[ofa-general] installing and running ofed3 on debian

[Vladimir Sokolovsky]

Murray Smigel wrote:
> Hi,
> I am running debian etch on x86-64 hardware. I am using Mellanox 
> ConnectX HCAs.
> At the moment I just have two machines connected by a cable for testing.
> 
> I extracted the sources from the OFED-3.0 release SRPMS and built them.
> I took a fresh 2.6.24 linux source tree and built a kernel after 
> replacing the
> drivers/infiniband and include/rdma directories with those from the 
> ofa_kernel-1.3.
> The build and install went smoothly.
> 
> After the boot with the new kernel:
> nasnu2:/etc/udev/rules.d# dmesg | grep mlx
> mlx4_core: Mellanox ConnectX core driver v0.01 (May 1, 2007)
> mlx4_core: Initializing 0000:0b:00.0
> 
> 
> modprobe ib_uverbs
> modprobe ib_umad
> modprobe ib_uverbs
> modprobe ib_ucm
> 
> nasnu2:/usr/local/bin# lsmod | grep mlx
> mlx4_core              72608  0
> 

Try:
 > modprobe mlx4_ib

Regards,
Vladimir