upgrading megaraid driver on Debian

[Michael Blinn]

I've compiled the megaraid_sas module using the current kernel in 
Ubuntu, and have directions for how to do this yourself. However, it 
still appears that OMSA is not seeing the new module.

/sbin/modinfo megaraid_sas:
filename:       
/lib/modules/2.6.24-16-generic/kernel/drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_sas.ko
description:    LSI MegaRAID SAS Driver
author:         megaraidlinux at lsi.com
version:        00.00.03.16-rc1
license:        GPL
srcversion:     F2A82D9318011A7916608B6
alias:          pci:v00001028d00000015sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v00001000d00000413sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v00001000d0000007Csv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v00001000d00000060sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v00001000d00000411sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
depends:        scsi_mod
vermagic:       2.6.24-16-generic SMP mod_unload 586
parm:           poll_mode_io:Complete cmds from IO path, (default=0) (int)


However, in the web interface of OMSA under 
System->Storage->PERC6/i->Firmware/Driver it still shows the driver 
version as 00.00.03.10-rc5

How is this possible? If I can sort this out then I'll post HOWTO details.

-Michael Blinn

Jared wrote:
> A short while back there was a lot of discussion about updating the megaraid 
> driver because the latest version of OMSA 'requires' a newer version of the 
> driver than is included in most stock kernels.  I'm one of the people 
> affected by this, and as a result my controller is stuck in a permanent 
> Degraded state.
>
> The general recommended solution is to upgrade the megaraid driver to the 
> latest version available in the Dell hardware repository.  That's fine, but 
> how are Debian users (or, for that matter, anyone not using Red Hat or SUSE) 
> supposed to do this?  I can't simply point my system to the yum repositories 
> as recommended.
>
> I tried downloading the tarball from support.dell.com, but it's obviously 
> geared toward a RPM system.  I tried compiling megaraid.c directly on my 
> system, but that failed with all kinds of errors.  I tried unpacking the 
> included megaraid_sas rpm with alien, but that just gave me all of the 
> various platform-specific drivers versions plus the source again.  Maybe I'm 
> just doing something wrong (and I'm sure I probably am), but I can't figure 
> out how I'm supposed to upgrade the driver.
>
> Can anyone offer some suggestions?  I know there are other Debian users on 
> the list - has anyone tried doing this before?
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Jared
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