HP AB379A and AB379B PCI-X 2.0 Dual-Port 4Gb FC Adapters for Itanium Linux and Windows Installation Guide

3 Installing and conﬁguring the

Linux driver

This chapter provides instructions for installing the Linux qla2xxx driver (xxx is the kit date string) for the

PCI-X 2.0 single-port and dual-port HBAs on an already installed Red Hat™ Enterprise Linux (Red Hat EL)

or SUSE™Linux Enterprise Server (SUSE SLES) system.

You can obtain the software kit for the driver from the following HP web site:

ttp://h18006.www1.hp.com/storage/saninfrastructure.html.

To install the driver, you must be familiar with the operating system under which the HBA is to operate,

and have access to standard system documentation.

To install the driver, use the procedures and information in the following sections:

• Prerequisites, page 17

• Installing the driver kit,page17

•

Using the RPM,page18

•

Conﬁguring the HBAs,page19

Prerequisites

Perform the following tasks before you install the drivers:

• Obtain the

HP StorageWorks QLogic host bus adapters for Itanium Linux and Windows, release

notes, available on the HP web site

ttp://h18006.www1.hp.com/storage/saninfrastructure.html.

• Be familia

r with the operating system under which the HBA is to operate, and have access

to standard system documentation.

Installing the driver kit

HP recommends that you install the complete driver kit for these HBAs. The kit contains the driver and

utilities you need to deploy these HBAs on Linux.

NOTE:

You must install the gcc compiler and the kernel sources or kernel development packages on your

system before installing the driver kit.

To install the complete HP driver kit, copy the .gz ﬁle to your system and enter the following commands:

# tar -zxvf hp_qla2x00-xxx.tar.gz

# cd hp_qla2xxx

# ./INSTALL

The xxx isthekitdatestring.

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