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User Diagnostics and Utilities: QLogic QME8242 Mezzanine Card User's Guide
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User Diagnostics for VMware NIC Driver Management
Applications: QLogic QME8242 Mezzanine Card User's Guide
This section covers the following information for user diagnostics for VMware:
Ethtool
EFI
Ethtool
Use the ethtool utility to view adapter statistics and configure interface options.
Supported options include the display of device information, protocol offload options, driver information, adapter statistics,
and more. For details, refer to the ethtool man page.
To view driver and firmware versions, issue the following command:
ethtool -i vmnic[n]
Example:
# ethtool -i vmnic7
driver: qlcnic
version: 4.0.614
firmware-version: 4.3.2
bus-info: 0000:10:00.3
To view interface statistics, issue the following command:
ethtool –S vmnic[n]
Example:
# ethtool -S vmnic7
NIC statistics:
bad_skblen: 0
rcvd_badskb: 0
xmit_called: 617618
xmit_finished: 617618
rx_dropped: 0
tx_dropped: 0
csummed: 777792
rx_pkts: 897558
lro_pkts: 0
rx_bytes: 78433279
tx_bytes: 60526284
EFI
This section provides user notes regarding the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) driver contained in the 10 Gb
multi-boot image. It includes the following sections:
UEFI Package Contents
Supported Features
Fibre Channel Adapter Configuration
Updating the UEFI (EfiUtilx64)
UEFI Package Contents
Files in the UEFI driver package include the following:
p3pxxxxx.bin is a combined binary file, which includes the binaries for BIOS, FCode, UEFI driver, and RISC firmware.
EfiUtil.EFI or EfiUtilx64.EFI is the UEFI Utility to update the UEFI driver, firmware, and NVRAM.
QL8XXX.DRV is the auxiliary driver file used for updating the adapter.
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