Driver installation and removal on linux systems, Upgrading driver on windows systems – Dell Brocade Adapters User Manual
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Using software installation scripts and system commands
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brocade_install.bat W2K8_HOTFIX= “KB9987654:Required:newer_hotfix”
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Avoid checking for hot fix
brocade_install.bat W2K3_HOTFIX=""
Upgrading driver on Windows systems
To update the drivers, follow procedures under
“Installing and removing drivers on Windows
Notes:
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When upgrading the driver for Windows systems, you do not need to reboot the host system as
the driver upgrades immediately. The upgrade reloads the adapter firmware and reinitializes
the link.
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When upgrading Windows 2008 drivers on adapters used for booting over SAN, install the new
driver without removing the existing driver. If you remove the existing driver before installing a
new driver, installation may fail and the operating system will become unbootable.
Driver installation and removal on Linux systems
Use the install script to selectively install storage driver packages, network driver packages, and
utilities to Linux systems.
The driver package is provided as an RPM package. If you are using a supported Linux driver
package and standard host configuration, you can use these RPMs. Refer to
on page 43 for a description of packages and kernel versions that they
support.
1. Boot the host and log on with Administrator privileges.
2. Create an installation directory such as /opt/CNA or /opt/HBA, depending on your adapter.
3. Download the appropriate .tar.gz file for your Linux distribution. Refer to
on page 43 for a description of Linux driver packages.
4. Extract the driver packages to the directory you created in
using the following steps.
a. Enter a path or browse to the driver directory where you want to install the extracted files
when prompted (for example /opt/CNA or /opt/HBA). Note that you can specify a directory
other than the default directory.
b. To untar the source-based RPM for all RHEL and SLES Linux distributions.
tar -zxvf brocade_driver_linux_
c. To untar the precompiled RPMs for RHEL distributions.
tar -zxvf brocade_driver_linux__rhel_
d. To untar the precompiled RPMs for SLES distributions.
tar -zxvf brocade_driver_linux__sles_
5. Enter the following command to run the installer on RHEL and SLES systems:
brocade_install_rhel.sh
[-u,-h][--update\--add\--rm-initrd][--force-uninstall][--snmp] [--snmp-only]