Installing Tg3 Driver Software - Dell Broadcom NetXtreme Family of Adapters User Manual

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Linux Driver Software: Broadcom NetXtreme 57XX User Guide
Limitations
Packaging

Installing TG3 Driver Software

Network Installations
Patching PCI Files (Optional)
Unloading/Removing the TG3 Driver
Driver Messages
Teaming with Channel Bonding
Limitations
The current version of the adapter driver has been tested on the latest Red Hat, SuSE, and other Linux distributions for i386,
ia64, and x86_64 CPU architectures using 2.6.x kernels. The driver has been tested up to kernel version 2.6.13. The driver
should work on other little endian or big endian CPU architectures, but only very limited testing has been done on some of
these machines. The Makefile may have to be modified to include architecture-specific compile switches, and some minor
changes in the source files may also be required. On these machines, patching the driver into the kernel is recommended.
Packaging
The Linux TG3 driver is released in the following packaging formats (file names):
Source RPM (tg3-version.3dkms.src.rpm)
Source RPM (tg3-version.3dkms.noarch.rpm)
Supplemental (tg3_sup-version.tar.gz)
Compressed tar (tg3-version.tar.gz)
Identical source files to build the driver are included in both RPM and TAR source packages. The tar file contains additional
utilities such as patches and driver disk images for network installation.
Installing TG3 Driver Software
Installing the DKMS RPM Driver Package
Installing the Source RPM Package
Building the Driver from the Source TAR File
Installing the DKMS RPM Driver Package
Dynamic Kernel Module Support (DKMS) is designed to simplify the rebuilding of modules whenever you upgrade the kernel.
This rebuilding is accomplished by creating a framework where a kernel-dependent module source can reside.
To install the DKMS RPM driver package
1. Download the DKMS binary RPM from
dkms -version.noarch.rpm
2. Install the DKMS binary RPM package.
rpm -ivh dkms-version.src.rpm
3. Install the DKMS RPM driver package.
http://linux.dell.com/dkms/.