaris system (for
details, see chapter 2 "Installation of the Network Adapter").
2. Go to the directory where the subdirectory “SKGEsol” is located.
3. Execute ”pkgadd”:
pkgadd -d . SKGEsol
A shell window is displayed asking whether you want to configure IP interfaces during
installation or not.
4. If yes, type
y
.
If no, type
n
.
5. Press <Enter>.
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If you are in doubt about the IP addresses, ask your network administrator for assistance.