Comtrol 550 guide

2.Installing the RocketPort 550 Linux Device Driver software

NOTE

The Comtrol Linux driver release 1.03 was developed using the RED HAT 8.0 distribution with Kernel revision 2.4.18-14.

The driver source is provided should developers wish or need to modify the driver for use with alternative Linux distributions and/or Kernels. For use with other 2.4.x kernels, a simple re-compilation (on the target system) is all that may be necessary and a ‘Makefile’ is provided to automate this process. Before (re)compilation, the kernel source must be installed.

For test purposes, the driver source was (re)compiled under Red Hat 7.3 kernel 2.4.18-3. The driver module was installed and functioned correctly.

This driver source will not (re)compile under the obsolete 2.2.x kernels. If it is wished to use the RocketPort 550 with these earlier kernels, then request a copy of the RocketPort 550 Linux driver release 1.00.

The installation media (i.e. what you are installing from) may be a 1.44Mb floppy diskette or a CD -ROM. Alternatively, you may have downloaded the driver from http://www.comtrol.com

There may be minor differences in the installation procedure depending on the installation media.

If you have downloaded the driver from http://www.comtrol.com, then it is suggested that you copy the ‘tar’ file to an MS-DOS formatted floppy diskette and follow the floppy disk based installation procedure

Following download, you may need to unzip the downloaded file in order to obtain the tar file. The tar file name will be of the format relXXX.tar where XXX is the release number. E.g. XXX = 103 = release 1.03

The following assumes that you have booted Linux and logged in as root.

Step 1

Extract the files from the installation media. First insert the floppy diskette or CD into the relevant drive and mount the media so that the file can be accessed.

DISKETTE

[root@localhost root]# mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy

CD ROM

[root@localhost root]# mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom