Installing device drivers and utilities, Installing device drivers, And utilities – Perle Systems RIO 5500036-17 User Manual

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RIO Remote I/O System User Guide
Installing RIO under Solaris

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Chapter 2 Installing hardware and software

Installing device drivers and utilities

To install the RIO device drivers and utilities for the Solaris operating system proceed as
follows;

1. Login to your system as super user and begin a terminal session.

2. At the command prompt, type one of the commands shown in the next table depending

on the source of the riosol.pkg file you want to use;

3. Press the

Enter

key.

The following question is now displayed:

4. At the question prompt, type

1

and press the

Enter

key.

The following confirmation is now displayed as shown in the next picture.

Note

Before you install the RIO drivers and utilities you need to obtain the driver
package file ("riosol.pkg").

You can do this from either the CDROM (Solaris will automatically mount the
CDROM when inserted, and start the file manager application), or our website
(see

Downloading RIO drivers from the Perle web site

on page

34

).

Source of riosol.pkg file

Type this command

CDROM
Note

x

is version number

pkgadd -d /cdrom/drivers/rio/solaris/riosol.pkg

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