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Solarflare Adapters on Linux
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3.4 Installing Solarflare Drivers and Utilities on Linux
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Distributions on page 63
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Distributions on page 64
Linux drivers for Solarflare are available in DKMS and source RPM packages. The
source RPM can be used to build binary RPMs for a wide selection of distributions
and kernel variants. This section details how to install the resultant binary RPM.
Solarflare recommend using DKMS RPMs if the DKMS framework is available. See
DKMS RPM on page 61 for more details.
NOTE: The Solarflare adapter should be physically installed in the host computer
before installing the driver. The user must have root permissions to install the
adapter drivers.
3.5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Distributions
These instructions cover installation and configuration of the Solarflare network
adapter drivers on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server. Refer to Software Driver Support
on page 17 for details of supported Linux distributions.
Refer to Building the Source RPM on page 62 for directions on creating the binary
RPM.
1 Install the RPMs:
#
rpm ‐ ivh kernel ‐ module ‐ sfc ‐ RHEL6 ‐ 2.6.32 ‐ 279.el6.x86_64 ‐ 3.3.0.6262 ‐ 1.x86_64.rpm
2 Make the new network settings.
Solarflare recommend using the NetworkManager service and associated GUI
tools. For more information about this refer to https://wiki.gnome.org/
NetworkManager .
3 Apply the new network settings.
If you are using the NetworkManager service and associated GUI tools, you will
need to reboot. Alternatively you can restart the networking service, by typing
the following before the new Solarflare interface can be used:
#
service network restart
Various other tools that can be used for configuring network adapters. See the
documentation supplied with the tool.