TN40XX draivera instalēšana tīkla kartei, kuras pamatā ir Tehuti Networks TN4010 mikroshēma, Linux OS

TN40XX draivera instalēšana tīkla kartei, kuras pamatā ir Tehuti Networks TN4010 mikroshēma, Linux OS

Network cards based on the TN4010 chip are becoming more widespread. They are found in the following products:

If you become the owner of this card, but after inserting it into the server, you do not observe the NIC, then the OS does not have the driver necessary for its operation. For MS Windows, the manufacturer provides drivers in a compiled format, and for Linux only in the form of source codes.

At first glance, it might seem that getting this card to work in Linux would be problematic. In reality, everything is done elementarily using DKMS - a support system for dynamic kernel modules.

Let's take a look at how to build and install a driver for TN4010 in 1 minute. Further commands ran on Ubuntu 18.04.

Installing DKMS

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt install dkms

Obtaining, building and installing the driver

# get the sources, check the latest release on github among the available
# branches, currently using release / tn40xx-v003
#
# https://github.com/acooks/tn40xx-driver
# 
sudo git clone -b release/tn40xx-003 https://github.com/acooks/tn40xx-driver.git /usr/src/tn40xx-003
# add the module
sudo dkms add -m tn40xx -v 003
# compile the module
sudo dkms install -m tn40xx -v 003

Checking module loading

sudo modprobe tn40xx
# check that the module is loaded
sudo lsmod | grep tn40xx

After completing this action, you should have a new network card. In our case, it was named enp2s0. Card has been tested to work with HP DAC cable and HP6600-24x switch.