3–Driver Installation
Installing Linux Driver Software
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The Linux drivers can be installed using a source Red Hat
®
Package Manager
(RPM) package or a kmod RPM package. The RHEL RPM packages are as
follows:
qlgc-fastlinq-<version>.<OS>.src.rpm
qlgc-fastlinq-kmp-default-<version>.<arch>.rpm
The SLES source and kmp RPM packages are as follows:
qlgc-fastlinq-<version>.<OS>.src.rpm
qlgc-fastlinq-kmp-default-<version>.<OS>.<arch>.rpm
The following kernel module (kmod) RPM installs Linux drivers on SLES hosts
running the Xen Hypervisor:
qlgc-fastlinq-kmp-xen-<version>.<OS>.<arch>.rpm
The following source RPM installs the RDMA library code on RHEL and SLES
hosts:
qlgc-libqedr-<version>.<OS>.<arch>.src.rpm
The following source code TAR BZip2 (BZ2) compressed file installs Linux drivers
on RHEL and SLES hosts:
fastlinq-<version>.tar.bz2
qede
Linux Ethernet driver for the 41
xxx
Series Adapter. This driver directly controls the hard-
ware and is responsible for sending and receiving Ethernet packets on behalf of the Linux
host networking stack. This driver also receives and processes device interrupts on
behalf of itself (for L2 networking). The qede driver requires Linux kernel version 2.6.32 or
later. Testing was concentrated on the x86_64 architecture.
qedr
Linux RDMA over converged Ethernet (RoCE) driver. This driver works in the OpenFab-
rics Enterprise Distribution (OFED™) environment in conjunction with the qed core mod-
ule and the qede Ethernet driver. RDMA user space applications also require that the
libqedr user library is installed on the server.
qedi
Linux iSCSI-Offload driver for the 41
xxx
Series Adapters. This driver works with the Open
iSCSI library.
qedf
Linux FCoE-Offload driver for the 41
xxx
Series Adapters. This driver works with Open
FCoE library.
Table 3-1. QLogic 41xxx Series Adapters Linux Drivers (Continued)
Linux
Driver
Description