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IS0053301-00 D 5-1
Section 5
Red Hat Linux Driver Installation
5.1
Introduction
This section provides instructions for installing the Red Hat Linux driver on a Red
Hat Linux 7.2, 7.3, or 8.0 operating system. Earlier or later versions of Red Hat
Linux are not currently supported.
The latest version of the software drivers and documentation for Red Hat Linux are
available on the QLogic Web site (www.qlogic.com
). Be sure to review the
README.qla4xxx and release.txt files for both new and changed information.
There are two ways to install the Red Hat Linux driver:
■ Build a custom kernel that loads the driver automatically.
■ Build the driver from the source code. Then load the driver either manually or
through a RAMDISK image, which you must build.
Before installing the driver (either by a custom kernel or by the source code), you
must create a driver disk (see section 5.2).
5.2
Creating the Driver Disk
You can create the driver disk after downloading the driver from the QLogic web site.
The driver disk contains a compressed file, qla4xxxsrc-v1.xx.tgz. The installation
procedures, starting in section 5.3, provide instructions on how and when to
uncompress qla4xxxsrc-v1.xx.tgz, which contains the following files:
■ Makefile.kernel
■ Makefile
■ ql4drvr.c
■ ql4ioctl.c
■ ql4print.c
■ ql4lists.h
■ ql4print.h
■ qla4x_fw.h
■ qla4xxx.h
■ qlinioct.h
■ qlisioct.h
■ qlisioln.h
■ release.txt
■ revision.notes