Driver Installation And Removal On Linux Systems - Dell Brocade Adapters Installation And Reference Manual

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Upgrading driver on Windows systems
To update the drivers, follow procedures under
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Driver installation and removal on Linux systems

Use the install script to selectively install storage driver packages, network driver packages, and
utilities to Linux systems.
The driver package is provided as an RPM package. If you are using a supported Linux driver
package and standard host configuration, you can use these RPMs. Refer to
and driver packages"
support.
1. Boot the host and log on with Administrator privileges.
2. Create an installation directory such as /opt/CNA or /opt/HBA, depending on your adapter.
3. Download the appropriate .tar.gz file for your Linux distribution. Refer to
4. Extract the driver packages to the directory you created in
5. Enter the following command to run the installer on RHEL and SLES systems:
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Using software installation scripts and system commands
brocade_install.bat W2K8_HOTFIX= "KB9987654:Required:newer_hotfix"
Avoid checking for hot fix
brocade_install.bat W2K3_HOTFIX=""
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When upgrading the driver for Windows systems, you do not need to reboot the host system as
the driver upgrades immediately. The upgrade reloads the adapter firmware and reinitializes
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When upgrading Windows 2008 drivers on adapters used for booting over SAN, install the new
driver without removing the existing driver. If you remove the existing driver before installing a
new driver, installation may fail and the operating system will become unbootable.
on page 43 for a description of packages and kernel versions that they
and driver packages" on page 43 for a description of Linux driver packages.
a. Enter a path or browse to the driver directory where you want to install the extracted files
when prompted (for example /opt/CNA or /opt/HBA). Note that you can specify a directory
other than the default directory.
b. To untar the source-based RPM for all RHEL and SLES Linux distributions.
tar -zxvf brocade_driver_linux_<version>.tar.gz
c. To untar the precompiled RPMs for RHEL distributions.
tar -zxvf brocade_driver_linux__rhel_<version>.tar.gz
d. To untar the precompiled RPMs for SLES distributions.
tar -zxvf brocade_driver_linux__sles_<version>.tar.gz
brocade_install_rhel.sh
[-u,-h][--update\--add\--rm-initrd][--force-uninstall][--snmp] [--snmp-only]
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