Dell Mellanox Family of Adapters - Manual (Page 21)

User Manual for Mellanox ConnectX®-3 10/40 Gigabit Ethernet Adapters for Dell PowerEdge Servers Rev 1.1
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4 Driver Installation and Configuration
4.1 Linux Driver
For Linux, download and install the latest Linux Drivers for Mellanox ConnectX-3 Ethernet
adapters software package available on the Dell support site
http://www.dell.com/support For
driver installation instructions, please refer to Dell documentation via http://www.dell.com/sup-
port.
4.1.1 Installation Requirements
Required Disk Space for Installation
• 100 MB
Software Requirements
• Linux operating system
Installer Privileges
• The installation requires administrator privileges on the target machine
4.1.2 Downloading Mellanox OFED
Step 1. Verify that the system has a Mellanox network adapter (NIC) installed by ensuring that you can
see ConnectX-3 in the display.
The following example shows a system with an installed Mellanox NIC:
Step 2. Download the software release to your host.
The software release name has the format MLNX_OFED_LINUX-.tar.gz
Step 3. Use the md5sum utility to confirm the file integrity of your software release. Run the following
command and compare the result to the value provided on the download page.
4.1.3 Installing Mellanox OFED
The installation script, install.sh , performs the following:
• Discovers the currently installed kernel
• Uninstalls any software stacks that are part of the standard operating system distribution
or another vendor's commercial stack
• Installs the MLNX_OFED_LINUX binary RPMs (if they are available for the current
kernel)
For the list of supported operating system distributions and kernels, release notes for the
applicable software download on the Dell support site:
http://www.dell.com/support .
host1# lspci -v | grep Mellanox
27:00.0 Network controller: Mellanox Technologies MT27500 Family [ConnectX-3]
host1$ md5sum MLNX_OFED_LINUX-.tar.gz