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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\
of driver file is “e100-
the file name of driver version 7.0.38 is “e100(or1000)-
7.0.38. tar.gz”.
Untar/unzip the archive, where
3.
number for the driver tar file:
tar zxf e1000-
Change to the driver src directory on your system,
4.
where
cd e1000-
Compile the driver module by typing the following
5.
command:
make install
The binary will be installed as:
6.
/lib/modules/
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/
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