Oracle StorageTek 8 Gb FC PCIe HBA, Installation Manual

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To Download the Fibre Channel Driver
Chapter 3 • Software Installation 31
Downloading the Red Hat/SUSE Linux Drivers
This section describes how to download the fibre channel driver for the HBA.
To Download the Fibre Channel Driver
1.
Go to the QLogic support site for Oracle at:
http://driverdownloads.qlogic.com/QLogicDriverDownloads_UI/Oracle_Search.aspx
2.
Locate the table containing the HBA model that you want (SG-
model-number
).
3. At the bottom of the table, in the Software for row, click Linux.
4. In the Red Hat or SUSE Linux table, find the appropriate driver (the file name is in
the format
qle256
x
-vx.yy.zz-dist.tgz
).
5. In the Download column of that row, click Download.
6. Save the file to a directory on the hard disk of the computer.
Note -
Because the driver distribution file is now larger than 1.44 Mb, it cannot fit on a 1.44 Mb
floppy disk; therefore, you must use a USB driver or local hard disk to download the file.
Installing the Red Hat/SUSE Linux Drivers
To Install and Load the Red Hat/SUSE Linux Drivers
After you download the drivers, as described in “Downloading the Red Hat/SUSE Linux
Drivers” on page 31 , you can install the drivers by following the steps in this section:
1. “To Build the Fibre Channel Driver ” on page 31
2. “To Load the Newly Built Fibre Channel Driver” on page 32
To Build the Fibre Channel Driver
The driver installation makes extensive use of the
build.sh
script, which is located in driver
source (
extras/build.sh
).