Q-Logic IB0056101-00 G.02, OFED manual Software Installation

A		Software Installation
	Rebuilding or Reinstalling the kernel-ibDriver with rpm After a Kernel Upgrade

The complete RPM directories for this download are organized as follows:

InfiniPath_license.txt,LEGAL.txt (top level)

Documentation/

InfiniPath/

InfiniPath-Devel/

InfiniPath-MPI/

OtherMPIs/

Rebuilding or Reinstalling the kernel-ibDriver with rpm After a Kernel Upgrade

If you upgrade the kernel, then you must reboot and then rebuild or reinstall the InfiniPath kernel modules (drivers).

To rebuild the drivers, do the following (as root):

#cd /usr/src/qlogic ib/kernel-ib-<version>

#./make-install.sh

#/etc/init.d/openibd restart

An alternative method is to reinstall the InfiniPath kernel modules and then restart the InfiniPath service. Type (as root):

#rpm -U --replacepkgs kernel-ib-*

#/etc/init.d/openibd restart

Rebuilding the kernel-ibDriver on an Unsupported Distribution or an Unsupported Distribution/Kernel Pair

If the rpm install can’t correctly determine the underlying distribution/kernel combination, you will see a warning message. This can occur if you try to install on an unsupported distribution or an unsupported distribution/kernel pair.

In this case you need to use IPATH DISTRO to override the distribution version provided in either the /etc/redhat-releasefile or the /etc/SuSE-releasefile.

Here is an example. These commands must be done as root:

#export IPATH_DISTRO=2.6.18_EL5.1 KVER=2.6.18-53.1.14.el5

#cd /usr/src/qlogic_ib/kernel-ib-<version>

#./make-install.sh

#/etc/init.d/openibd restart

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