User Guide

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Chapter 3: Driver installation
insmod bnx2fc.ko
or
modprobe bnx2fc
service bnx2fcd start
Note that the inbox kernel may have an older version of bnx2, bnx2x and cnic driver. It
isimportantforFCoEofoadusertounloadtheseinboxversionsbeforeattemptingto
load bnx2fc driver. You can do either of these two options:
a) Reboot the server.
b) If already loaded, unload inbox bnx2, bnx2x, cnic drivers, and load the newly
installed version from netxtreme2-foce package using ‘
modprobe <DRV-NAME>
’
• Driverupgrade(
rpm -Uvh
) is not supported.
• OnSLES11,change“allow_unsupported_modules”parametervalueof
/etc/
modprobe.d/unsupport-modules’
from 0 to 1, until bnx2fc driver is inbox. Failing to
do so will not load bnx2fc.
6. Tocongurethenetworkprotocolandaddress,refertovariousLinuxdocumentations.