Setting up the driver in a linux platform, To set up the driver in a linux platform, Appendix d – Sun Microsystems Ethernet PCI-X Adapter User Manual

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A P P E N D I X

Installing the Sun 10-Gigabit
Ethernet Device Driver on Linux
Platforms

This appendix explains how to install the Sun 10-Gigabit Ethernet PCI-X device
driver in a Linux environment. This appendix contains the following sections:

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“Setting Up the Driver in a Linux Platform” on page 53

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“Setting Driver Parameters in a Linux Environment” on page 56

Setting Up the Driver in a Linux
Platform

If your system uses the Linux operating system you will need to perform the
following procedure to be sure the Sun 10-Gigabit Ethernet device driver is properly
installed and loaded.

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To Set Up the Driver in a Linux Platform

1. Build the 10-Gigabit Ethernet driver:

where the version is the minor version number such as:

sun-10-gigabit-kernel-1.0.82.6-1.src.rpm

# rpmbuild --rebuild sun-10-gigabit-kernel-1.0.

version

.src.rpm