[SOLVED] How to install and updated driver?

[Rapitharian]

Everyone,
Here is the situation. I have a whitebox with the following specs:
ASUS mother board
512 MB SD RAM
1GHZ PIII intel processor
3ware 8006-LP2 SATA controller
2 WD 1.5 TB drives (Raid 1 configuration)
linksys Gb nic
52x CDROM
3.5" floppy drive
Centos 5.3 (32 bit)
kernel 2.6.18-128.el15

I believe I need to update the driver for the 3ware 8006-LP2 SATA controller; as I keep getting the errors mentioned in this post:

www dot centos dot org /modules /newbb /viewtopic.php ? topic_id=9234

Specifically I get the issue listed in post #2.

I know it says the issue doesn't effect the 32 bit OS' but, I am having the issue.

So I followed the link to the fix listed here:

bugs dot centos dot org /view.php ?id=2711

This in turn led me here:

www dot 3ware dot com /KB /article.aspx ?id=15243&cNode=6I1C6S

Replace the dot(s) with a . and remove the spaces to use the URLs in the code boxes.

Low and behold there is a new driver for 32bit systems as well as 64 bit systems.

Now for the meat of my problem, please remember I am a noob when it comes to installing drivers on linux. How do I go about updating the driver on my linux system?
The system will boot but, it errors out if I try to push lots of data (GBs) through the controller.
I have both console access and SSH access to this box. It also has internet connectivity.
Any help teaching this old dog new tricks is appreciated.

-Rap

[Rapitharian]

I solved my problem by adding the noapic command in the grub bootloader.

-Rap