NETGEAR GA621 manual # mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt

Installing the Driver Software

Your Fiber Gigabit Ethernet Card must be physically installed in the server before installing the software driver. If you are installing more than one Fiber Gigabit Ethernet Card, you must perform the following procedure for each card.

This version of the driver requires a base Red Hat Linux 6.0, 6.1, 6.2 and 7.0 with Linux kernel version 2.2.12, or Red Hat Linux 7.1 with Linux kernel version 2.4.2.

To install the driver software:

1.Login as root, insert the floppy disk with the GA621 driver, and mount the disk into the system with the following command:

#mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt

2.Copy the Linux drivers from the CDROM into the System harddrive with the following command.

#mkdir ga621

#cd ga621

#cp /mnt/cdrom/linux/redhat x.x/x .

3.To create a new driver object module and install the current driver object module in the file system, run the following command:

#make

#cp gam.o /lib/modules/2.2.14-50/net (redhat 6.2)

Note: You may need to enter a different pathname than what is shown on the last line, above, depending on the Linux kernel version number you have.To find out the exact version number of the Linux kernel, use this command:

ls -al /lib/modules

Linux driver software 7-2