Q-Logic 2300 manual Loading the Driver, # mcopy a*.tgz . The period . at the end is required

	9 – Red Hat Linux Driver Installation
￿	Install or Update the Driver (Installed Operating
		System)

9.4.2

Loading the Driver

The qla2x00 or qla2300 driver must be loaded before the system can access the devices attached to the QLA23xx HBA. To build a custom kernel to automatically load the driver at boot time, see section 9.4.2.1. To build a ramdisk image to automatically load the qla2x00 driver at boot time, see section 9.4.2.2. To load the qla2x00 driver manually, see section 9.4.2.3. To build a ramdisk image to automatically load the qla2300 driver at boot time, see section 9.4.2.4. To load the qla2300 driver manually, see section section 9.4.2.5.

9.4.2.1

Building a Custom Kernel to Load the qla2x00 (v4.x) Driver Automatically

The kernel automatically loads the qla2x00 driver at boot time if you include it in a custom kernel. Perform the following steps to build a custom kernel:

1.Copy the qla2x00src-vx.xx.tgz file on the qla2x00 source code driver floppy disk you created in section 9.2.3 to the /home/qla2x00 directory on the boot drive. Extract the driver source and additional information files from the .tgz file. For example:

#cd /home

#mkdir qla2x00

#cd /home/qla2x00

#mcopy a:*.tgz . (The period [.] at the end is required.)

#tar -xvzf qla*.tgz

2.Extract the kernel-header and kernel-source RPM files from the first Red Hat CD-ROM.

#cd /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS

#rpm -iv kernel-headers*.rpm

#rpm -iv kernel-source*.rpm

3.Add the driver to the kernel.

NOTE: These instructions are for qla2x00 (in Red Hat Linux 6.2, 7.0, 7.1, and 7.2). The line number listed may not be correct for other releases of the kernel.

The following details are from addkernel.txt, which can be obtained from the following source:

#tar -xvzf qla2x00src-x.xx.tgz

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