Dell Broadcom NetXtreme Family of Adapters Broadcom NetXtreme II Network Adapt - Page 50

Solaris Driver Software: Broadcom NetXtreme II Network Adapter User Guide Back to Contents Page Solaris Driver Software: Broadcom NetXtreme II Network Adapter User Guide Overview Installing the Driver Upgrading the Driver Uninstalling Driver Configuring the Driver Memory Usage Interrupt Management FCoE Support Overview This file describes how to install the Solaris driver for Broadcom's NetXtreme II 10 Gigabit Ethernet network adapters. Refer to the 'bnxe' manual page for details on how to configure the driver. The Solaris driver is released in two formats: BRCMbnxe-version.pkg: Datastream format BRCMbnxe-version.tar.Z: Compressed TAR file system format. NOTE: A DU image does not exist at this time because of driver size limitations. Solaris DU diskettes can be used to install the driver into the system both during system installation and/or after the system has been installed and booted. This driver only works with the GLDv3 Streams interface as it appears in Solaris 10 (Update 4) and later. Installing the Driver 1. Change directory to where BRCMbnxe-version.pkg resides. 2. pkgadd -d BRCMbnxe-version.pkg or 1. Copy BRCMbnxe-X.Y.Z.tar.Z to /tmp. 2. cd /tmp uncompress BRCMbnxe-version.tar.Z tar -xvf BRCMbnxe-version.tar pkgadd -d /tmp 3. Execute prtconf to determine instance numbers of the NIC. 4. ifconfig bnxe[instance_number] plumb 5. ifconfig bnxe[instance_number] ip_address netmask .... up To make these changes permanent: 1. Use your favorite text editor and create a file named hostname.bnxe[instance_number] in the /etc directory. Add the IP address of the interface to this file, save, and exit. 2. Add a proper subnet mask to the file /etc/netmasks. Upgrading the Driver file:///T|/htdocs/NETWORK/BroadCom/71921/NetXtremeII/en/solaris.htm[9/26/2012 3:28:52 PM]