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The Broadcom® NetXtreme™ 10/100/1000 network adapter card enables you to connect
your system to a Gigabit Ethernet network. This card incorporates technology that transfers
data at a maximum rate of one gigabit per second.
This document contains the following sections:
• Installing the adapter card
• Removing the adapter card
• Updating drivers
Installing the Adapter Card
The system has the capacity for one, low-profile PCI expansion card (see "Installing an
Expansion Card" in your Installation and Troubleshooting Guide).
CAUTION: Before you perform this procedure, you must turn off the system and
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disconnect it from its power source. For more information, see "Safety First—For
You and Your System" in "Troubleshooting Your System" in your Installation and
Troubleshooting Guide.
1 Turn off the system, including any attached peripherals, and disconnect the system
from the electrical outlet.
2 Remove the cover (see "Removing and Replacing the System Cover" in your
Installation and Troubleshooting Guide).
/K CAUTION: See "Protecting Against Electrostatic Discharge" in the safety
instructions in your System Information Aozumeni.
3 Open the expansion-card latch and remove the filler bracket.
O NOTICE: Keep this bracket in case you need to remove the expansion card. Instaiiing a fiiier
bracket over an empty expansion siot is necessary to maintain Federai Communications
Commission (FCC) certification of the system. The brackets aiso keep dust and dirt out of the
system and aid in proper cooiing and airfiow inside the system.
- Without removing the riser card, insert the card-edge connector firmly into the
expansion-card connector on the riser card until the card is fully seated
(see Figure 1-1).
5 Close the expansion-card latch (see Figure 1-1).
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Figure 1-1. Installing the Adapter Card
6 Replace the system cover, and then reconnect the system and peripherals to a power
source.
7 Connect an Ethernet cable to the card’s connector on the outside of the system.
8 Turn on the system.
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Removing the Adapter Card
CAUTION: Before you perform this procedure, you must turn off the system and
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disconnect it from its power source. For more information, see "Safety First—For
You and Your System" in "Troubleshooting Your System" in your Installation and
Troubleshooting Guide.
1 Turn off the system, ineluding any attaehed peripherals, and diseonneet the system
from the eleetrieal outlet.
2 Diseonneet any eables eonneeted to the eard.
3 Remove the eover (see "Removing and Replaeing the System Cover" in your
Installation and Troubleshooting Guide).
- Open the expansion-eard lateh.
5 Grasp the expansion eard and earefully pull it away from the riser-eard eonneetor (see
Figure 1-1).
6 If you are removing the eard permanently, install a metal filler braeket over the empty
eard-slot opening.
NOTICE: Install Ing a filler bracket over an empty expansion slot Is necessary to maintain
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) certification of the system. The brackets also keep
dust and dirt out of the system and aid in proper cooling and airflow inside the system.
7 Close the expansion-eard lateh.
8 Replaee the system eover, and then reeonneet the system and peripherals to a power
souree and turn on the system.
Updating Drivers
^ NOTE: When you install the Broadcom NetXtreme 10/100/1000 adapter card, your system
automatically Installs the device drivers. If you need to update your device drivers, perform the
steps in this section.
Beeause the system does not use a monitor, keyboard, or diskette drive, you must update its
deviee drivers from a Mierosoft® Windows® operating system-based elient system on the
network. To update the system’s drivers, you must first eopy the deviee drivers to the
network attaehed storage (NAS) system and then update them using Terminal Serviees.
^ NOTE: See the Dell | Support website at support.dell.com for the latest driver updates for your
card.
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Copying Drivers to the NAS System
Before updating your drivers, perform the following steps to eopy the drivers to your NAS
system:
1 Using a web browser, eonneet to the Dell™ PowerVault™ NAS Manager and ereate a
share on the NAS system (see your System Administrator’s Guide).
2 From a Windows 2000 elient system, map the share you ereated in step 1. Perform the
following substeps to map the share.
^ NOTE: If you are using a Windows-based ciient system other than Windows 2000, see your
operating system documentation for information about how to map and disconnect a
network drive.
a Right-eliek My Computer and seleet Map Network Drive.
b Speeify the drive letter and folder for the eonneetion and eliek OK.
c Enter the name of the NAS system and the name of the share you ereated in
step 1 and eliek OK.
d In the Map Network Drive window, eliek different user name.
The Connect As... window is displayed.
e Enter a user name and password to eonneet to a NAS aeeount with administrator
privileges.
f Cliek OK.
g Cliek Finish.
3 Copy the latest drivers from support.dell.com to the share.
- Diseonneet the share from the elient.
a Right-eliek My Computer and seleet Disconnect Network Drive.
b Seleet the share that you want to diseonneet and eliek OK.
Updating Your NAS System’s Drivers
1 Conneet to the PowerVault NAS Manager.
2 Cliek Maintenance, and then eliek Terminal Services.
3 Cliek Terminal Services and log onto a NAS aeeount with administrator privileges.
- On the Advanced Administration Menu under System Management, eliek Computer
Management.
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5 Click Computer Management in the left pane.
6 Click System Tools in the left pane.
7 Click Deviee Manager in the left pane.
8 Click Network adapters in the right pane.
9 Right-click Broadeom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet and select Properties.
The Broadeom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet Properties window is displayed.
10 Click the Driver tab.
11 Click Update Driver.
The Upgrade Device Driver Wizard is displayed.
Click Next.12
Click the radio button next to Seareh for a suitable driver for my deviee
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(reeommended)) and then click Next.
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In Optional seareh loeations, click the check box for Speeify a loeation and deselect
the other check boxes.
Click Next.
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The Upgrade Device Driver Wizard is displayed.
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Specify the folder name that contains the device drivers in the path for Copy
manufaeturer's files from.
Click OK, and then click Next.
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The Upgrade Device Driver Wizard searches the specified folder for the driver files.
18 Click Finish.
19 Click Close to exit the driver properties dialog box.
^ NOTE: Some systems may need to be restarted to complete the driver upgrade. If prompted,