Installing Mellanox Winof-2 Driver; Attended Installation - Mellanox Technologies ConnectX-5 Ex User Manual

4.2.3 Installing Mellanox WinOF-2 Driver

This section provides instructions for two types of installation procedures:
• "Attended Installation"
An installation procedure that requires frequent user intervention.
• "Unattended Installation"
An automated installation procedure that requires no user intervention.

4.2.3.1 Attended Installation

The following is an example of an installation session.
Double click the .exe and follow the GUI instructions to install MLNX_WinOF2.
Step 1.
[Optional] Manually configure your setup to contain the logs option (replace "LogFile" with
Step 2.
the relevant directory):
[Optional] If you do not want to upgrade your firmware version
Step 3.
1. MT_SKIPFWUPGRD default value is False
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Installing the incorrect .exe file is prohibited. If you do so, an error message will be displayed. For
example, if you try to install a 64-bit .exe on a 32-bit machine, the wizard will display the follow-
ing (or a similar) error message:
"The installation package is not supported by this processor type. Contact your vendor"
WinOF-2 supports adapter cards based on the Mellanox ConnectX®-4 and above family of
adapter IC devices only. If you have ConnectX-3 and ConnectX-3 Pro on your server, you will
need to install WinOF driver.
For details on how to install WinOF driver, please refer to WinOF User Manual.
Both Attended and Unattended installations require administrator privileges.
MLNX_WinOF2-1_10_<revision_version>_All_x64.exe /v"/l*vx [LogFile]"
MLNX_WinOF2-1_10_<revision_version>_All_x64.exe /v" MT_SKIPFWUPGRD=1"
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