topic Re: Emulex Driver in Operating System - Linux

Emulex Driver

C'est Pierre — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 05:47:53 GMT

Hello,

I am trying to install a driver for the emulex cards in our server (HP Proliant DL-560 G1). It comes with the following FC cards:

03:01.0 Fibre Channel: Emulex Corporation LP952 Fibre Channel Adapter (rev 01)
06:02.0 Fibre Channel: Emulex Corporation LP952 Fibre Channel Adapter (rev 01)

We are running SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 with service pack 3 in place. When I installed the rpm with the drivers that I found on HP (hp-lpfc-7.3.4-4.linux.rpm), everything compiled and worked well, however, there're failed dependencies:

tpknt31:~ # /opt/hp/hp-lpfc/elxlpfc start
Starting Emulex DFC driver: modprobe: Can't locate module lpfcdfc
failed

Anyone been through this situation?

Thank you

Re: Emulex Driver

Sung Oh — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 14:53:47 GMT

Hi,

Have you checked /usr/src/kernels/${kernel release version}/modules/ directory for Emulex driver module? when you compilied your driver, you should have elxlpfc.o and other modules copied over to your current kernel version directory.

Regards,
Sung

Re: Emulex Driver

dirk dierickx — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 02:19:03 GMT

module dependencies can be (re)build with the 'depmod' command. the result is located in the /lib/modules//modules.dep file.

you can check this file if the required module is included. but it should be if it is in the modules directory and running depmod.

Re: Emulex Driver

C'est Pierre — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 06:26:53 GMT

Sung Oh: There's no such dir, perhaps you mean /lib/modules/kernel-version/* ?

Dirk: I had already run depmod, the thing is: there's a missing driver, that's the dependency of the ones I tried to install! lpfcdfc.o doesn't exist and it should.

Starting Emulex DFC driver: modprobe: Can't locate module lpfcdfc
failed

That's where everything's going wrong! where do I get this missing dependency?

Thank you!

Re: Emulex Driver

Alan_152 — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 10:19:37 GMT

I'd recommend that you run up2date, or whatever the equivalent is under SuSE, to update everything on your system.

Re: Emulex Driver

Mike Stroyan — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 10:23:12 GMT

That rpm includes the source for the lpfcdfc module. It should have been built and put in place when you ran "rpm -i". You can repeat the building of the modules by running "opt/hp/hp-lpfc/master.sh".

Re: Emulex Driver

Sung Oh — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 13:49:15 GMT

Hi,

Sung Oh: There's no such dir, perhaps you mean /lib/modules/kernel-version/* ?

Sorry, you are right under /lib/modules/kernel-version directory.

Regards,
Sung

Re: Emulex Driver

Sung Oh — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 13:51:38 GMT

Hi,

You can try to download Emulex driver from emulex website and compile. this should give you what you need.

http://www.emulex.com/ts/downloads/linuxfc/linux.html

Regards,
Sung