User`s guide

13 – Solaris SPARC Driver and SANblade Control FX Installation
Installing the Solaris SPARC Driver and SANblade Control FX from the QLogic Web
Site
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Installing the Solaris SPARC Driver and SANblade Control FX from the
QLogic Web Site
Perform the following steps to download the Solaris SPARC driver from the web to
your hard disk, then install the driver on your system.
NOTE: To install the QLA2300 driver, you must have superuser privileges.
1. Log on to the system as a superuser.
2. Download the driver package from the QLogic Web site (www.qlogic.com
) to a
directory on the Solaris machine’s hard disk.
3. At the command prompt, change the directory (cd) to the directory where the
file was downloaded.
4. At the command prompt, type:
uncompress ./qla2300_pkg.Z
5. Step 4 produces a file in the same directory called qla2300_pkg.
6. At the command prompt in the directory where the file was uncompressed, type:
pkgadd -d ./qla2300_pkg
7. You are prompted to select a driver package. For example:
The following packages are available:
1 QLA2300-1 QLogic QLA2300 driver
(sparc) Solaris 2.6, Rev=X.XX
2 QLA2300-2 QLogic QLA2300 driver
(sparc) Solaris 7, Rev=X.XX
3 QLA2300-3 QLogic QLA2300 driver
(sparc) Solaris 8-9, Rev=X.XX
4 QSLDMLIB QLogic SDM Library
(sparc) Solaris 7-8-9, Rev=X.XX
5 QLSDMLIB6 QLogic SDM Library
(sparc) Solaris 2.6, Rev=X.XX
6 scfx2-6 QLogic SANblade Control FX (HBA Configuration
Utility (sparc) Solaris 2.6, 7, Rev=X.XX
7 scfx2-8 QLogic SANblade Control FX (HBA Configuration
Utility (sparc) Solaris 8-9, Rev=X.XX
Select package(s) you wish to process (or ’all’
to process all packages). (default: all)
[?,??,q]:
NOTE: The revision number, X.XX, indicates the most recent version of the
driver.