Specifications
8. From the Configuration Settings menu, scroll down to Extended Firmware
Settings. Press Enter.
9. From the Extended Firmware Settings menu, scroll down to Connection
Options to open the Option and Type of Connection window.
10. Press Enter.
11. Select the option:
v 0: Loop only
v 1: Point-to-point
v 2: Loop preferred (If you cannot use arbitrated loop, then default to
point-to-point.)
v 3: Point-to point, otherwise loop (If you cannot use point-to-point, default to
arbitrated loop.)
Note: If you connect the ESS directly to the host system, the option you select
must match the port connections on the ESS.
12. Press Esc.
13. To save the changes, click Yes. Press Enter.
14. Restart the server.
Loading the current fibre-channel adapter driver
Perform the following steps to load the current driver onto the QLogic adapter card.
1. Go to the following Web site:
www.qlogic.com
2. From the home page, click Driver Download.
3. Click User Qlogic Drivers.
4. Click Fibre-Channel Adapter Drivers and Software.
5. Click QLA22xx or QLA23xx.
6. Click Linux.
7. Click the link for the appropriate Linux source code and the appropriate Linux
driver or the Linux kernel.
8. In the Save As window, find the current driver file, xxxxxxx.exe, where xxxxxxx
is the driver file name.
Note: IBM recommends that you save the file to a floppy diskette.
9. Click Save.
10. Close the Web site.
11. From your host system Start menu, click Run.
12. In the Run window, ensure the drive letter is the same as the drive letter where
you saved the xxxxxxx.exe file in step 8. If no drive letter appears, type the
letter of the drive where you saved the driver file.
13. Type the driver file name after x:, where x is the drive letter you specified to
save the file.
14. Type the directory name where you want to put the file. Click Zip.
Note: IBM recommends that you save the file to a floppy diskette.
15. Click OK to unzip the current driver file.
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