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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