Allied Telesis AT-2973T/4, AT-2973SX manual Unloading the Driver from an RPM Installation

Chapter 6: Installing the Linux Drivers

Load and Run

Necessary iSCSI

Software

Components

Unloading the Linux Driver

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

Using system service: service bnx2id stop

2.Load the iSCSI driver and the user daemon. Do the following: Manual:

bnx2id

insmod bnx2i.ko or

modprobe bnx2i

Using system service: service bnx2id start

You can unload, or remove, the Linux Driver from an RPM or TAR installation. See the following:

“Unloading the Driver from an RPM Installation” on page 72

“Unloading the Driver from a TAR Installation” on page 73

Unloading the Driver from an RPM Installation

This section describes how to unload, or remove, a Linux driver from an RPM installation.

Note

The examples used in this procedure refer to the bnx2 driver, but also apply to the bnx2i driver.

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