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Driver Installation

Appendix E

Network Application Platforms

To verify the LAN controller driver installation, do the

following steps:
1. Right-click on the My Computer icon, and then select

Properties form the menu.
Click the Hardware tab, then click the Device Manager

button.
Click the + sign next to the Network adapters, then the

Intel Pro/1000 [......................] adapter should be listed.

Linux

Follow these instructions when installing the Intel® LAN

controller base driver for the Red Hat® and Linux operating

system.

Insert the Drivers and user's manual CD to the optical

1.

drive and mount the optional drive in the Linux

platform.
Copy the base driver tar file from the motherboard/

2.

system support CD to the directory of your local hard

disk. The Intel® LAN driver for Linux OS is located in the

following directory:

\Driver\LAN\\LINUX. The name format

of driver file is “e100-.tar.gz”. For example:

the file name of driver version 7.0.38 is “e100(or1000)-

7.0.38. tar.gz”.

Untar/unzip the archive, where is the version

3.

number for the driver tar file:

tar zxf e1000-.tar.gz

Change to the driver src directory on your system,

4.

where is the version number for the driver tar:

cd e1000-/src/

Compile the driver module by typing the following

5.

command:

make install

The binary will be installed as:

6.

/lib/modules//kernel/drivers/net/

e1000.o
The install locations listed above are the default

locations. They might not be correct for certain Linux

distributions.

Load the module using either the insmod or modprobe

7.

command:

modprobe igb

insmod igb

Note that for 2.6 kernels the insmod command

can be used if the full path to the driver module is specified.

For example:
insmod /lib/modules//kernel/

drivers/net/igb/igb.ko

With 2.6 based kernels also make sure that older

igb drivers are removed from the kernel, before loading

the new module:

rmmod igb; modprobe igb

Assign an IP address to the interface by entering the

8.

following, where is the interface number: