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Driver Installation
4.1
Linux Driver
For Linux, download and install the latest OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) software
package available via the Mellanox web site at:
ware => Ethernet Drivers => Download. This chapter describes how to install and test the Mella-
nox OFED for Linux package on a single host machine with Mellanox ConnectX-4 adapter
hardware installed.
4.1.1 Hardware and Software Requirements
4.1.2 Downloading Mellanox OFED
Step 1.
Verify that the system has a Mellanox network adapter (HCA/NIC) installed.
The following example shows a system with an installed Mellanox HCA:
Step 2.
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 it from
ware => Ethernet Drivers.
Table 5 - Hardware and Software Requirements
Requirements
Description
Platforms
A server platform with an adapter card based on one of the following Mellanox Tech-
nologies’
Ethernet
HCA devices:
• MT4115 ConnectX®-4 (EN) (firmware: fw-ConnectX4)
For the list of supported architecture platforms, please refer to the Mellanox OFED
Release Notes file.
Required Disk
Space for
Installation
1GB
Device ID
For the latest list of device IDs, please visit Mellanox website.
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 privileges on the target machine.
# lspci -v | grep Mellanox
86:00.0 Network controller [0207]: Mellanox Technologies MT27620 Family
Subsystem: Mellanox Technologies Device 0014
86:00.1 Network controller [0207]: Mellanox Technologies MT27620 Family
Subsystem: Mellanox Technologies Device 0014