Owner's manual

Driver Installation 29
Installing Linux Driver
Use the procedures in this section to install the driver for Linux. The driver is
updated frequently. To ensure that you have the current version of the driver,
download the updated Linux driver from the Dell Support website at
support.dell.com .
Creating a Driver Diskette
Before beginning the installation, copy the drivers from the Service and
Diagnostic Utilities media or download the driver appropriate for Linux from
the Dell Support website at
support.dell.com. This file includes two Red Hat
Package Managers (RPMs) and driver update disk files. The package also
contains the Dynamic Kernel Module Support (DKMS) Red Hat Package
Manager (RPM) file, source code, and release notes.
Refer to the documentation website at support.dell.com for more
information on DKMS.
The package is a zipped tar file. After downloading the package to a Linux
system, perform the following steps.
1
Unzip the package using gunzip.
2 Untar the file using tar -xvf .
3 Use the dd command to create a driver update disk. Use the appropriate
image for the purpose.
dd if=<name of the dd image file> of=/dev/fd0
NOTE: You can create a driver update disk on a Windows system using the
program dcopynt.
NOTE: The output file “of” might be different, depending on how your
operating system maps the floppy driver. The floppy drive does not need to be
mounted in order to execute the “dd” command.
4 Use the diskette for operating system installation as described later in
this section.
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