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To Manually Load the Fibre Channel Driver
After building the fibre channel driver, you can choose to manually load the driver. If you
want to automatically load the driver, skip to
Driver" on page
33.
Build the driver binary, as described in
1.
" on page
31.
2.
Manually load the driver by using the modprobe -v command.
modprobe -v qla2xxx
#
3.
If you want to manually unload the driver, use the modprobe -r command.
modprobe -r qla2xxx
#
modprobe -r qla2xxx_conf
#
To Automatically Load the Fibre Channel Driver
After building the fibre channel driver, you can choose to automatically load the driver. If
you want to manually load the fibre channel driver, see
Driver" on page
33.
1.
Build the driver binary, as described in
" on page
31.
2.
Install the driver module (*.ko) files to the appropriate kernel module directory.
./extras/build.sh install
#
3.
For Red Hat Linux users, edit the /etc/modprobe.conf file and add the following
entries, if they are not present:
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alias scsi_hostadapter1 qla2xxx_conf
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alias scsi_hostadapter2 qla2xxx
4.
For SUSE Linux users, edit the /etc/sysconfig/kernel file and modify the
INITRD_MODULES directive as shown in the following example.
In this example, note that you must add the first module, qla2xxx_conf (for SANsurfer),
followed by the qla2xxx module. The qla2xxx_conf module is for use only with SANsurfer
while the qla2xxx module is a common module.
"To Automatically Load the Fibre Channel
"To Build the Fibre Channel Driver
(SANsurfer use only)
"To Build the Fibre Channel Driver
(for use only with SANsurfer)
To Manually Load the Fibre Channel Driver
"To Manually Load the Fibre Channel
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