****************************************************************************** * Accton Technology Corp * * Accton EN1407T/EN1408T Giga-bit Ethernet Adapter * * Linux Server Driver Installation Information (Kernel 2.4.x) * * * * Copyright (C) 2000-2001 Accton Technology Corp. * * All Rights Reserved. * ****************************************************************************** Contents: --------- A) Loading and Configuring the Driver manually for RedHat 6.X or 7.X B) Automated installation for RedHat 6.X or 7.X A) Loading and Configuring the Driver manually for RedHat 6.X or 7.X ===================================================================== 1) Logging into the Linux system as supervisor (root), then enter Maintenance mode. (Note: Make sure that the current directory is "/") Please follow the following steps to uncompress the package file: #cd tmp (and insert the floppy in the proper drive, i.e. a:) #mkdir temp #cd temp #mcopy a:/linux/2_4/2_4_acc.zip #unzip 2_4_acc.zip #cd 2_4 Now the installation directory is ready for use. 2) The following sections describe configuration of the driver. It is suggested that you should carry out these instructions in a singler-user environment. To load the Linux driver module simply run the command: #insmod en140xt.o You can also specify command line parameters for the driver, such as: #insmod en140xt.o MaxTxDesc=150 MaxRxDesc=150 RxBufSize=2048 The various tunable parameters are: a) MaxTxDesc This is the maximum number of transmit descriptors that will be allocated. This value should be atleast 100. The default value is 200. b) MaxRxDesc This is the maximum number of receive descriptors that will be allocated. This value should be atleast 100. The default value is 200. c) RxBufSize This is the size of the receive descriptors that are allocated. The default value is 2048. It should be 2048 for good performances. The values of this should be 4096 when using jumbo frames to get better performances. d) SetAutoNeg This is the flag to request Auto Negotiation. A value of 1 will enable auto negotiation and a value of 0 indicates disabling auto negotiation , in this scenario the MediaSpeed can be set appropriately to force the Link speed to the desired value. Default value is 1. e) MediaSpeed This value indicates the MediaSpeed to which the NIC should be forced to, in the case of Auto Negotiation being disabled. This value assumes significance only when SetAutoNeg = 0. The default is 1000. f) NCBit If IEEE Compliance then NCBit should have value 1 else 0. Default value is 1. g) DuplexMode This value indicates the duplex mode ( full/half ). A value of 1 indicates full duplex mode and 0 indicates half duplex mode. 3) To try jumbo frames, the mtu size can be increased using the ifconfig utility, as follows #ifconfig <interface-name> mtu <mtu-size>: #ifconfig eth0 mtu 3000 The "RxBufSize" tunable parameter should have a value of 4096 to get better performance when using jumbo frames. <mtu-size> can be increased upto 4000 bytes for sane operation. 4) Assuming the NIC has been assigned the device name eth0, the following command brings the NIC into an operational state: #ifconfig eth0 up 5) Next the driver must be bound to an active protocol, almost always TCP/IP , using the following command: #ifup eth0 Note: that this is meaningful only if the system can find a configuration script that contains the necessary network info. A sample will be given below. Configuration script sample. Here a sample of a simple configuration script: 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 B) Automated installation for RedHat 6.X or 7.X ================================================ This section describes how to install the driver in such a way that is automatically loaded and configured at boot time. Before automatically loading the driver at boot time, ensure that the system will function correctly after the driver has been load manually. The following description is based on a Red Hat 7.0 distribution, but it can easily ported to other distributions as well. 1) Logging into the Linux system as supervisor (root), then enter Maintenance mode. (Note: Make sure that the current directory is "/") Please follow the following steps to uncompress the package file: #cd tmp (and insert the floppy in the proper drive, i.e. a:) #mkdir temp #cd temp #mcopy a:/linux/2_4/2_4_acc.zip #unzip 2_4_acc.zip #cd 2_4 Now the installation directory is ready for use. 2) Copy en140xt.o to the network modules directory, typically /lib/modules/2.4.x/kernel/drivers/net #cp ./en140xt.o /lib/modules/2.4.x/kernel/drivers/net 3) Locate the boot module configuration file, most commonly conf.modules in the /etc directory. Add the following line: alias ethx en1407t, where ethx will be eth0 if you don't have any other adapters, eth1 if you already have one and so on, and the parameters are the ones discussed in on previous paragraph. 4) Find where the network configuration scripts are, normally the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts directory and create a configuration script (sample discusses above) named ifcfg-ethx that contains network info. #cd /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts #vi ifcfg-ethx(make a configuration script file) 5) Reboot the Linux system to initialize the driver fuction. #reboot Trademarks : =============================================================================== All trademarks or brand names mentioned are properties of their respective compaies. =============================================================================== === End of File ===Download Driver Pack
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From the Properties dialog box, select the Driver tab.
Click the Update Driver button, then follow the instructions.
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