Allied Telesis manual Installing the AT-2931SX BASP TAR Archive

Chapter 4: Installing BACS on a Linux System

Installing the AT-2931SX BASP TAR Archive

Use the procedures in this section to install Linux i386 distributions that are neither Red Hat nor United Linux distributions. Installing the AT- 2931SX BASP TAR archive involves both uncompressing the archive and then installing it.

To uncompress and expand the tar archive, run:

% tar xvfz basplnx-{version}.{arch}.tgz

To install the AT-2931SX BASP TAR archive, perform the following procedure:

1.After extraction, change to the directory where the BASP source files are located.

%cd basplnx-{version}

2.To build a kernel module, "basp.o":

%make

Note

The Make process automatically builds the correct module for different kernel options, for example, symbol versioning and SMP support. Do not define -DMODVERSIONS in the Makefile.

3.To create device file and to copy files:

%make install

4.To update the module reference:

%depmod -a

5.To load the driver:

%insmod basp

6.To set up the teams, see “AT-2931SX BASP Configuration and Startup for Other Linux Distributions” on page 56.

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