2–Driver Installation and Configuration
Windows Driver Installation and Configuration
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Windows Driver Installation and Configuration
Installation Overview
To install and configure the QME8242 drivers on a Windows system, refer to the
driver release notes and readme files included in the package. Basic installation
for the drivers is included in the following sections:
Installing the Windows NIC Driver
Installing the Windows iSCSI Driver
Installing the Windows FCoE Driver
You can install Windows drivers using either the graphical user interface (GUI)
installer or the command line interface (CLI), as summarized in the following
sections.
Installing Windows Drivers and Applications Using the InstallShield Wizard
To download and run the QLogic P3P Installer (DELL) - InstallShield Wizard:
1.
From the Dell web site, locate and save the
QLogic_1.0_Windows_A00.exe
self-extracting zip file to your local drive.
2.
Double-click the zip file.
3.
In the
C:\QLogic\Windows
folder, double-click the
setup.exe
file.
4.
Run the installer:
You can choose to install drivers only or both drivers and applications.
You can choose to optionally install the VLAN and Teaming driver.
Extracting and Installing Windows Drivers Manually
Before you begin CLI installation, use the setup installer to extract Plug and Play
drivers only from the SuperInstaller as follows:
1.
From the Dell web site, download the package containing
setup.exe
.
2.
Extract the package to a local directory (for example,
C:\Temp\Downloads\Setup
).
3.
Extract all drivers (NIC, iSCSI, and FCoE) from the package by issuing the
following commands:
cd /d C:\Temp\Download\Setup\
setup.exe /s
/z"/extractdrivers=\"C:\Temp\Download\Setup\extractdrivers\"
/logfile=\"C:\Temp\Download\Setup\log.txt\""
