EVA4000 ad LINUX Redhat AS 4 update 4

[samer1]

We have a problem when installing the driver of the FC card The driver from HP site does not work properly

[Patrick Terlisten]

Hello,

please tell us a litte bit more about you problem. My glass sphere is broken. ;)

- Which driver did you use?
- Error message?

Kind regards,
Patrick

[Steven E. Protter · Accepted solution]

Shalom,

The OS supports qlogic cards without modifification.

Show us dmesg on the system so we can help you out.

SEP

[Rainer Duffner_1]

You must install all the relevant RPMs for your installed kernel.
(Which, according to my educated guess, is the problem you neglected to describe precisely)

[root@blade2-2 ~]# rpm -qa |grep -i kern
kernel-2.6.9-42.EL
glibc-kernheaders-2.4-9.1.98.EL
kernel-utils-2.4-13.1.83
kernel-devel-2.6.9-42.EL
kernel-smp-devel-2.6.9-42.EL
kernel-smp-2.6.9-42.EL

Though, I must ask why this driver is
a) not included in the default install anyway (with QLAFAILOVER=1) - admittedly not entirely HPs fault.
or
b) why at not at least a driver-disk is provided?

It's pain to install a SAN-booting blade like this.

(Yes, I know that SAN-booting is not supported with RHEL4 - but without SAN-boot, blades absolutely suck.)