EMC P/N 300-002-803 manual Enabling the QLogic driver in Rhel, Reboot the host

Installing and Configuring the Linux Host with the QLogic Driver

Installation instructions for the in kernel QLogic driver for Linux 2.4.x kernel

The section contains the following instructions for enabling the

QLogic driver:

◆“Enabling the QLogic driver in RHEL 3.0” on page 53

◆“Enabling the QLogic driver in SLES 8” on page 54

Enabling the QLogic driver in RHEL 3.0

To enable this driver, follow these steps:

1.Ensure that the /etc/modules.conf file references an entry for each installed QLogic adapter.

For each installed QLogic QLA23xx-series adapter, add an entry: alias scsi_hostadapterN qla2300

where N is the sequential value of each QLogic adapter installed in the system, beginning with the number after the last host adapter number entry in the file. (The first host adapter entry begins with zero.)

Example:

alias scsi_hostadapter1 qla2300 alias scsi_hostadapter2 qla2300 alias eth0 tg3

options scsi_mod max_scsi_luns=255 scsi_allow_ghost_devices=1

2.Whenever /etc/modules.conf is modified, a new ramdisk should be created to reflect the changes made. Create a new ramdisk image to include the newly added references to the QLogic adapters:

cd /boot

mkinitrd -v initrd-$1.img $1

where $1 is the v2.4.x kernel version currently running. Example:

mkinitrd -v initrd-2.4.21-27.ELsmp.img 2.4.21-27.ELsmp

3.Reboot the host.

Fibre Channel and FCoE in kernel driver versions

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