Hardware & Ethernet Driver Installation & Configuration

 

1. Insert the D100 PCI/PCIe card into the system PCI slot and boot your Linux system.
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2. Depending on your kernel:
   a. The Broadcom or Micrel kernel ethernet driver will automatically load and
         additional ethernet device will appear in: 
         --> cat /proc/net/dev    (proceed to step 5 in this case)
   OR
   
   b. The kernel does not support Broadcom or Micrel drivers.
        Drivers will have to be compiled and installed manually as shown in the following step
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3. Installing Broadcom/Micrel Driver Manually (case: step 2b)
   Run this step only if the kernel does not support the above Ethernet drivers.
   
   --> cd sng-tc-<ver>/server/eth_driver
   --> ./install.sh 
          The install script will auto detect Broadcom & Micrel support. 
          If drivers are not found it will try to build them for the currently running kernel.
      
          The build steps below will be automatically executed by the install.sh script.     
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          For Broadcom                                    For Micrel
          --> Latest Driver tg3-3.116j
          --> cd tg3                                          --> cd   ks8842_pci
          --> make                                           --> make
          --> make install                                 --> make install

• Note: the contents of the following chart will be covered by the install.sh script and is presented for FYI purposes only

Broadcom driver (tg3) detection in available driver list ->  modprobe -l  | grep tg3  If Broadcom driver exists it should have loaded on boot up. -> lsmod | grep tg3 If Broadcom driver is loaded then proceed to configure the ethX device Load Broadcom driver into the kernel -> modprobe tg3                (load tg3 driver) -> lsmod | grep tg3             (confirm tg3 driver is in loaded list) -> tail -f /var/log/messages  (confirm tg3 driver has loaded ) -> cat /proc/net/dev           (confirm new eth device is available)

Micrel driver (ks8842) detection in available driver list ->  modprobe -l  | grep ks8842_pci If Micrel driver exists it should have loaded on boot up. -> lsmod | grep ks8842_pci If Micrel driver is loaded then proceed to configure the ethX device Load Micrel driver into the kernel -> modprobe ks8842_pci     (load ks8842_pci driver) -> lsmod | grep ks8842_pci (confirm ks8842_pci driver is in loaded list) -> tail -f /var/log/messages  (confirm ks8842_pci driver has loaded ) -> cat /proc/net/dev           (confirm new eth device is available)

 

    4.  Configuring ethernet devices and assigning IP addresses
* Note this step is distro-dependent

RedHat/Fedora/CentOS
--> run: system-config-network
--> Select new eth device created on eth driver module load
--> Specify a private IP address that is on different subnet than your local LAN.           
      eg: 10.1.1.1  netmask 255.255.255.0   
--> Leave gateway ip empty 

To apply network settings run:
--> /etc/init.d/network restart

If there are more than one D100 devices in the machine, each D100 eth device must have its own subnet IP.
Eg: D100 card1 - IP 10.1.1.1
      D100 card2 - IP 10.1.2.1