Installing The Kmp Package; Building The Driver From The Source Tar File - Qlogic FastLinQ 3400 Series User Manual

5–Linux Driver Software
Installing Linux Driver Software
14. For FCOE offload, restart fcoe service to apply new settings
For SLES11 SP1, RHEL 6.4, and legacy versions:
service fcoe restart
For SLES11 SP2:
rcfcoe restart
For SLES12:
systemctl restart fcoe

Installing the KMP Package

NOTE
The examples in this procedure refer to the bnx2x driver, but also apply to
the bxn2fc and bnx2i drivers.
1. Install the KMP package:
rpm -ivh <file>
rmmod bnx2x
2. Load the driver:
modprobe bnx2x

Building the Driver from the Source TAR File

NOTE
The examples used in this procedure refer to the bnx2x driver, but also apply
to the bnx2i and bnx2fc drivers.
1. Create a directory and extract the TAR files to the directory:
tar xvzf netxtreme2-<version>.tar.gz
2. Build the driver bnx2x.ko (or bnx2x.o) as a loadable module for the running
kernel:
cd netxtreme2-<version>
make
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