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Solarflare Server Adapter
User Guide
6.3 Installing Solarflare Drivers
The Solaris drivers for Solarflare are available in a binary package for both 32 and 64 bit platforms.
• A driver package (pkg format) is available for Solaris 10.8, 10.9 and 10.10.
• A driver package (pkg format) is available for Solaris 11.0.
1
As a root user enter:
pkgadd -d SFCsfxge_
sol10
_i386_<version>.pkg SFCsfxge
or
pkgadd -d SFCsfxge_
sol11
_i386_<version>.pkg SFCsfxge
Output similar to the following will be displayed:
Solarflare 10GE NIC Driver(i386) <DRIVER VERSION>
<LICENSE INFO>
This package contains scripts which will be executed with super-user
permission during the process of installing this package.
Do you want to continue with the installation of <SFCsfxge> [y,n,?]
2
Enter '
y
'. The installation will continue.
3
The following information will be displayed:
Installing Solarflare 10GE NIC Driver as <SFCsfxge>
## Installing part 1 of 1.
/kernel/drv/amd64/sfxge
/kernel/drv/sfxge
[ verifying class <none> ]
## Executing postinstall script.
Installation of <SFCsfxge> was successful.
NOTE:
The Solarflare adapter should be physically installed in the host computer before you
attempt to install drivers. You must have root permissions to install the adapter drivers.