Exablaze: Setup and Test

OS Detection

After the clean CentOS installation, the OS is able to detect the existence of the card:

[root@localhost ~]# lspci|grep -i exan
87:00.0 Ethernet controller: Exablaze ExaNIC X2

Driver Installation

1. go to http://exablaze.com/support/?serial=643f5f0123f8 and download the ExaNIC X2 Driver
2. untar the file

    tar xvzf exanic-1.4.2.tar.gz

3. build the driver from source

    cd exanic-1.4.2

    make

    make install

Note: By default, the library will be installed to /usr/local/lib/libexanic.a, include files to /usr/local/include/exanic and utilities to /usr/local/bin/exanic-*. (You can add a EFIX= argument to the make install command to use a prefix other than /usr/local.) Additionally the driver (exanic.ko) will be installed into /lib/modules/`uname `/extra. If the driver fails to build, ensure that you have the kernel headers package for your kernel installed (this is typically named kernel-devel [RedHat/CentOS] or inux-headers [Debian/Ubuntu]).