Installation Guide

Hardware Requirements

M-VIA 1.0 supports the following network interface cards (NICs):

If you do not have one of the NICs listed above, you can use the the M-VIA loopback device within a single node.

Kernel Requirements

Installation

Module Dependencies

If you want to load the kernel modules manually, then ignore steps 7 through 9, above. If you wish to load modules using insmod, you should be aware of the following dependencies:

Thus, to use just the M-VIA loopback device you would run, from the modules directory:

 insmod via_ka.o
 insmod via_lo.o

To use the M-VIA eepro100 driver you would run, from the modules directory:

 insmod via_ka.o
 insmod via_ering.o
 insmod via_eepro100.o

If you use modprobe to load modules, then these dependencies are handled automatically.


M-VIA 1.0. Fri, 17 Sep 1999 09:13:43 -0700.
Copyright (C) 1998,1999 Berkeley Lab.