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Windows Driver Installation and Configuration: QLogic QME8242 Mezzanine Card User's Guide
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Windows Driver Installation and Configuration: QLogic QME8242
Mezzanine Card User's Guide
This section provides the following procedures for installing drivers on a Windows system:

Installation Overview

Installing the Windows NIC Driver
Installing the Windows iSCSI Driver
Installing the Windows FCoE Driver
Installation Overview
To install and configure the QME8242 drivers on a Windows system, refer to the driver release notes and readme files
included in the package. Basic installation for the drivers is included in the following sections:
Installing the Windows NIC Driver
Installing the Windows iSCSI Driver
Installing the Windows FCoE Driver
You can install Windows drivers using either the
as summarized in the following sections.
Installing Windows Drivers and Applications Using the InstallShield Wizard
To download and run the QLogic P3P Installer (DELL) - InstallShield Wizard:
1. From the Dell web site, locate and save the QLogic_1.0_Windows_A00.exe self-extracting zip file to your local
drive.
2. Double-click the zip file.
3. In the C:\QLogic\Windows folder, double-click the setup.exe file.
4. Run the installer:
You can choose to install drivers only or both drivers and applications.
You can choose to optionally install the VLAN and Teaming driver.
Extracting and Installing Windows Drivers Manually
Before you begin CLI installation, use the setup installer to extract Plug and Play drivers only from the SuperInstaller as
follows:
1. From the Dell web site, download the package containing setup.exe.
2. Extract the package to a local directory (for example, C:\Temp\Downloads\Setup).
3. Extract all drivers (NIC, iSCSI, and FCoE) from the package by issuing the following commands:
cd /d C:\Temp\Download\Setup\
setup.exe /s /z"/extractdrivers=\"C:\Temp\Download\Setup\extractdrivers\"
/logfile=\"C:\Temp\Download\Setup\log.txt\""
The drivers are extracted to the following folder (for example):
C:\Temp\Download\Setup
4. Select the appropriate driver for the device and OS, as shown in
5. Install the drivers following specific procedures for the NIC, iSCSI, and
Table 1: Windows Driver Installation Files
Path and File Name
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Description
QLogic 3200 and 8200 Series NDIS
or the command line interface
1.
FCoE drivers.
Windows OS Version
(CLI),