Use this information to install the LAN over USB driver
for Linux.
Current versions of Linux, such as RHEL5 Update 2 and SLES10 Service
Pack 2, support the LAN over USB interface by default. This interface
is detected and displayed during the installation of these operating
systems. When you configure the device, use a static IP address of
169.254.95.130 with a subnet mask of 255.255.0.0.
Older Linux distributions might not detect
the LAN over USB interface, and might require manual configuration.
For information about configuring LAN over USB on specific Linux distributions,
see the IBM white paper
Transitioning to UEFI and IMM on the
IBM web site.
Note: Changes are made periodically to the IBM® Web
site. The actual procedure might vary slightly from what is described
in this document.
- Go to http://www.ibm.com/systems/support/.
- Under Product support, click BladeCenter®.
- Under Popular links, click Publications lookup.
- From the Product family menu, select BladeCenter HS22V and
click Continue.
The IMM LAN over USB interface requires that the
usbnet and
cdc_ether drivers
be loaded. If the drivers have not been installed, use
modprobe to
install them. When these drivers are loaded, the IMM USB network interface
shows up as a network device in the operating system. To discover
the name that the operating system has assigned to the IMM USB network
interface, type:
dmesg | grep -i cdc ether
The
interface is configured with
ifconfig to have an
IP address in the range 169.254.
xxx.xxx. For example:
ifconfig IMM_device_name 169.254.1.102 netmask 255.255.0.0
This
interface is configured to come up with an IP address in the 169.254.
xxx.xxx range
each time that the operating system is booted.