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Intelligent NIC Getting Started Guide — NDA Required
NetXen, Inc.
3. Quick-Start Installation Instructions
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Quick-Start Installation Instructions
This section is for users already familiar with the Windows or Linux operating systems.
This process provides only the general steps necessary for installing the NetXen NIC
hardware, as well as Windows and Linux drivers. For those user’s requiring more detailed
information, refer to Section 4 below.
If a NetXen iNIC card is already installed on the system and a driver and/or firmware
update is required, refer to the procedure in
Table 4
below.
Table 3 Quick Start Instructions — New NIC Driver Installation
NetXen NIC Hardware Installation
Windows Driver Installation
Linux Driver Installation
Pre-Installation
1. Verify the system meets the requirements
described in Section 2.
2. Power down the system.
Installing the NetXen NIC Adapter
1. Insert the NetXen NIC adapter card into an
available PCI Express slot.
2. Connect the appropriate cables to the
board.
3. Power on the system.
Driver Installation
1. Copy all of the provided NIC driver files
to a directory.
2. From the Device Manager, scan for new
hardware.
3. When prompted to connect to Windows
Update, Click
No, not at this time
, then
click
Next
.
4. In the next window, click
Install from a
list of specific location
and then click
Next
.
5. Select
Search for the test driver in these
locations
. Select
Include this location in
the search
.
6. Provide the path to the directory where the
driver NXP2NIC.sys is located. For 32-
bit operating systems, choose the
x86
directory. For 64-bit operating systems,
choose the
x64
directory.
NIC Card Configuration
1. Open the
Network Connections
window
from the
Control Panel
.
2. Verify that NetXen NIC adapter icon says
Connected
. If not, right-click on the
NIC
Adapter
icon and select
Properties
, then
assign the IP and subnet addresses and
click
OK
.
Prerequisite to Driver Installation
1. Configure the Linux system with at least 1
GB of memory.
Driver Installation (tar.gz)
1. Untar the file, build, install, and load the
driver:
tar xzf <driver file>.tar.gz
cd <directory>
make
make install
modprobe nx_nic
NIC Card Configuration
1. Identify the NetXen Ethernet interface:
ethtool -i eth[x]
2. Assign an IP address:
ifconfig eth[x] [IP address]
Driver Installation (rpm)
1. Install the RPM as follows
a
:
rpm -i nx_nic-[version].src.rpm
2. Create the binary RPM as follows:
rpmbuild -tb /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/
nx_nic-[version].tar.gz
, (
Redhat
) or
rpmbuild -tb /usr/src/packages/SOURCES/
nx_nic-[version].tar.gz
(
SuSE
)
3. Install the binary as follows:
rpm -i /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/x86_64/
nx_nic-[Version]-1.x86_64.rpm
(Redhat),
or
rpm -i /usr/src/packages/RPMS/i586/
nx_nic-[Version]-1.i586.rpm
(SuSE)
a. 3.1.44 is an example of [version]
