Removing Earlier Mellanox Driver; Firmware Programming - Mellanox Technologies ConnectX-5 Ex User Manual

4.3.3 Removing Earlier Mellanox Driver

 To remove all previously installed drivers:
1. Log into the ESXi server with root permissions.
2. List all the existing NATIVE ESXi driver modules. (see Step 4 in
3. Remove each module.
#> esxcli software vib remove -n nmlx5-rdma
#> esxcli software vib remove -n nmlx5-core
4. Reboot the server.

4.3.4 Firmware Programming

1. Download the VMware bootable binary images v4.6.0 from the
(MFT) site.
• ESXi 6.5 File: mft-4.6.0.48-10EM-650.0.0.4598673.x86_64.vib
MD5SUM: 0804cffe30913a7b4017445a0f0adbe1
2. Install the image according to the steps described in the
Rev 1.7
Please unload the previously installed drivers before removing them.
To remove the modules, you must run the command in the same order as shown in the
example above.
The following procedure requires custom boot image downloading, mounting and boot-
ing from a USB device.
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