Optics Driver Installation
Overview
If you did not connect to the HSRN with fiber, please skip this page .
This guide is meant to walk through the installation of drivers necessary to utilize fiber connections with the HSRN. This varies by both vendor and operating system. The HSRN team will expand this guide as more network cards are tested, however they will follow the same general format.
Mellanox/NVIDIA
This guide will cover the installation of drivers for NVIDIA Cards (ConnectX). Note: The download process recently changed as NVIDIA moved towards the DOCA platform.
Download Utility
Navigate to the NVIDIA DOCA Download page. This page will ask you a series of prompts that eventually output installation instructions. This page may change as updates are released. We have added some notes below to aid in the installation process.
- Host or BlueField? - For any ConnectX cards, select the host-server option.
- Deployment package? - For any ConnectX cards, select the DOCA-Host option.
- Profile? - For users that only want to connect to the network, select the doca-ofed option.
Offline Installation
If you need to install DOCA without a network installation, follow the above steps but select deb (local) for the Installer Type. The first command should be a wget to download the installation file. Enter this command on a device with internet connectivity then transfer the file to some installation media, such as a USB drive, and continue the installation process. Alternatively, use the IPMI virtual media mounting process to handle this remotely with an IPMI-enabled machine.
Switch to Ethernet
NVIDIA VPI cards are set to Infiniband by default. This protocol cannot be supported on most networks and must be switched to Ethernet mode.