Installation guide

Network Adapter Card Installation Guide - Book II

Installing Linux Driver on a AT-2916T, AT-2970, or AT-2971

Series Adapters

Overview The sk98lin driver installation script supports the Allied Telesyn AT-2971

and AT-2916 Series Adapters. It has been tested with Linux on Intel/x86

systems.

Required FIles The Linux kernel source is available in directory ‘/usr/src/linux’ and the

compiler tools (for example, gcc, make etc).

Installation

Guidelines

This script will automatically compile and load the sk98lin driver on your

host system. Before performing both compilation and loading, it is

necessary to shutdown any device using the sk98lin kernel module and

to unload the old sk98lin kernel module. This script will do this

automatically per default. If you want to shutdown and unload the old

sk98lin kernel module manually, run the script in the EXPERT mode.

Plug a card into your machine. Without a card you are not able to check

the full driver functionality.

Be sure to use the same kernel source and kernel version. For instance, it

might be that you run kernel version 2.4.20 but the header files the

kernel module will be compiled with refer to kernel version 2.4.21. If you

do not have the same kernel version, install the sources and compile a

new kernel. You cannot mix different kernel versions.

Installing the

Driver

To install the newest Linux driver, perform the following procedure:

1. Login as root.

2. Unpack the driver installation package using the command:

# tar xfvj install-???.tar.bz2

# bunzip2 -c install-???.tar.bz2 | tar xfv -

3. To start the driver build process, go to the directory DriverInstall

and start the build process with the following command:

# cd DriverInstall

# ./install.sh

4. Choose your favorite installation method.

5. The driver will be compiled and installed.