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Error message 2:
The firmware for this device is not distributed inside Mellanox driver: 0000:01:00.0 (PSID:
IBM2150110033)
To obtain firmware for this device, please contact your HW vendor.
4. If the installation script has performed a firmware update on your network adapter,
complete the step relevant to your adapter card type to load the firmware:
ConnectX-6 Socket Direct - perform a cold reboot (power cycle)
Otherwise, restart the driver by running:
After installation completion, information about the NVIDIA OFED installation, such as prefix, kernel
version, and installation parameters can be retrieved by running the command /etc/infiniband/info.
Most of the NVIDIA OFED components can be configured or reconfigured after the installation, by
modifying the relevant configuration files. See the relevant chapters in this manual for details.
The list of the modules that will be loaded automatically upon boot can be found in the /etc/
infiniband/openib.conf file.
Installation Results
Software
Firmware
Installation Logs
While installing MLNX_OFED, the install log for each selected package will be saved in a separate log
file. The path to the directory containing the log files will be displayed after running the installation
script in the following format: "
/etc/init.d/openibd restart
• Most of MLNX_OFED packages are installed under the "/usr" directory
except for the following packages which are installed under the "/
opt" directory:
• fca and ibutils
• The kernel modules are installed under
• /lib/modules/`uname -r`/updates on SLES and Fedora
Distributions
• /lib/modules/`uname -r`/extra/mlnx-ofa_kernel on RHEL and
other Red Hat like Distributions
• The firmware of existing network adapter devices will be updated if
the following two conditions are fulfilled:
• The installation script is run in default mode; that is, without
the option '--without-fw-update'
• The firmware version of the adapter device is older than the
firmware version included with the NVIDIA OFED ISO image
Note: If an adapter's flash was originally programmed with an
Expansion ROM image, the automatic firmware update will
also burn an Expansion ROM image.
• In case that your machine has an unsupported network adapter
device, no firmware update will occur and the error message below
will be printed.
The firmware for this device is not distributed inside Mellanox driver:
0000:01:00.0 (PSID: IBM2150110033)
To obtain firmware for this device, please contact your HW vendor.
Logs dir: /tmp/MLNX_OFED_LINUX-<version>.<PD>.logs
".
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