User's Guide (1.0)

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Safety Information and Technical Speciﬁ cations

2. Untar/unzip archive:

tar zxf ixgbe-x.x.x.tar.gz

3. Change to the driver src directory:

cd ixgbe-x.x.x/src/

4. Compile the driver module:

make install

The binary will be installed as:

/lib/modules/[KERNEL_VERSION]/kernel/drivers/net/ixgbe/

ixgbe.[k]o

The install locations listed above are the default locations. They might not be correct

for certain Linux distributions. For more information, see the ldistrib.txt ﬁ le included

in the driver tar.

NOTE: IXGBE_NO_LRO is a compile time ﬂ ag. The user can enable it at compile

time to remove support for LRO from the driver. The ﬂ ag is used by adding `CFLAGS_

EXTRA=-”DIXGBE_NO_LRO”` to the make ﬁ le when it’s being compiled.

make CFLAGS_EXTRA=”-DIXGBE_NO_LRO” install

5. Load the module:

For kernel 2.6.x, use the modprobe command:

modprobe ixgbe <parameter>=<value>

For 2.6 kernels, the insmod command can be used if the full path to the driver

module is speciﬁ ed. For example:

insmod /lib/modules/<KERNEL VERSION>/kernel/drivers/net/ixg-

be/ixgbe.ko

In addition when using 2.6 based kernels make sure that older ixgbe drivers are

removed from the kernel, before loading the new module. To do this, use:

rmmod ixgbe; modprobe ixgbe