Installation guide

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8 – Red Hat Linux Driver Installation
Extracting and Loading the
Red Hat Linux Driver
If you are running on an SMP system, load the SMP version of the driver
qla2x00smp. For example:
insmod qla2x00smp
NOTE: This method loads the Red Hat Linux driver for the current operating
session. When you reboot the system, you must reload the QLogic driver.
If you want the driver to load automatically each time the system boots,
follow the instructions in section 8.4.
8.3.2
Extracting and Loading the Red Hat Linux 6.2 Driver
Perform the following steps to extract and load the Red Hat Linux driver in an
already installed Red Hat Linux 6.2 kernel (version 2.2.14-5.0 or 2.2.14-6.1)
system.
1. Create a directory on the boot drive of the computer to store the driver. For
example:
mkdir /home/qla2x00
2. Insert the diskette that contains the QLogic driver.
3. Change the current directory to the Linux driver directory. For example:
cd /home/qla2x00
4. Copy the Linux driver file to the directory created in step 2. For example:
mcopy a:* /home/qla2x00
5. Change the current directory to the root directory. For example:
cd /
6. Extract the modules from the archive. For example:
zcat
/home/qla2x00/qla2x00-vXX.YY.ZZ-2.2.14.cpio.gz
| cpio -id
NOTE: Insert the driver version number in place of XX.YY.ZZ, for
example, 02.19.02.
7. Load the module. For example:
modprobe qla2x00