Driver Installation
Rev 2.6
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Mellanox Technologies
4.2.3.2 Unattended Installation
The following is an example of an unattended installation session.
Step 1.
Open a CMD console
->
Click Start
->
Task Manager
->
File
->
Run new task
->
and enter
CMD.
Step 2.
Install the driver. Run:
Step 3.
[Optional] Manually configure your setup to contain the logs option:
Step 4.
[Optional] If you want to control whether to install ND provider or not
1
.
Step 5.
[Optional] If you do not wish to upgrade your firmware version
2
.
4.2.4 Installation Results
Upon installation completion, you can verify the successful addition of the network card(s)
through the Device Manager.
Upon installation completion, the inf files can be located at:
• %ProgramFiles%\Mellanox\MLNX_WinOF2\Drivers\<OS>
To see the Mellanox network adapters, display the Device Manager and pull down the “Net-
work adapters” menu.
If no reboot options are specified, the installer restarts the computer whenever necessary without
displaying any prompt or warning to the user.
Use the
/norestart
or
/forcerestart
standard command-line options to control reboots.
> MLNX_WinOF2-1_35_All_x64.exe /S /v"/qn"
> MLNX_WinOF2-1_35_All_x64.exe /S /v"/qn" /v"/l*vx [LogFile]"
> MLNX_WinOF2-1_35_All_x64.exe /vMT_NDPROPERTY=1
1. MT_NDPROPERTY default value is True
> MLNX_WinOF2-1_35_All_x64.exe /v" MT_SKIPFWUPGRD=1"
2. MT_SKIPFWUPGRD default value is False
Applications that hold the driver files (such as ND applications) will be closed during the unat-
tended installation.
