LightPulse Adapters lpfc
Installation Kit

version

9.0

details

This site provides the Broadcom Emulex lpfc driver for use with Emulex LightPulse Adapters for SLES12SP5. Version 9.0 provides support for the full complement of adapters including:

  • LPe31000
  • LPe32000
  • LPe35000
  • LPe36000

platforms

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 Service Pack 5

architectures

  • x86_64

media


Installation Kit ISO Image
File: lightpulse_adapters_lpfc-sle12sp5-x86_64-9.0.iso · [download]
Size 104 MB
MD5 Checksum e5b256b307677edf003d3eed77fd641d
SHA256 Checksum 2407ddde55f4aadee9f43f5fd658d9b8b54aae206cf1b89bb1d7467613a310ad

installation

Media installation

  1. Burn the ISO image above to an empty CD/DVD media.
  2. Start the installation using the new CD/DVD media, having the standard SUSE Linux Enterprise media at hand or a URL to a network installation server.
    • If doing a network install, enter the URL of the network install source on the boot command line using the 'install=' option.
    • If doing installation from optical media the installer will first boot from the driver kit and then ask to insert CD1 of the SUSE Linux Enterprise product.
  3. An initrd containing updated drivers will be used for installation.

PXE boot installation

  1. Download the ISO image above.
  2. Mount the ISO image for access to the contents.
  3. Copy the kernel and initrd images from the driver kit iso image to the appropriate location on your tftp boot server. The initrd and kernel image are found under the ./install/boot/x86_64/loader directory. Download links for the kernel and initrd images can also be found in the table below.
  4. Copy the contents of the ISO image to a location on your installation server. (The /boot directory may be omitted)
  5. Add the URL of the driver kit location on the installation server to the boot command of the pxelinux config file using the 'addon=' option.
  6. An updated kernel will be used for installation and installed onto the system.

Example pxelinux config file section:

# Install SLES 12 SP5 with Installation Kit
label install-kit
kernel linux-kit
append initrd=initrd-kit splash=silent vga=0x314 showopts install=http://installserver/SLES-12-SP5-x86_64 addon=http://installserver/kit
            
Kernel Image
Name linux · [download]
Size 6.83 MB
MD5 Checksum 6e8d3a1c6afef96e75d6f32f15217464
SHA256 Checksum 7a32350eeda5a8707ffd619342b41451730f2ac8c415c5a74209dfb659a87a4b
Initrd Image
Name initrd · [download]
Size 80.6 MB
MD5 Checksum 49e8eb18072189bb3bd918ee05bb2556
SHA256 Checksum 9f0109b561782879b22bd4e641cb661d3f850e8b761f842d7f661d915b0ba08c

package names and versions

The following packages are provided with this installation kit: