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Mellanox Technologies Confidential
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Driver Installation
Please use the relevant driver installation section.
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4.1
Linux Driver Installation
This section describes how to install and test the Mellanox OFED for Linux package on a
single server with a Mellanox ConnectX-6 adapter card installed.
4.1.1
Pr
erequisit
es
Requirements
Description
Platforms
A server platform with a ConnectX-6 InfiniBand/VPI adapter card
installed.
Required Disk Space for
Installation
1GB
Device ID
For the latest list of device IDs, please visit the Mellanox website
at
http://www.mellanox.com/page/firmware_HCA_FW_identification
Operating System
Linux operating system.
For the list of supported operating system distributions and kernels,
please refer to the
Mellanox OFED Release Notes
file.
Installer Privileges
The installation requires administrator (root) privileges on the target
machine.
4.1.2
Downloading Mellanox OFED
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Verify that the system has a Mellanox network adapter installed.
The following example shows a system with an installed Mellanox adapter card:
lspci -v |grep Mellanox
af:00.0 Infiniband controller: Mellanox Technologies MT28908 Family [ConnectX-6]
Subsystem: Mellanox Technologies Device 0018
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Download the ISO image to your host.
The image’s name has the format
MLNX_OFED_LINUX-<ver>-<OS label><CPU
arch>.iso.
You can download and install the latest OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED)
software package available via the Mellanox web site
at
> Products > Software > Ethernet Drivers > Linux
SW/Drivers > Download..
a.
Scroll down to the Download wizard, and click the Download tab.
b.
Choose your relevant package depending on your host operating system.
c.
Click the desired ISO/tgz package.
d.
To obtain the download link, accept the End User License Agreement
(EULA).
