Installing and Uninstalling the MZ912 Drivers in the OS

The MZ912 drivers vary according to the OS. This section describes how to install the MZ912 drivers in SLES 11 and Windows Server 2008.

If no driver version is specified, obtain the latest driver package from FusionServer iDriver. If the driver version is specified, obtain the driver version from FusionServer iDriver.

Figure 4-42 MZ912 driver version information for SLES 11

To install the lpfc driver in SLES 11, perform the following steps:

1. Copy the driver package (.tat.gz file) to the OS, for example, FC driver elx-lpfc-dd-sles11sp-8.3.7.18-1-1.tar.gz.
2. Go to the lpfc driver file directory, and run the driver installation file (.sh file).

   #./elx_lpfc_install.sh

To uninstall the lpfc driver in SLES 11, perform the following steps:

1. Go to the lpfc driver file directory, and run the driver installation file (.sh file), with the –u parameter added to the command.

   #./elx_lpfc_install.sh –u

To install the ixgbe driver in SLES 11, perform the following steps:

1. Upload the driver package 82599_sles11sp1_3.15.1.tar.gz to the system. See Figure 4-43
   Figure 4-43 MZ912 driver information
   

2. Run the tar xvfz 82599_sles11sp1_3.15.1.tar.gz command to decompress the driver package. See Figure 4-44
   Figure 4-44 Decompressing the driver package
   

3. Run the ls command to view the ixgbe-3.15.1 directory generated after the decompression. Then run the cd ixgbe-3.15.1/ command to go to this directory. Finally, run the cd src/ command to go to the src directory. See Figure 4-45.
   Figure 4-45 MZ912 driver version information
   

4. Run the make;make install command to install the driver, and then run the rmmod ixgbe;modprobe ixgbe command to reload the driver. See Figure 4-46.
   Figure 4-46 Installing and reloading the driver
   
   

5. Run the modinfo command to view the version information of the Ethernet driver (ixgbe) for SLES 11. See Figure 4-47.
   Figure 4-47 MZ912 driver version information for SLES 11
   

To uninstall the ixgbe driver in SLES 11, perform the following steps:

1. Run the rm $(modinfo ixgbe|grep filename|awk '{print $2}') command to uninstall the driver file.
2. Run the rmmod ixgbe command to uninstall the loaded driver module.

Windows

For details about how to download the driver software package, see Installing Drivers and Firmware > Preparing for Installation in Huawei Server OS Installation Guide.

The MZ912 drivers in Windows include Ethernet (82599), FC (FC), and FCoE (FCoE) drivers, as shown in Figure 4-48.

Figure 4-48 MZ912 driver files in Windows Server 2008

On Windows, double-click the .exe driver file to install the driver.

To uninstall the driver from Windows, open Device Manager, double-click the MZ912 port, select Driver in the displayed window, and click Uninstall.