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6.3.2 Red Hat
Follow these instructions when installing the Intel
®
LAN controller base driver for
the in Red Hat
®
operating system.
Before installing the LAN driver:
Before installing the LAN driver, you must install the kernel development
application. To install the kernel development:
1. Insert the Linux OS installation CD Disk 1 to the optical drive.
2. Double click
Application > System setting > Add / Remove application
.
3. Select
Kernel Development
from the
Development Tools
.
4. Follow the later steps and add different CDs according to the instructions
displayed.
Building the driver from the TAR le:
1. Insert the motherboard/system support CD to the optical drive and mount the
optional drive in the Linux platform.
2. Copy the base driver tar le from the motherboard/system support CD to
the directory of your local hard disk. The name format of driver le is
e1000-
<Version>.tar.gz
.
For example: the le name of driver version 7.0.38 is
e1000-7.0.38.tar.gz
.
• The Intel
®
LAN driver for Linux OS is located in:
\Drivers\INTEL 82563EB\PRO1000\LINUX
3. Untar or unzip the archive.
tar zxf e1000-x.x.x.tar.gz
4. Change to the driver src directory.
cd e1000-x.x.x/src/
5. Use the command “makeinstall” to compile the driver module.
makeinstall
6. After reboot the system, please refer to Linux distribution documentation to
congure the network protocol and IP address.