Qlogic InfiniPath, Install Manual

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3 – Software Installation
Configuring the InfiniPath Drivers
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This will cause the
ipath_ether
Ethernet driver to be loaded and configured during
system startup. To check your configuration, and make the
ipath_ether
Ethernet
driver available immediately, use the command (as root):
# /sbin/ifup eth2
4. Check whether the Ethernet driver has been loaded with:
$ lsmod | grep ipath_ether
5. Verify that the driver is up with:
$ ifconfig -a
3.8.2.2
ipath_ether
Configuration on SUSE 9.3, SLES 9, and SLES 10
These configuration steps will cause the
ipath_ether
network interfaces to be
automatically configured when you next reboot the system. These instructions are
for the
SUSE 9.3, SLES 9 and SLES 10
distributions.
Typically on servers there are two Ethernet devices present, numbered as 0 (
eth0
)
and 1 (
eth1
). This example assumes we create a third device,
eth2
.
NOTE: When multiple InfiniPath chips are present, the configuration for
eth3
,
eth4
, and so on follow the same format as for adding
eth2
in the
examples below. Similarly , in step 2, add one to the unit number, so
replace
.../00/guid
with
/01/guid
for the second InfiniPath interface,
and so on.
Step 3 is applicable only to SLES 10; it is required because SLES 10 uses a newer
version of the
udev
subsystem.
NOTE: The MAC address (media access control address) is a unique identifier
attached to most forms of networking equipment. Step 2 below
determines the MAC address to use, and will be referred to as $MAC in
the subsequent steps. $MAC must be replaced in each case with the
string printed in step 2.
The following steps must all be executed as the root user.
1. Be sure that the ipath_ether module is loaded:
# lsmod | grep -q ipath_ether || modprobe ipath_ether
2. Determine the MAC address that will be used:
# sed ’s/^\(..:..:..\):..:../\1/’ \
/sys/bus/pci/drivers/ib_ipath/00/guid
NOTE: Care should be taken when cutting and pasting commands such as
the above from PDF documents, as quotes are special characters
and may not be translated correctly.