QLogic 7104-10M-CABLE User Manual

A–Installation Troubleshooting
BIOS Settings

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This section covers issues related to BIOS settings. You can check and adjust 
BIOS settings using the BIOS Setup utility. For specific instructions, follow the 
hardware documentation that came with your system.

This setting must be enabled. If ACPI is disabled, it may cause initialization 
problems, as described in the Troubleshooting section of the QLogic Host 
Channel Adapter and QLogic OFED Software Users Guide. 

The QLogic adapter may not be recognized at startup when using the Supermicro 
H8DCE-HT-e and the QHT7040 adapter. To fix this problem, set the operating 
system selector option in the BIOS for Linux. The option will look like:

OS Installation [Linux]

Some problems can be found by running ipath_checkout. Run 
ipath_checkout before contacting technical support. 

Install the kernel-source, kernel-devel, and, if using an older release, 
kernel-smp-devel RPMs for your distribution before installing the InfiniPath 

RPMs, as there are dependencies. 

 lists all the required 

packages.

Use the uname -a command to find out which kernel is currently running, to 

make sure that you install the version with which it matches. 

If these RPMs have not been installed, you will see error messages like this when 
installing InfiniPath:

Building and installing InfiniPath modules for 2.6.16_sles10
2.6.16.21-0.8-debug kernel
*** ERROR: /lib/modules/2.6.16.21-0.8-debug/build/.config is 
missing.
***        Is the kernel-source rpm for 2.6.16.21-0.8-debug 
installed?
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