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NETGEAR FA511 CardBus Mobile Adapter
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LINUX Driver Installation Overview
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Preamble
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This software may be used and distributed according to the terms
of the GNU Public License, incorporated herein by reference.
This driver is for the Digital "Tulip" ethernet adapter interface.
It should work with most DEC 21x4x-based chips/ethercards. This
device driver also supports work-alike chips from ADMtek, ASIX,
LiteOn, MXIC, STmicro, and relabeled PNIC chips from LinkSys and
Netgear.
This program was originally written and maintained by Donald Becker
who may be reached as becker@scyld.com, or C/O Center of
Excellence in Space Data and Information Sciences Code 930.5,
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt MD 20771.
The program is further modified and customized for use in the
NETGEAR FA511 CardBus Mobile Adapter. For customer support,
please call your respective local Netgear technical support.
Getting Started
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This installation guide describes the installation procedures of the
most popular versions of Linux: RedHat Linux 6.0/6.1/6.2/7.0 and
With other Linux variation, you can install it into the
Monolithic Kernel or the Modular Kernel.
Installation Procedure:
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Important: For RedHat 6.0, 6.1, 6.2 users: please upgrade PCMCIA-CS to
version 3.1.19 (Please see note at the bottom for how to upgrade to
version 3.1.19)
1. During installation of Linux, make sure that the "Development"
selectionare (or C Development and Development Libraries for
Redhat 6.0) and "Kernel Development" selectionare and "Workstation"
selectionare choosen under "Component to Install" window. This
will copy the C compiler and kernel development component into
the system for compiling the driver. For RedHat 6.0, 6.1 user, we
recommend you to upgrade your system to 6.2 or 7.0.
2. Also in the Network Configuration window during installation, you
will be asked if you want to configure LAN (not dailup) networking
for your installed system. Answer YES.
3. Login as root.
4. Insert the Installation CDROM, and mount the disk into the system with
the following command: mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
5. Copy the linux drivers from the CDROM into the system harddrive with
the following command. Five files will be copied: tulip.c, pci-scan.h,
kerncomp.h, tulip_cb.o, makefile.
Command: cp /mnt/cdrom/linux/redhatx.x/* .
6. Compile tulip.c by executing "make" command at the prompt.
The following command will be executed.
for redhat 6.x
gcc -DCARDBUS -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O6 \
-c tulip.c -o tulip_cb.o -I/usr/src/linux/pcmcia-cs-3.1.19/include
for redhat 7.0
gcc -DCARDBUS -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O6 \
-c tulip.c -o tulip_cb.o -I/usr/src/linux/pcmcia-cs-3.1.19/include \
-I/usr/src/linux/include
7. Find the names of the files in the /lib/modules directory. you might see
the following directory. eg "2.2.14"...
8. Copy the newly compiled tulip.o into the latest kernel's modules.
for redhat 6.0
cp tulip_cb.o /lib/modules/2.2.5-15/net/tulip_cb.o
cp tulip_cb.o /lib/modules/2.2.5-15/pcmcia/tulip_cb.o
for redhat 6.1
cp tulip_cb.o /lib/modules/2.2.12-20/net/tulip_cb.o
cp tulip_cb.o /lib/modules/2.2.12-20/pcmcia/tulip_cb.o
for redhat 6.2
cp tulip_cb.o /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/net/tulip_cb.o
cp tulip_cb.o /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/pcmcia/tulip_cb.o
for redhat 7.0
cp tulip_cb.o /lib/modules/2.2.16-22/net/tulip_cb.o
cp tulip_cb.o /lib/modules/2.2.16-22/pcmcia/tulip_cb.o
9. Use vi or emac editor to append the following line into
/etc/pcmcia/config
card "NETGEAR FA511 CardBus Mobile Adapter"
manfid 0x022d, 0x511A
bind "tulip_cb"
10. reboot system.
11. You can check if the driver is properly activating the card using
the "dmesg" command right after system bootup.
***Note***
How to upgrade to PCMCIA-CS-3.1.19 from old version on RedHat 6.0
1. Find the PCMCIA-CS-3.1.19 package pcmcia-cs-3.1.19.tar.gz on
CD-ROM, you can also find it from website ftp://ftp.tux.org/util/pcmcia .
2. Copy pcmcia-cs-3.1.19.tar.gz to the directory /usr/src/linux
3. Uncompress the package using the following command
tar xvfz pcmcia-cs-3.1.19.tar.gz
this will generate the directory ./pcmcia-cs-3.1.19
4. Change to the directory pcmcia-cs-3.1.19
5. Execute the following commands
make clean
make config
make all
make install
these will upgrade PCMCIA-CS to version 3.1.19
6. Execute the following commands to restart PCMCIA service
/etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia stop
/etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start
Download Driver Pack
After your driver has been downloaded, follow these simple steps to install it.
Expand the archive file (if the download file is in zip or rar format).
If the expanded file has an .exe extension, double click it and follow the installation instructions.
Otherwise, open Device Manager by right-clicking the Start menu and selecting Device Manager.
Find the device and model you want to update in the device list.
Double-click on it to open the Properties dialog box.
From the Properties dialog box, select the Driver tab.
Click the Update Driver button, then follow the instructions.
Very important: You must reboot your system to ensure that any driver updates have taken effect.
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