Perle SPEED1 LE Express 04003140 User Manual

 

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Chapter 2 Installing Drivers and Host Cards

This section tells you how to install host cards, software drivers, and utilities under the Linux 
operating system and includes the following:

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The general procedure for installing and configuring host cards, driver software and 
associated utilities for the Linux operating system is as follows:

1. Install any SPEED LE or SPEED LE Express cards you require into your system. See 

2. Install the SPEED LE Linux drivers onto your system using the procedures described in 

3. Create devices for the required ports using the procedures detailed in 

Your system can now use the SPEED LE serial adaptor cards you have installed.

SPEED LE or SPEED LE Express cards installed on Linux machines use the perle-serial 
driver for Linux. The driver supports the Linux kernel versions 2.4 and 2.6. The kernel header 
files are needed for kernel and 2.4. For the 2.6 kernel, a configuration kernel source tree and 
a set of makefile rules describing how the modules are built is required.

The driver is supplied in both source RPM package format and a compressed tar file. The 
procedure for installation of each format is described in the following sections.