User Manual

InstallationRev 2.0-3.0.0

Mellanox Technologies

Firmware

• The firmware of existing network adapter devices will be updated if the following two

conditions are fulfilled:

a. You run the installation script in default mode; that is, without the option ‘--without-fw-update’.

b. The firmware version of the adapter device is older than the firmware version included with the Mellanox

OFED ISO image

• In case your machine has an unsupported network adapter device, no firmware update

will occur and the error message below will be printed. Please contact your hardware

vendor for help on firmware updates.

Error message:

2.3.5 Post-installation Notes

• Most of the Mellanox OFED components can be configured or reconfigured after the

installation by modifying the relevant configuration files. See the relevant chapters in

this manual for details.

• The list of the modules that will be loaded automatically upon boot can be found in the

/etc/infiniband/openib.conf file.

2.4 Updating Firmware After Installation

In case you ran the mlnxofedinstall script with the ‘--without-fw-update’ option and

now you wish to (manually) update firmware on your adapter card(s), you need to perform the

following steps:

Step 1. Start mst.

Step 2. Identify your target InfiniBand device for firmware update.

1. Get the list of InfiniBand device names on your machine.

If an adapter’s Flash was originally programmed with an Expansion ROM image, the

automatic firmware update will also burn an Expansion ROM image.

-I- Querying device ...

-E- Can't auto detect fw configuration file: ...

If you need to burn an Expansion ROM image, please refer to “Burning the Expan-

sion ROM Image” on page 205

The following steps are also appropriate in case you wish to burn newer firmware that

you have downloaded from Mellanox Technologies’ Web site (http://www.mella-

nox.com > Downloads > Firmware).

host1# mst start