\HELP\LINUX\LINUX.TXT NETGEAR FA310TX Fast Ethernet PCI Adapter ----------------------------------------- LINUX Driver Installation Overview ---------------------------------- Preamble -------- 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, as well as PNIC and MXIC chips. This program was originally written and maintained by Donald Becker who may be reached as becker@CESDIS.gsfc.nasa.gov, 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 FA310TX series of Fast Ethernet PCI adapter cards. For customer support, please call your respective local Netgear technical support. Getting Started --------------- This installation guide describes the installation procedures of the two most popular versions of Linux: RedHat Linux 5.2 and Slackware Linux 3.6. With either Linux variation, you can install it into the Monolithic Kernel or the Modular Kernel. RedHat Linux 5.2 ---------------- With either the adapter cards based on the DEC 21140 controller (versions C1, C2 or C6) or the new NETGEAR cards (revisions D1, D2 or D3), the "Digital 21040 (Tulip)" driver included in the software can be used. With C1, C2 or C6, the RedHat installation software automatically detects and points to the proper driver. With revisions D1, D2, or D3, you must manually instruct Linux to use the "Digital 21040 (Tulip)" driver under the "Which card to support" network window. However, the Tulip driver (version 0.89H) included in RedHat Linux 5.2 configures the transmit threshold of the revisions D1, D2, and D3 cards to Store-and-forward. To improve the network performance of the adapter card under Linux, it is recommended you use the Linux driver provided in the floppy (version 0.89K) or the latest Tulip driver (0.90Q) down- loadable from the following web site: http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/tulip.html Installation Procedure for Modular Kernel ----------------------------------------- 1. During installation of Linux, make sure that the "C Development" selection is choosen under "Component to Install" window. This will copy the C compiler into the system for compiling the driver. 2. Also 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. Insert the floppy disk with the FA310 driver, and mount the disk into the system with the following command: mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt 4. Copy the Linux-related files from the disk into the system hard disk with the following command. Four files will be copies: "cctulip", "tulip.c", "Copying", and "linux.txt". cp /mnt/linux/*.* . 5. Compile tulip.c by executing the "cctulip" command at the prompt. The following command will be executed. gcc -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/net/inet -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O6 -c tulip.c 6. Find the names of the files in the /lib/modules directory. You might see the following directories. eg. "2.0.36-0.7" and "preferred". 7. Copy the newly compiled tulip.o into the latest kernel's modules. cp tulip.o /lib/modules/2.0.36-0.7/net/tulip.o 8. Reboot the system. 9. You can check if the driver is properly activating the card using the "dmesg" command right after system bootup. Installation Procedure for Monolithic Kernel -------------------------------------------- 1. cp tulip.c /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/tulip.c 2. /user/src/linux# make config set the following a. EISA, VLB, PCI and on board controllers (CONFIG_NET_EISA) [N/y/?] Y b. DECchip Tulip (dc21x4x) PCI support (CONFIG_DEC_ELCP) [N/y/m/?] Y 3. Rebuild and install new kernel and reboot. a. make dep b. make clean c. make zImage or make zlilo Slackware 3.6 ---------------- With either the adapter cards based on the DEC 21140 controller (versions C1, C2 or C6) or the cards based on the Lite-on PNIC controller (versions D1, D2 or D3), the "Digital 21040 (Tulip)" driver included in the driver disk (version 0.89K) can be used. The latest original Tulip drive is also downloadable from the following web site: http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/tulip.html Installation Procedure for Modular Kernel ----------------------------------------- Slackware automatically install the compiler into the system, there is no need to alter the default installation procedure to add additional components. 1. Insert the floppy disk with the FA310 driver, and mount the disk into the system with the following command: mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt 2. Copy the Linux drivers from the disk into the system hard disk with the following command. Four files will be copies: cctulip, tulip.c, Copying, linux.txt. cp /mnt/linux/*.* . 3. Compile tulip.c by executing the "cctulip" command at the prompt. The following command will be executed. gcc -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/net/inet -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O6 -c tulip.c 4. Find the names of the files in the /lib/modules directory. You might see the following directories. eg. "2.0.35" and "preferred". 5. Copy the newly compiled tulip.o into the latest kernel's modules. cp tulip.o /lib/modules/2.0.35/net/tulip.o 6. Edit the "rc.modules" file in the /etc/rc.d directory with the following command: vi /etc/rc.d/rc.modules 7. Search the following line: "# /sbin/modprobe tulip" 8. Remove the "#" character at the beginning of the line and save the file. " /sbin/modprobe tulip" 9. Update kernel's module dependencies with the following command: /sbin/depmod -a 10. Reboot the system. 11. You can check if the driver is properly activating the card using the "dmesg" command right after system bootup. Installation Procedure for Monolithic Kernel -------------------------------------------- 1. cp tulip.c /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/tulip.c 2. /user/src/linux# make config set the following a. EISA, VLB, PCI and on board controllers (CONFIG_NET_EISA) [N/y/?] Y b. DECchip Tulip (dc21x4x) PCI support (CONFIG_DEC_ELCP) [N/y/m/?] Y 3. Rebuild and install new kernel and reboot. a. make dep b. make clean c. make zImage or make zlilo NOTE: The latest testing version of the driver should compile with all 1.2.*, 1.3.* development tools, 2.0.* and 2.1.* kernels.Download Driver Pack
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