2 red hat, Enterprise ver. 3.0, Building the driver – Asus P5BV/SAS User Manual
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ASUS P5BV Series
6-15
6.2.2
Red Hat
®
Enterprise ver. 3.0
Follow these instructions when installing the Broadcom 5721 LAN controller base
driver for the Red Hat
®
Enterprise ver. 3.0 operating system.
Building the driver
Install first the Kernel Development tools before building the driver from the TAR
file.
To build the driver from the TAR file:
1. Create a directory and extract the TAR files:
tar xvzf bcm5700-<version>.tar.gz
2. Build the driver bcm5700.o as a loadable module for the running kernel:
cd bcm5700-<version>/src
make
3. Test the driver by loading it:
insmod bcm5700.o
4. Install the driver and man page:
make install
5. Refer to Red Hat distribution documentation to configure the network protocol
and address.
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