Driver Installation
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Mellanox Technologies
The image’s name has the format
MLNX_OFED_LINUX-<ver>-<OS
label><CPU
arch>.iso
. You can download it from
http://www.mellanox.com
--> Products --> Software
--> InfiniBand/VPI Drivers --> Mellanox OFED Linux (MLNX_OFED).
Step a.
Scroll down to the Download wizard, and click the Download tab.
Step b.
Choose your relevant package depending on your host operating system.
Step c.
Click the desired ISO/tgz package.
Step d.
To obtain the download link, accept the End User License Agreement (EULA).
Step 3.
Use the md5sum utility to confirm the file integrity of your ISO image. Run the following
command and compare the result to the value provided on the download page.
4.1.3 Installing Mellanox OFED
4.1.3.1 Installation Script
The installation script,
mlnxofedinstall
, performs the following:
• Discovers the currently installed kernel
• Uninstalls any software stacks that are part of the standard operating system distribution
or another vendor's commercial stack
• Installs the MLNX_OFED_LINUX binary RPMs (if they are available for the current
kernel)
• Identifies the currently installed InfiniBand and Ethernet network adapters and automat-
ically
1
upgrades the firmware
Note
: If you wish to perform a firmware upgrade using customized FW binaries, you can
provide a path to the folder that contains the FW binary files, by running
--fw-image-
dir
. Using this option, the FW version embedded in the MLNX_OFED package will be
ignored.
Example
:
Usage
The installation script removes all previously installed Mellanox OFED packages and re-installs
from scratch. You will be prompted to acknowledge the deletion of the old packages.
md5sum MLNX_OFED_LINUX-<ver>-<OS label>.iso
1. The firmware will not be updated if you run the install script with the ‘--without-fw-update’ option.
./mlnxofedinstall --fw-image-dir /tmp/my_fw_bin_files
./mnt/mlnxofedinstall [OPTIONS]
Pre-existing configuration files will be saved with the extension “.conf.rpmsave”.
