Qlogic Iscsi Expansion Card For Ibm Eserver Bladecenter In Linux; Driver Installation - IBM TotalStorage DS300 Best Practices Manual

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7.3 QLogic iSCSI Expansion Card for IBM eServer

BladeCenter in Linux

Follow these steps to install the driver on a Linux 2.6 kernel. These steps do not

apply to a Linux 2.4 kernel.

1. Download the current driver.

2. Extract the files from download file using tar xzf <DRIVERFILE>

3. Change to the directory containing the source files. The directory name is the

version number of the driver.

4. Build the driver using ./extras/build.sh.

5. Install the driver using ./extras/buil.sd install.

6. To ensure that the driver works reboot the server and verify the driver version

using cat /proc/scsi/qla4xxx/<SCSI-HOST-NUMBER>.

Figure 7-123 on page 304 shows steps 2 - 5 in our test setup using SLES9 SP2.

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