R300 CentOS RAID Driver Update

[Matthew Schneider]

Jeff,

Thanks for the nudge, I got it working!

I ran "dkms build -m mptlinux -v 4.00.38.02" and got this error:

Error! Your kernel source for kernel 2.6.18-164.el5PAE cannot be found at
/lib/modules/2.6.18-164.el5PAE/build or /lib/modules/2.6.18-164.el5PAE/source.

Investigating further, /lib/modules/2.6.18-164.el5PAE/build is a link to the kernel source directory. The target directory did not exist. Looking in /usr/src/kernels, I realized I had the source for the regular kernel, not the PAE kernel installed. I installed kernel-PAE-devel and reran the driver install and everything worked.

Thanks for the Help!




From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com [mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Jeff
Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 11:22 AM
To: Dell Linux PowerEdge Mailing List
Subject: Re: R300 CentOS RAID Driver Update

I don't promise to have the right answer, just trying to give a nudge in the right direction...

Try running the dkms build manually and you should get some useful error messages.

root# dkms build <src-path>

Where <src-path> should be something like /usr/src/mptlinux-4.00.38.02. I am not a dkms expert, but I stumbled through this once myself. In any case, read up on dkms and figure out how to do it manually if the command I gave doesn't do it.

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Jeff
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Matthew Schneider <mschneider at vctx.org<mailto:mschneider at vctx.org>> wrote:
Martin,

Thanks for the help, but still no luck. I already had kernel-devel installed and I have added kernel-headers. I attempted the driver installation again with the same result. Anything else I might try?


From: Martin Vincenc [mailto:martin.vincenc at enlogit.cz<mailto:martin.vincenc at enlogit.cz>]
Sent: Monday, October 12, 2009 2:55 PM
To: Matthew Schneider
Cc: 'linux-poweredge at lists.us.dell.com<mailto:linux-poweredge at lists.us.dell.com>'
Subject: Re: R300 CentOS RAID Driver Update

Hi Matthew,

you need to install kernel-headers and kernel-devel packages.

It will also recreate initrd with this new mptsas driver, so don't forget to install Dell driver package after each kernel update.


Cheers,


Martin



On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 14:27 -0500, Matthew Schneider wrote:
I have a PowerEdge R300 running CentOS 5.3. Open Manage is reporting that the RAID driver is out of date. I downloaded the latest version of the driver from the Dell site and attempted to install. When I attempt to install the mptlinux 4.00.38.02 RPM, I get the following output:



Creating symlink /var/lib/dkms/mptlinux/4.00.38.02/source<http://4.00.38.02/source> ->

                 /usr/src/mptlinux-4.00.38.02



DKMS: add Completed.



Module build for the currently running kernel was skipped since the

kernel source for this kernel does not seem to be installed.



'modinfo mptsas' still shows the old version.



I am running kernel version 2.6.18-164.el5PAE and the source is installed. What do I need to do to install the new version?





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