Oracle SG-EMFCOE2-Q-SR, Installation Manual

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To Manually Load the FCoE Driver
Loading the Newly Built FCoE Driver
After you build the FCoE driver, as described in “To Build the FCoE Driver ” on page 45 ,
you can choose to manually or automatically load the driver. This section contains the following
topics:
■
“To Manually Load the FCoE Driver” on page 46
■
“To Automatically Load the FCoE Driver” on page 46
To Manually Load the FCoE Driver
After building the FCoE driver, you can choose to manually load the driver. If you
want to automatically load the driver, skip to “To Automatically Load the FCoE
Driver” on page 46 .
1. Build the driver binary, as described in “To Build the FCoE Driver
” on page 45 .
2.
Manually load the driver by using the
modprobe -v
command.
Note - On SLES 11, before running the
modprobe -v
command, modify the
/etc/modprobe.d/
unsupported-modules
file by changing the line,
allow_unsupported_modules 0
, to
allow_unsupported_modules 1
.
# modprobe -v qla2
xxx
3.
If you want to manually unload the driver, use the
modprobe -r
command.
# modprobe -r qla2
xxx
To Automatically Load the FCoE Driver
After building the Fibre Channel driver, you can choose to automatically load the driver. If you
want to manually load the driver, see “To Manually Load the FCoE Driver” on page 46 .
1. Build the driver binary, as described in “To Build the FCoE Driver
” on page 45 .
2.
Install the driver module (
*.ko
) files to the appropriate kernel module directory.
46 Sun Storage 10 GbE FCoE ExpressModule Converged Network Adapter From QLogic Installation Guide For Adapter
Models SG-EMFCOE2-Q-SR, SG-XEMFCOE2-Q-SR, SG-EMFCOE2-Q-TA, SG-XEMFCOE2-Q-TA, and 7101682 •
January 2017