User`s guide

14 – SuSE Linux Driver Installation

Installing the Driver

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14.3.1

Building a Uniprocessor (UP) Version of the Driver

Perform the following steps to build a UP version of the qla2xxx driver:

1. Install the kernel-source from the SuSE distribution CD-ROM by typing:

# yast or

# yast2

2. Create a soft link (–/usr/src/linux) to the kernel source

(–/usr/src/<linux-version>) by typing:

# ln -sf /usr/src/<linux-version> /usr/src/linux

3. To ensure kernel version synchronization between the driver and running

kernel, type the following:

# cp /boot/vmlinuz.version.h /lib/modules/'uname -r'/build/

include/linux/version.h

4. Create a new directory, /qla2x00. Using the disk created in section 14.2, copy

the qla2x00-vx.yy.zz-dist.tgz file to /qla2x00 and extract the files. For example:

# mkdir qla2x00

# cd qla2x00

# mount /mnt/floppy

# cp /mnt/floppy/*.tgz . (The period (.) at the end is required.)

# tar -xvzf *.tgz

# cd qlogic

# ./drvrsetup (This step extracts the driver source files into the current

directory.)

5. Build the driver qla2300.o from the source code by typing:

# make all OSVER=linux

NOTE: Refer to Makefile for additional supported command line parameters.

After building a UP version of the driver, you must load the driver by one of the

following methods:

■

Manually (see section 14.3.3)

■

Through a RAMDISK image, which you must build (see section 14.3.4)