33••••1.Firmware The firmware of existing network adapter devices will be updated if thefollowing two conditions are fulfilled:The installation script is run in default mode; that is, withoutthe option ‘--without-fw-update’The firmware version of the adapter device is older than thefirmware version included with the Mellanox OFED ISO imageNote: If an adapter’s flash was originally programmed with anExpansion ROM image, the automatic firmware update will alsoburn an Expansion ROM image.In case that your machine has an unsupported network adapter device,no firmware update will occur and the error message below will beprinted.The firmware for this device is not distributed inside Mellanox driver:0000:01:00.0 (PSID: IBM2150110033)To obtain firmware for this device, please contact your HW vendor.Installation LogsWhile installing MLNX_OFED, the install log for each selected package will be saved in a separate logfile. The path to the directory containing the log files will be displayed after running the installationscript in the following format: "Logs dir: /tmp/MLNX_OFED_LINUX-..logs".Example:Logs dir: /tmp/MLNX_OFED_LINUX-4.4-1.0.0.0.63414.logsopenibd ScriptAs of MLNX_OFED v2.2-1.0.0 the openibd script supports pre/post start/stop scripts:This can be controlled by setting the variables below in the /etc/infiniband/openibd.conf file.OPENIBD_PRE_STARTOPENIBD_POST_STARTOPENIBD_PRE_STOPOPENIBD_POST_STOPExample:OPENIBD_POST_START=/sbin/openibd_post_start.shDriver Load Upon System BootUpon system boot, the Mellanox drivers will be loaded automatically.To prevent automatic load of the Mellanox drivers upon system boot:Add the following lines to the "/etc/modprobe.d/mlnx.conf" file.An example of OPENIBD_POST_START script for activating all interfaces is provided in theMLNX_OFED package under the docs/scripts/openibd-post-start-configure-interfaces/ folder. PreviousNext |