User Guide

3-14 Chapter 3: Driver installation
or
modprobe bnx2i
To load the bnx2fc driver for BCM57712 device:
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.