Computer Hardware User Manual

10 Sun Dual 10GbE XFP PCI Express Card User’s Guide • May 2010
Downloading and Installing the Driver
on a Linux Platform
1. Login to your system.
2. Download the driver RPM for your operating system:
http://www.sun.com/download/products.xml?id=44eb1efd
For example:
3. Discover the network interfaces before adding the package by using the
ifconfig -a command:
4. Use the rpm tool to install the driver on SuSe and RedHat Linux.
nxge-1.0-1.x86_64.rpm
# ifconfig -a |grep eth
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:4F:20:F1:DC
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:4F:20:F1:DD
eth2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:4F:20:F1:DE
eth3 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:4F:20:F1:DF
# rpm -ivh /tmp/RHEL4U4-large/RPMS/x86_64/nxge-1.0-1.x86_64.rpm
Preparing... ###########################################
1:nxge ###########################################