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Contents of ISO Image
Contents of ISO Image
The ISO image contains the following directories and files:
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Installing Host Drivers from an ISO Image
See the Cisco InfiniBand Host Channel Adapter Hardware Installation Guide to correctly install HCAs.
To install host drivers from an ISO image, perform the following steps:
If you upgrade your Linux kernel after installing these host drivers, you need to reinstall the host drivers.
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Verify that the system has a viable HCA installed by ensuring that you can see the InfiniHost entries in
Step 1
the display.
The following example shows that the installed HCA is viable:
host1# lspci -v | grep Mellanox
06:01.0 PCI bridge: Mellanox Technologies MT23108 PCI Bridge (rev a0) (prog-if 00 [Normal
decode])
07:00.0 InfiniBand: Mellanox Technologies MT23108 InfiniHost (rev a0)
Download an ISO image, and copy it to your network.
Step 2
You can download an ISO image from
Step 3
Use the md5sum utility to confirm the file integrity of your ISO image.
Install drivers from an ISO image on your network.
Step 4
The following example shows how to install host drivers from an ISO image:
host1# mount -o ro,loop topspin-host-3.2.0-136.iso /mnt
host1# /mnt/tsinstall
The following kernels are installed, but do not have drivers available:
2.6.9-34.EL.x86_64
The following installed packages are out of date and will be upgraded:
topspin-ib-rhel4-3.2.0-118.x86_64
topspin-ib-mpi-rhel4-3.2.0-118.x86_64
topspin-ib-mod-rhel4-2.6.9-34.ELsmp-3.2.0-118.x86_64
The following packages will be installed:
topspin-ib-rhel4-3.2.0-136.x86_64 (libraries, binaries, etc)
Cisco SFS InfiniBand Host Drivers User Guide for Linux
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docs/
This directory contains the related documents.
tsinstall
This is the installation script.
redhat/
This directory contains the binary RPMs for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
suse/
This directory contains the binary RPMs for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.
Subsystem: Mellanox Technologies MT23108 InfiniHost
http://www.cisco.com/cgi-bin/tablebuild.pl/sfs-linux
Chapter 2
Installing Host Drivers
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