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6-12 Chapter 6: Driver installation
6.2.2 Red Hat
®
Enterprise ve r. 3.0
Follow these instructions when installing the Broadcom
®
Gigabit LAN
controller base driver for the Red Hat
®
Enterprise ver. 3.0 operating
system.
Building the driver from the TAR file
4. Click Next when the InstallShield Wizard window appears. Follow
screen instructions to continue installation.
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.
Install first the Kernel Development tools before building the driver from
the TAR file.