[Openib-windows] how to install windows openib drivers?

[Jeremy Enos]

I'm not sure how to tell what model I have using Windows short of 
opening the box up, but it's remote to me at the moment.  However, on a 
linux box pulled from the same batch, lspci yields:

02:0b.0 PCI bridge: Mellanox Technologies MT23108 PCI Bridge (rev a1)
03:00.0 InfiniBand: Mellanox Technologies MT23108 InfiniHost (rev a1)

I'm not 100% until I open the box of course, but in this particular case 
I am 99.9% sure the windows box is using the same card.  It doesn't find 
anything when I point it to the HCA directory.  But you're saying that 
should work w/ the 23108, right?  This is likely a novice question, but 
what do "Tavor" and "Arbel" refer to?  The different chipsets?
thx-

    Jeremy Enos

Fabian Tillier wrote:

>Hi Jeremy,
>
>On 4/1/06, Jeremy Enos <jenos at ncsa.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>  
>
>>I must be missing something simple, but I can't seem to figure out how
>>to install any openib drivers on Windows2003 Compute Cluster Edition
>>x64.  I downloaded the net.zip and hca.zip, and no driver is found there
>>for my unknown pci devices.  I can't find any step by step instructions,
>>or any instructions at all for that matter, on how to install openib on
>>Windows.
>>    
>>
>
>What model of HCA do you have?  Currently, only Tavor (MT23108) and
>Arbel in Tavor compatibility mode (MT25208) are supported.  There's a
>driver for the rest of the Mellanox HCAs but it is not yet part of any
>build (that will change soon).
>
>When you have Windows search for drivers for the HCA, point it to the
>HCA directory (where ever you unzipped the hca.zip).  If it doesn't
>find a match, then the HCA is not supported yet.
>
>There are only a few issues left to resolve in the new driver and once
>those are fixed I will be doing a new build.  My goal is to do this in
>the next week or two.
>
>- Fab
>  
>