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Linux Driver Installation

This section describes how to install and test the Mellanox OFED for Linux package on a single server

with a Mellanox ConnectX-6 adapter card installed.

Prerequisites

Requirements Description

Platforms A server platform with a ConnectX-6 InfiniBand/VPI adapter

card installed

ConnectX®-6 (VPI, IB, EN) (firmware: fw-ConnectX6)

Required Disk Space for Installation 1GB

Device ID For the latest list of device IDs, please visit the Mellanox

website athttp://www.mellanox.com/page/

firmware_HCA_FW_identification.

Operating System Linux operating system.

For the list of supported operating system distributions and

kernels, please refer to the

Mellanox OFED Release Notes

file.

InstallerPrivileges The installation requires administrator (root) privileges on

the target machine.

Downloading Mellanox OFED

Verify that the system has a Mellanox network adapter installed.

The following example shows a system with an installed Mellanox adapter card:

# lspci -v | grep Mellanox

86:00.0 Network controller [0207]: Mellanox Technologies TBD Family

Subsystem: Mellanox Technologies Device 0014

86:00.1 Network controller [0207]: Mellanox Technologies TBD Family

Subsystem: Mellanox Technologies Device 0014

Download the ISO image to your host.

The image’s name has the formatMLNX_OFED_LINUX-<ver>-<OS label><CPU arch>.iso.

You can download and install the latest OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) software

package available via the Mellanox web site athttp://www.mellanox.com> Products > Software

> InfiniBand/VPIDrivers > Linux SW/Drivers > Download..

Scroll down to the Download wizard, and click the Download tab.

Choose your relevant package depending on your host operating system.

Click the desired ISO/tgz package.

To obtain the download link, accept the End User License Agreement (EULA).

Use the md5sum utility to confirm the file integrity of your ISO image. Run the following

command and compare the result to the value provided on the download page.

md5sum MLNX_OFED_LINUX-<ver>-<OS label>.iso

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