Users Guide

7–Linux Driver Software
Installing Linux Driver Software
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2. Change the directory to the RPM path and build the binary RPM for your
kernel.
For RHEL:
cd ~/rpmbuild
rpmbuild -bb SPECS/netxtreme2.spec
For SLES:
cd /usr/src/packages
rpmbuild -bb SPECS/netxtreme2.spec
3. Install the newly compiled RPM:
rpm -ivh RPMS/<arch>/netxtreme2-<version>.<arch>.rpm
The --force option may be needed on some Linux distributions if
conflicts are reported.
4. For FCoE offload, install the Open-FCoE utility.
For RHEL 7.5 and later, the version of fcoe-utils or open-fcoe
included in your distribution is sufficient and no out of box upgrades are
provided.
Where available, installation with yum will automatically resolve
dependencies. Otherwise, required dependencies can be located on your
OS installation media.
5. For SLES 12 SP3 and later, and SLES 15 and later, turn on the FCoE and
link layer discover protocol agent daemon (lldpad) services for FCoE offload,
and just lldpad for iSCSI-offload-TLV as follows:
chkconfig lldpad on
chkconfig fcoe on
6. Inbox drivers are included with all of the supported operating systems.
Rebooting is the simplest means to ensure the newly installed drivers are
loaded.
NOTE
For RHEL 8, install the kernel-rpm-macros and
kernel-abi-whitelists package before building the binary RPM.