Specifications

Chapter 3 - Driver Installation

LINUX: Copying and untarring the driver from a

floppy

The ISI driver

.tar

file can be copied from a DOS formatted floppy

using the 'mcopy' command if the 'mtools' have been installed. Issue

'mcopy a:isilinux.tar <destination folder>' to copy the isilinux.tar ( or

current driver name) file to the destination folder. As an alternative,

the floppy can be manually mounted and the file copied to the

required destination folder.

NOTE: To read from a DOS formatted floppy, a kernel with support for the

FAT file system (either statically linked in the kernel or as modules) is

required.

Steps for copying the driver from a floppy:

1. Linux floppy disks are in ext2 format.

2. Insert Linux driver in drive A: and mount floppy drive.

> mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy

3. Copy files from floppy to a temporary directory on hard drive.

> mkdir /isi

> cd /isi

> cp /mnt/floppy/kernel_2.2.x/* /isi

After you have copied the installation tar file to a folder, use the

command 'tar xvf isilinux.tar' to untar (unzip or de-compress) the

installation files in that folder.

LINUX: Driver installation and loading

Execute the 'Install' script to build the driver and to copy the driver and

firmware files to the required folder.

> cd /isi

> ./Install

For ISI4608, which are equipped with the ISA-type bus, the

installation script requires the user to type in the I/O address and the