Hi All, I am trying to add a 3Ware 9500S-8 RAID controller to a CentOS 5.4 box. I have the drivers from 3Ware and they seem to be a .ko file (which I presume is like a .kext on OSX) How do I install these? Searched turn up people talking about Kernel panics with .ko's but I dont see anything that points to to installing one so I can use the card. Best, -Jason
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 5:59 PM, Slack-Moehrle <mailinglists at mailnewsrss.com> wrote:> Hi All, > > I am trying to add a 3Ware 9500S-8 RAID controller to a CentOS 5.4 box. > > I have the drivers from 3Ware and they seem to be a .ko file (which I presume is like a .kext on OSX) > > How do I install these? Searched turn up people talking about Kernel panics with .ko's but I dont see anything that points to to installing one so I can use the card.The driver should have come with an installer script, that copies the module to the correct directory your runtime kernel is using for modules. If the driver download is nothing but a .ko file, do you know what kernel it was complied for? try sticking it in /lib/modules/$YOUR_KERNEL_VERSION/extra and then do a depmod -a to update the modules list, and lastly a modprobe to load your module. Gordon
On 10/04/2010 22:59, Slack-Moehrle wrote:> Hi All, > > I am trying to add a 3Ware 9500S-8 RAID controller to a CentOS 5.4 box. >FYI http://www.3ware.com/KB/article.aspx?id=14546 D
Slack-Moehrle wrote:> Hi All, > > I am trying to add a 3Ware 9500S-8 RAID controller to a CentOS 5.4 box. > > I have the drivers from 3Ware and they seem to be a .ko file (which I presume is like a .kext on OSX) > > How do I install these? Searched turn up people talking about Kernel panics with .ko's but I dont see anything that points to to installing one so I can use the card. >Have you tried it without installing the vendor driver? That board should be old enough to be supported natively. I use 9550SX boards without any problems. -- Benjamin Franz