Centos 6.7 + MT25208 InfiniHost III Ex

Hi Guys,

I would really appreciate some help installing MT25208 InfiniHost III Ex driver on Centos 6.7.

My configuration:

lspci | grep fini

06:00.0 InfiniBand: Mellanox Technologies MT25208 InfiniHost III Ex (Tavor compatibility mode) (rev 20)

#cat /etc/issue

CentOS release 6.7 (Final)

#uname -r

2.6.32-573.el6.x86_64

What i did already:

  1. Tried to install via Yum, as mentioned in the following link: How to install support for Mellanox Infiniband hardware on RHEL6 - Red Hat Customer Portal How to install support for Mellanox Infiniband hardware on RHEL6 - Red Hat Customer Portal

But with no luck.

  1. Tried to install MLNX_OFED_LINUX-3.2-2.0.0.0-rhel6.7-x86_64.iso

when it didn’t work, i found in the user manual that the driver has no support for my hardware.

  1. I found the latest driver that support MT25208 InfiniHost III - MLNX_OFED_LINUX-1.5.2-2.1.0-rhel6.1.iso

which wasn’t easy, because you cant even find it the archive section

a. tried to install it via: ./mlnxofedinstall

b. got " The 2.6.32-573.el6.x86_64 kernel is installed, but do not have drivers available. Cannot continue."

c. Tried to build it via ./mlnx_add_kernel_support.sh

d. got “ERROR: Linux Distribution (centos-release-6-7.el6.centos.12.3.x86_64) is not supported”

  1. Tried to build from source using OFED-1.5.2-rc7.tgz

a. I extracted the files using: tar xzvf OFED-1.5.2-rc7.tgz

b. run ./install.pl

c. i chose “Basic (OFED modules and basic user level libraries)”

d. but it failed to build, with following errors from: /tmp/OFED.21700.logs/ofa_kernel.rpmbuild.log:


-I/usr/src/kernels/2.6.32-573.26.1.el6.x86_64/arch/x86/include \

-include /lib/modules/2.6.32-573.el6.x86_64/build/include/linux/autoconf.h \

-D__KERNEL__ -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -Werror-implicit-function-declaration -Wno-format-security -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks -O2 -m64 -mtune=generic -mno-red-zone -mcmodel=kernel -funit-at-a-time -maccumulate-outgoing-args -fstack-protector -DCONFIG_AS_CFI=1 -DCONFIG_AS_CFI_SIGNAL_FRAME=1 -DCONFIG_AS_CFI_SECTIONS=1 -DCONFIG_AS_AVX=1 -pipe -Wno-sign-compare -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -mno-sse -mno-mmx -mno-sse2 -mno-3dnow -Wframe-larger-than=2048 -Wno-unused-but-set-variable -fno-omit-frame-pointer -fno-optimize-sibling-calls -g -pg -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wno-pointer-sign -fno-strict-overflow -fno-dwarf2-cfi-asm -fconserve-stack -DMODULE -D"KBUILD_STR(s)=#s" -D"KBUILD_BASENAME=KBUILD_STR(addr)" -D"KBUILD_MODNAME=KBUILD_STR(ib_addr)" -D"DEBUG_HASH=44" -D"DEBUG_HASH2=11" -c -o /var/tmp/OFED_topdir/BUILD/ofa_kernel-1.5.2/drivers/infiniband/core/.tmp_addr.o /var/tmp/OFED_topdir/BUILD/ofa_kernel-1.5.2/drivers/infiniband/core/addr.c

In file included from include/net/addrconf.h:51,

from /var/tmp/OFED_topdir/BUILD/ofa_kernel-1.5.2/drivers/infiniband/core/addr.c:43:

include/net/ipv6.h:271:5: warning: “IS_ENABLED” is not defined

include/net/ipv6.h:271:15: error: missing binary operator before token “(”

make[4]: *** [/var/tmp/OFED_topdir/BUILD/ofa_kernel-1.5.2/drivers/infiniband/core/addr.o] Error 1

make[3]: *** [/var/tmp/OFED_topdir/BUILD/ofa_kernel-1.5.2/drivers/infiniband/core] Error 2

make[2]: *** [/var/tmp/OFED_topdir/BUILD/ofa_kernel-1.5.2/drivers/infiniband] Error 2

make[1]: *** [module/var/tmp/OFED_topdir/BUILD/ofa_kernel-1.5.2] Error 2

make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.32-573.26.1.el6.x86_64’

make: *** [kernel] Error 2

error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.XEtXu6 (%build)

RPM build errors:

user vlad does not exist - using root

group vlad does not exist - using root

user vlad does not exist - using root

group vlad does not exist - using root

line 115: prereq is deprecated: PreReq: coreutils

line 116: prereq is deprecated: PreReq: kernel

line 117: prereq is deprecated: Prereq: pciutils

line 118: prereq is deprecated: Prereq: grep

line 119: prereq is deprecated: Prereq: perl

line 120: prereq is deprecated: Prereq: procps

line 121: prereq is deprecated: Prereq: module-init-tools

line 130: prereq is deprecated: PreReq: coreutils

line 131: prereq is deprecated: PreReq: kernel

line 132: prereq is deprecated: Prereq: pciutils

Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.XEtXu6 (%build)


Any ideas?

I am starting to get a little desperate, because i am starting to think that it is not possible to install this old hardware with Centos 6.7.

tnx…

Hi AI,

These HCA cards have been EOL since 12/01/2011 & EOS since 11/01/2013.

Older Mellanox OFED driver version would not support the current OS RHEL 6.7.

This would as well be applicable with OFED (Open Fabric) driver version.

Thank you,

Sophie.