******************************************************************* * ACCTON TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION * * ACCTON EN1407-SX Cheetah Gigabit adapter * * LINUX UNIX STREAM DRIVER * * * * Copyright (C) 1999 Accton Technology Corporation * * All Rights Reserved. * ******************************************************************* The unix driver contained in the directory \linux is for the following PCI Ethernet adapter: Accton EN1407-SX Cheetah Gigabit Adapter Contents: --------- A.) Rebuild the EN1407 Linux driver B.) Loading and Configuring the Driver manually for RedHat 5.X or 6.X C.) Automated installation for RedHat 5.X or 6.X A.) Rebuild the EN1407 Linux driver ==================================== The reason we distribute the source code to the Linux driver instead of the binary executable is so the user can compile it for the version of the Linux kernel they have installed. This is necessary for the following reasons: 1) There are a several of Linux kernel versions in widespread use, 2) Binary compatibility among the different Linux kernel versions is not guaranteed by (or for that matter a goal of) Linux So if you can access network after the EN1407 driver installed,please rebuild the source code again. Please follow the steps below to rebuild the new driver object code, 1. Copy the source code to a temporary directory, for example /tmp, $mcopy a:linux/* /tmp 2. Rebuild the driver using the following command, $make 3. Now, you have the new driver object code in the /tmp directory. You can go to section B or C, to install the new driver. B.)Loading and Configuring the Driver manually for RedHat 5.X or 6.X ======================================================================== 1. Log into the UNIX system as supervisor (root) and enter Maintenance mode. (Note: Make sure that the current directory is "/" using UNIX command - pwd.) Please follow the following steps to uncompress the package file: # cd /tmp (and insert the floppy in the proper drive, i.e. a:) # mcopy a:/linux/en1407.o ./en1407sx # cd en1407sx 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 EN1407-SX Device Driver module simply run the command: # insmod en1407.o You can also specify command line parameters for the driver, such as: insmod en1407.o mtu=9014 tx_threshold=700 The following command line parameters are supported: mtu : packet size tx_mode : transmission method, 1 pio,2 busmaster (default) tx_threshold: PDL/PDC threshold, default 700 rx_mode : 1 pio, 2 PDL (default), 4 PDC speed : connection speed,0 auto-negotiate (default),10/100/1000 Bps. duplex : duplex mode, 0 auto-negotiate (default), "half" half duplex, "full" full duplex 3. Assuming the NIC has been assigned the device name eth1, the following command brings the NIC 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 will be given below. Configuration script sample Here a sample of a simple configuration script: DEVICE=eth1 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 C).Automated installation for RedHat 5.X or 6.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 5.1 distribution, but it can easily ported to other distributions as well. 1. Log into the UNIX system as supervisor (root) and enter Maintenance mode. (Note: Make sure that the current directory is "/" using UNIX command - pwd.) Please follow the following steps to uncompress the package file: # cd /tmp (and insert the floppy in the proper drive, i.e. a:) # mcopy a:/linux/en1407.o ./en1407sx # cd en1407sx Now the installation directory is ready for use. 2. Copy en1407.o to the network modules directory, typically /lib/modules/2.0.x/net # cp ./en1407.o /lib/modules/2.0-x/net 3. Locate the boot module configuration file, most commonly conf.modules in the /etc directory. Add the following line: alias ethx en1407 , 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. 3. Find where the network configuration scripts are,normally the /etc/sysconfig /network-scripts directory and create a configuration script(sample discussed above) named ifcfg-ethx that contains network info. # cd /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts # vi ifcfg-ethx(make a configuration script file) 4. Reboot the Unix system to initialize the driver fuction. # reboot TRADEMARKS ========== All Tademarks or Brand names mentioned are properties of their respective companies. == End of File ==Download Driver Pack
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