Dell Emulex Family of Adapters - Manual (Page 818)

Emulex Drivers Version 10.2 for Linux User Manual P010081-01A Rev. A
2. Installing and Uninstalling
Ethernet Driver Kit
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Ethernet Driver Kit
The Ethernet driver kit includes the driver that supports the NIC protocol. The Ethernet
driver kit contains the following:
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A zipped tar file that includes the driver binary RPMs for a specific driver
version, and for all of the supported Linux distribution kernels.
Note: Use only officially-released Linux distribution kernels. The binary RPM
packages only support officially-released Linux distribution kernels,
and do not support pre-release distribution kernels.

An installation script, elx_net_install.sh, which installs (by default) the Ethernet
driver binary RPM that corresponds to the target system's architecture and
kernel memory variant.
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A README file that provides a description of the kit structure, its contents, and
distribution support scope.
Installing the Ethernet Driver Kit
Note: Remove any previously installed Ethernet driver kits that were installed from
the Emulex website (that is, those that were not part of a distribution’s kernel),
before proceeding. See “Uninstalling the Ethernet Driver Kit” in the following
section for more information.
To install the Ethernet driver:
1. Download the appropriate driver kit from the Emulex website.
2. Log in as “root” to a terminal, and unpack the tarball:
tar xzf elx-be2net-dd-<driver version>.tar.gz
3. Change to the directory that is extracted:
cd elx-be2net-dd-<driver version>/
4. Run the elx_net_install script without options to install the driver kit:
./elx_net_install.sh
Once the elx_net_install.sh script has finished running successfully, the Emulex
Ethernet driver is loaded, and devices that are connected to the system are
accessible.
5. Reboot the system to enable the newly added driver options in the ramdisk. You
can also reboot the system later.