AT-2973SX, AT-2973T, AT-2973T/4, and AT-VNC10S Adapters Installation and User’s Guide
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Building the bnx2i Driver
To build the bnx2i Linux driver from the Source TAR file, do the following:
1. Create a directory and extract the TAR files to the directory by entering
the following command:
tar xvzf bnx2-version.tar.gz
2. Build the driver bnx2.ko as a loadable module for the running kernel by
entering the following command:
cd bnx2i-version/drivermake
3. Test the driver by loading it (if necessary, first unload the existing
driver). Enter the following commands:
rmmod bnx2i
insmod bnx2i.ko
4. Install the driver and man page, by entering:
make install
Note
See the “Installing the Source RPM Package” on page 68 for the
location of the installed driver.
5. Install the user daemon (bnx2id), by entering:
cd ${DRV_BASE}/driver
make install_usr
The make install_usr command installs the bnx2id binary under
/sbin.
To use Broadcom iSCSI, see “Load and Run Necessary iSCSI
Software Components” on page 71 to load the necessary software
components.
Load and Run Necessary iSCSI Software Components The Broadcom iSCSI Offload software suite consists of three kernel
modules and a user daemon. To load the required software components
either manually or through system services, do the following:
1. Unload existing driver and kill the user daemon, if necessary. Do the
following:
Manual:
rmmod bnx2i
pkill -9 bnx2id