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Chapter 7: Driver installation
7.4.2 Red Hat
®
Enterprise
Follow these instructions when installing the Broadcom 5721 LAN controller base
driver for the Red Hat
®
Enterprise operating system.
Building the driver
To build the driver:
1. Copy the Lan Driver from the SCD and save it in TMP.
2. Decompress the le.
3. Enter DriverInstall.
4 Enter ./install.sh.
5. Enter # cd/usr/src/linux
# cat/patch-location/sk98lin_vX.XX_a_b_c_patch | patch -p1.
6. Enter makemenucong, select Broadcom 1000 Lan from the prompt
menu, and then select M from the submenu.
7. Enter make clean.
8. Enter make modules.
9. Enter make modules SUBDIRS=drivers/net/sk98lin/ V=1.
10 Enter make modules_install SUBDIRS=drivers/net/sk98lin/ V=1.
11 Enter rm /lib/modules/2.6.16.21-0.8-bigsmp/kernel/drivers/net/ssk98lin/
sk98lin.ko.
12. Enter depmod.
13. Enter modprobe sk98lin.
Install rst the Kernel Development tools before building the driver from the TAR
le.