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Requirements
Device ID
Operating System
Installer Privileges
Downloading Mellanox OFED
1.
Verify that the system has a Mellanox network adapter installed.
The following example shows a system with an installed Mellanox adapter card:
# lspci -v | grep Mellanox
86:00.0 Network controller [0207]: Mellanox Technologies MT27620 Family
Subsystem: Mellanox Technologies Device 0014
86:00.1 Network controller [0207]: Mellanox Technologies MT27620 Family
Subsystem: Mellanox Technologies Device 0014
2.
Download the ISO image to your host.
The image's name has the format
You can download and install the latest OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) software
package available via the Mellanox web site at http://www.mellanox.com > Products > Software
> Ethernet Drivers > Linux SW/Drivers > Download..
a.
Scroll down to the Download wizard, and click the Download tab.
b.
Choose your relevant package depending on your host operating system.
c.
Click the desired ISO/tgz package.
d.
To obtain the download link, accept the End User License Agreement (EULA).
3.
Use the md5sum utility to confirm the file integrity of your ISO image. Run the following
command and compare the result to the value provided on the download page.
md5sum MLNX_OFED_LINUX-<ver>-<OS label>.iso
Installing Mellanox OFED
Installation Script
The installation script,
•
Discovers the currently installed kernel
•
Uninstalls any software stacks that are part of the standard operating system distribution or
another vendor's commercial stack
•
Installs the MLNX_OFED_LINUX binary RPMs (if they are available for the current kernel)
•
Identifies the currently installed InfiniBand and Ethernet network adapters and automatically
upgrades the firmware.
Note: The firmware will not be updated if you run the install script with the '--without-fw-
update' option.
Note: If you wish to perform a firmware upgrade using customized FW binaries, you can provide
MLNX_OFED_LINUX-<ver>-<OS label><CPU arch>.iso
, performs the following:
mlnxofedinstall
For the latest list of device IDs, please visit the Mellanox
website
at http://www.mellanox.com/page/
firmware_HCA_FW_identification.
Linux operating system.
For the list of supported operating system distributions and
kernels, please refer to the Mellanox OFED Release Notes
file.
The installation requires administrator (root) privileges on
the target machine.
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