Installing The Red Hat/Suse Linux Drivers; To Build The Fibre Channel Driver - Sun Microsystems StorageTek SG-XPCIE1FC-QF8-Z Installation Manual

Installing the Red Hat/SUSE Linux Drivers

After you download the drivers, as described in
Linux Drivers" on page
section:
1. "To Build the Fibre Channel Driver" on page 28
2. "To Load the Newly Built Fibre Channel Driver" on page 29

▼ To Build the Fibre Channel Driver

The driver installation makes extensive use of the build.sh script, which is located
in driver source (extras/build.sh).
From the source code, you can build a qla2xxx.ko module and a
qla2xxx_conf.ko module for the host. You can then choose to load the driver
manually or automatically, as described in
Driver" on page
1. In the directory that contains the source driver file, qla2xxx-x.yy.zz-
dist.tgz, use the commands shown in the following example.
# tar -xvzf *.tgz
# cd qlogic
# ./drvrsetup (this extracts the source files directory into the
current directory)
# cd qla2xxx-x.yy.zz (x.yy indicates the driver version; zz indicates the
file extension, which is typically .ko for kernel modules
(binaries)).
2. Build and install the driver modules from the source code by executing the
build.sh script.
# ./extras/build.sh install
This build script does the following:
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Builds the driver .ko files.
Copies the .ko files to the appropriate directory:
/lib/modules/2.6.../kernel/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx
Adds the appropriate directive in the modprobe.conf.local to remove the
qla2xxx_conf module when unloading the qla2xxx module.
Updates the newly built qla2xxx_conf.ko module with any previously
saved data in /etc/qla2xxx.conf.
"Downloading the Red Hat/SUSE
"To Load the Newly Built Fibre Channel