QLogic 7104-2M-CABLE User Manual

5–Software Installation
Rebuild or Reinstall the kernel-ib Driver with rpm After a Kernel Upgrade

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The complete RPM directories for this download are organized as follows: 

InfiniPath_license.txt,LEGAL.txt (top level)
Documentation/
InfiniPath/
InfiniPath-Devel/
InfiniPath-MPI/
OtherMPIs/

If you upgrade the kernel, then you must reboot and then rebuild or reinstall the 
InfiniPath kernel modules (drivers). 

To rebuild the drivers, type the following (as a root user):

# cd /usr/src/qlogic_ib/kernel-ib-<version>
# ./make-install.sh
# /etc/init.d/openibd restart

An alternative method is to reinstall the InfiniPath kernel modules and then restart 
the InfiniPath service. To do so, type the following (as a root user):

# rpm -U --replacepkgs kernel-ib-*
# /etc/init.d/openibd restart

If the rpm install cannot correctly determine the underlying distribution/kernel 

combination, a warning message displays. This error can occur if you perform the 
installation on an unsupported distribution or on an unsupported 
distribution/kernel pair. 

In this case, use IPATH_DISTRO to override the distribution version provided in 

either the /etc/redhat-release file or the /etc/SuSE-release file.
Here is an example. These commands must be entered as a root user:

# export IPATH_DISTRO=2.6.18_EL5.1 KVER=2.6.18-53.1.14.el5
# cd /usr/src/qlogic_ib/kernel-ib-<version>
# ./make-install.sh
# /etc/init.d/openibd restart