DKMS Question

[Tino Schwarze]

On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 09:48:33PM -0600, Matt Domsch wrote:

> > I have a PE2900 with the PERC5/e controller. As mentioned in the other 
> > thread that has been going on, there's an updated driver from Dell for 
> > this card. I'm seeing pretty awful performance from this card (as other 
> > people are seeing) so I'd like to update the driver.
> > 
> > I don't have DKMS installed. What's the best, and least destructive way, 
> > of updating the driver and/or getting DKMS installed?
> 
> You don't mention which distribution you're running, but DKMS is
> available for download on linux.dell.com at
> http://linux.dell.com/dkms/dkms-2.0.17.5-1.noarch.rpm
> and is in the Fedora, EPEL, and Ubuntu (>= 7.10) Universe repositories
> too.
> 
> The version in the Dell Software repository on
> linux.dell.com/repo/software is somewhat out-of-date I see. :-(
> 
> The driver package itself includes a copy of dkms-2.0.13 I see.
> That should be good enough too, but I know  a few bugs have been fixed
> since then that would be nice to have the newer version.

BTW: I was surprised that the DKMS RPM from the megaraid_sas package
just worked on my openSUSE 10.2 box! It compiled the module, built a new
initrd and after a reboot, everything was fine. :-)

Good work!

Bye,

Tino.

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