Allied Telesis AT-2973T Building the Driver from the Source TAR File, Building the bnx2 Driver

Chapter 6: Installing the Linux Drivers

Building the Driver from the Source TAR File

To configure the network protocol and address, refer to the documentation provided with your operating system.

This procedure describes how to build the bnx2 and bnx2i Linux drivers from the Source TAR file. See the following sections:

“Building the bnx2 Driver” on page 70

“Building the bnx2i Driver” on page 71

Building the bnx2 Driver

To build the bnx2 Linux driver from the Source TAR file, do the following:

1.Create a directory and extract the TAR files to the following directory: tar xvzf netxtreme2-version.tar.gz

2.Build the driver bnx2.ko (or bnx2.o) as a loadable module for the running kernel. Enter the following commands:

cd bnx2-version/src make

3.Test the driver by loading it (if necessary, first unload the existing driver). Enter the following commands:

rmmod bnx2 insmod bnx2.o

modprobe crc32 && insmod bnx2.o or, for Linux 2.6 kernels:

rmmod bnx2 insmod bnx2.ko

4.Load the cnic driver, if applicable. Enter the following command: insmod cnic.ko

5.Install the driver and man page by entering the following command: make install

Note

See the “Installing the Source RPM Package” on page 68 for the location of the installed driver.

To configure the network protocol and address after building the driver, refer to the manuals supplied with your operating system.

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