User Manual

Rev 4.70
Mellanox Technologies
20
4 Installing Mellanox WinOF Driver
This section provides instructions for two types of installation procedures:
• “Attended Installation”
An installation procedure that requires frequent user intervention.
• “Unattended Installation”
An automated installation procedure that requires no user intervention.
4.1 Attended Installation
The following is an example of a MLNX_WinOF_win2012 x64 installation session.
Step 1. Double click the .exe and follow the GUI instructions to install MLNX_WinOF.
Step 2. [Optional] Manually configure your setup to contain the logs option.
Step 3. [Optional] If you do not want to upgrade your firmware version
1
.
Step 4. [Optional] If you want to control the installation of the WMI/CIM provider
2
.
Step 5. [Optional] If you want to control whether to restore network configuration or not
3
.
For further help, please run:
Both Attended and Unattended installations require administrator privileges.
Starting from MLNX WinOF v4.55, the log option is enabled automatically.
The default path of the log is: %LOCALAPPDATA%\MLNX_WinOF.log0
MLNX_VPI_WinOF-4.70_All_win2012_x64.exe /v"/l*vx [LogFile]"
MLNX_VPI_WinOF-4.70_All_win2012_x64.exe /v" MT_SKIPFWUPGRD=1"
1. MT_SKIPFWUPGRD default value is False
MLNX_VPI_WinOF-4.70_All_win2012_x64.exe /v" MT_WMI=1"
2. MT_WMI default value is True
MLNX_VPI_WinOF-4.70_All_win2012_x64.exe /v" MT_RESTORECONF=1"
3. MT_RESTORECONF default value is True
MLNX_VPI_WinOF-4.70_All_win2012_x64.exe /v" /h"