INSTALLING NETWORK DRIVERS
speed: connection speed, 0
duplex: duplex mode, 0
3.Assuming the card has been assigned the device name “eth1,” the following command brings the card into an operational state:
#ifconfig eth1 up
4.Next the driver must be bound to an active protocol, almost always TCP/IP, using the following command:
#ifup eth1
Note that this is meaningful only if the system can find a configuration script that contains the necessary network info. A sample is given below.
DEVICE=eth0
USERCTL=no
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=none
BROADCAST=207.200.5.255
NETWORK=207.200.5.0
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
IPADDR=207.200.5.2
Automatic Installation
This section describes how to install the Linux driver so that it is automatically loaded and configured at boot time. The following description is based on the Red Hat 5.1 distribution, but it can be easily ported to other distributions as well.
Note: Before automatically loading the driver at boot time, be sure that the system will function correctly after the driver has been loaded manually.
