2 red hat® enterprise, Red hat, Enterprise -24 – Asus TS300-E5 User Manual

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Chapter 7: Driver installation

7.4.2

Red Hat

®

Enterprise

Follow these instructions when installing the Broadcom 5721 LAN controller base

driver for the Red Hat

®

Enterprise operating system.

Building the driver

To build the driver:

1. Copy the Lan Driver from the SCD and save it in TMP.
2. Decompress the file.
3. Enter DriverInstall.
4

Enter ./install.sh.

5. Enter # cd/usr/src/linux

# cat/patch-location/sk98lin_vX.XX_a_b_c_patch | patch -p1.

6. Enter make menuconfig, select Broadcom 1000 Lan from the prompt

menu, and then select M from the submenu.

7. Enter make clean.
8. Enter make modules.
9. Enter make modules SUBDIRS=drivers/net/sk98lin/ V=1.
10 Enter make modules_install SUBDIRS=drivers/net/sk98lin/ V=1.
11 Enter rm /lib/modules/2.6.16.21-0.8-bigsmp/kernel/drivers/net/ssk98lin/

sk98lin.ko.

12. Enter depmod.
13. Enter modprobe sk98lin.

Install first the Kernel Development tools before building the driver from the TAR

file.

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