Installing the Red Hat/SUSE Linux Drivers

To Install and Load the Red Hat/SUSE Linux Drivers

After you download the drivers, as described in Downloading the Red Hat/SUSE Linux Drivers, you can install the drivers by following the steps in this section:

1. To Build the Fibre Channel Driver
2. To Load the Newly Built Fibre Channel Driver

To Build the Fibre Channel Driver

The driver installation makes extensive use of the build.sh script, which is located in driver source (extras/build.sh).

From the source code, you can build a qla2xxx.ko module and a qla2xxx_conf.ko module for the host. You can then choose to load the driver manually or automatically, as described in To Load the Newly Built Fibre Channel Driver.

1. In the directory that contains the source driver file, qla2xxx-x.yy.zz-dist.tgz, use the commands shown in the following example.

   # tar -xvzf *.tgz
   # cd qlogic
   # ./drvrsetup (this extracts the source files directory into the current directory)
   # cd qla2xxx-x.yy.zz (x.yy indicates the driver version; zz indicates the file extension, which is typically .ko for kernel modules (binaries)).
   

2. Build and install the driver modules from the source code by executing the build.sh script.

   # ./extras/build.sh install
   

   This build script does the following:

   • Builds the driver .ko files.
   • Copies the .ko files to the appropriate directory: /lib/modules/2.6.../kernel/drivers/scsi/qla2xxx
   • Adds the appropriate directive in the modprobe.conf.local to remove the qla2xxx_conf module when unloading the qla2xxx module.
   • Updates the newly built qla2xxx_conf.ko module with any previously saved data in /etc/qla2xxx.conf.
3. Choose how you want to load the driver, as described in To Load the Newly Built Fibre Channel Driver.