3Com 3C996B-T Configuration Scripts, Nice Patches, Cp 3c59x.c /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/3c59x.c

7Linux Driver Setup

Configuration Scripts

Both team-sample and team-gec are configuration scripts that follow the same syntax, as follows:

■TEAM_ID: this number uniquely identifies a team.

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TEAM_TYPE: 0 = SLB, 1 = Generic Trunking/GEC/FEC

TEAM_NAME: ascii name of the team

TEAM_PAx_NAME: ASCII name of the physical interface x, where x can be 0 to 7.

■TEAM_PAx_ROLE: role of the physical interface x 0 = Primary, 1 = Hot-standby. This field must be 0 for Generic Trunking/GEC/FEC team.

■TEAM_VAx_NAME: ASCII name of the virtual interface x, where x can be 0 to 63

■TEAM_VAX_VLAN: 802.1p VLAN ID of the virtual interface x. For untagged virtual interface, i.e., without VLAN enable, set it to 0. The valid VLAN ID can be 0 to 4094.

NICE Patches

Also included in this distributions are network device drivers patched with NICE support. These drivers are originally taken from Linux 2.2.16 kernel distribution. To install patched drivers:

1Copy the NICE header file, “nicext.h”, to the Linux kernel include directory as follows: cp /usr/src/basplnx-{version}/nicext.h user/src/linux/include/ linux

where /usr/src is the temp directory you created when you installed the “Advanced Server Features” on page 67.

2Rename the original network device driver under the Linux kernel source tree /usr/src/ linux/drivers/net:

mv /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/3c59x.c /usr/src/linux/drivers/ net/3c9x.orig

3Copy the patched drivers to the Linux kernel network driver source directory /usr/src/ linux/drivers/net:

cp 3c59x.c /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/3c59x.c

4Follow the kernel rebuild instructions to configure kernel support of these drivers as follows:

CD /usr/src/linux make config

5If the patched drivers are configured into kernel, go to step 7. If the patched drivers are configured as module, go to step 6.

6In the case of supporting only a module version of these drivers, it is possible to run the following steps to compile the patched driver, then install them into the proper module directory:

make modules

make modules_install

There is no need to compile the complete kernel, go to step (8).

7Rebuild the kernel to compile these patched drivers, as follows: make dep

make clean make bzImage

8Either reboot the system or unload/load the patched modules. Then run configuration scripts to test the patch.

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