Allied Telesis AT-2973T/4, AT-2973SX manual Bnx2i Driver, Bnx2 Driver Bnx2i iSCSI Driver, Format

AT-2973SX, AT-2973T, and AT-2973T/4 NetExtreme II Family Adapters Installation and User’s Guide

bnx2i Driver

The current version of the driver has been tested on 2.6.x kernels, starting from 2.6.18 kernel. The driver may not compile on older kernels with the exception of SLES 10 SP1, which runs the 2.6.16.46 kernel. SUSE upgraded the iscsi_transport kernel module in SLES 10 SP1. In addition, Broadcom iSCSI offload initiators is supported on SLES 10 SP1. Testing is concentrated on i386 and x86_64 architectures, Red Hat EL5, and SUSE 10 SP1 distributions.

Packaging The Linux driver is released in the packaging formats shown in Table 5. The NetXtreme2 package contains the bnx2 (1 Gb network adapter) and drivers for source RPM and compressed tar.

Table 5. Linux Driver Packaging

Format	bnx2 Driver	bnx2i (iSCSI) Driver
Source RPM	netxtreme2-	bnx2i-version.src.rpm
	version.src.rpm
Compressed tar	netxtreme2-	bnx2i-version.tar.gz
	version.tar.gz
Supplemental tar	netxtreme2_sup-	bnx2i_sup-version.tar.gz
	version.tar.gz

Identical source files to build the driver are included in both RPM and TAR source packages. The supplemental tar file contains additional utilities such as patches and driver diskette images for network installation.

The following updated open-iSCSI components are released in source RPM format:

iscsi-initiator-utils-6.2.0.868-0.7c.src.rpm: updated open-iscsi for Red Hat 5 distributions

open-iscsi-2.0.707-0.25b.src.rpm: updated open-iscsi components for SLES 10 SP1 distribution

open-iscsi-2.0.707-0.44b.src.rpm: updated open-iscsi components for SLES 10 SP2 distribution

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