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2 red hat, Enterprise ver. 3.0, Building the driver from the tar file – Asus P5MT-C User Manual

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Chapter 6: Driver installation

4. Click Next when the InstallShield Wizard window appears. Follow

screen instructions to continue installation.

6.2.2 Red Hat

®

Enterprise ver. 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

To build the driver from the TAR file:

1. Create a directory and extract the TAR files:

tar xvzf bcm5700-.tar.gz

2. Build the driver bcm5700.o as a loadable module for the running kernel:

cd bcm5700-/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.