<Ubuntu
Installation of ASUS C100C 10Gb Ethernet card
(This material was copied verbatim from a comment by Madumi, 27
Sep 2017 in www.amazon.com,
reproduced here for easy reference.)
Windows 10 installation was seamless.
Linux (Ubuntu server 16.04) was a pain. Only method ended up
being through "insmod atlantic.ko" see below for details.
Performance so far (connected PC-to-PC without a switch), has
been flawless. I am connecting over 150 feet of cable & can
transfer four hard drives at full speed without any discernible
bottlenecks. highly recommend the card!
Ubuntu server 16.04 installation
- clean install of Ubuntu 16.04.
- install the build-essential package from apt
-
download the Asus 5.0.0.5 driver for the XG-C100C to
/home/USER , unzip the file to reveal the
Atlantic1.5.348.0.tar.bz2 archive, and then unpack it: tar
-xvjf /home/USER/Atlantic1.5.348.0.tar.bz2
-
Navigate to the new /home/USER/Atlantic directory and run:
make , which should then generate an "atlantic.ko" file.
-
Once you have that file in place (check!), edit the network
interfaces file: sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces , and set the
static IP for your card (in this case, it occupied the enp1s0 slot,
you'll need to check which slot it sits in) something like the
following:
auto enp1s0
iface enp1s0 inet static
address 10.10.10.20
netmask 255.255.255.0
-
to do a temporary installation, run: sudo insmod
/home/USER/Atlantic/atlantic.ko (this will only last till a
reboot). This should bring the card to life & you can
test.
-
To finalize your installation (so the driver will persist
after a reboot), run: sudo nano /etc/rc.local , and edit
your rc.local file to include insmod
/home/USER/Atlantic/atlantic.ko , below the #!/bin/sh -e at
the top of the file, and above the exit 0 at the bottom
something like the following:
#!/bin/sh -e #etc
insmod /home/USER/Atlantic/atlantic.ko
exit 0
NB: In my setup, the computer this linux server connected
to had a static IP set to 10.10.10.10/255.255.255.0 and it
was connected directly pc-to-pc with an ordinary cat6
cable.
NB: For the above installation, if you use your home/USER
directory for other items, you might want to place the
Atlantic driver in a different directory than this one...
