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Preface
This preface lists the supported products, specifies the intended audience,
explains the typographic conventions used in this guide, lists related documents,
provides technical support and contact information, and describes legal notices.
Supported Products
This user’s guide describes the following Cavium FastLinQ
®
products:
10Gb Intelligent Ethernet Adapter: QL41112HLCU-CK/SP/BK
10Gb Intelligent Ethernet Adapter: QL41112HLRJ-CK/SP/BK
10Gb Converged Network Adapter: QL41162HLRJ-CK/SP/BK
10/25Gb Intelligent Ethernet Adapter: QL41212HLCU-CK/SP/BK
10/25Gb Converged Network Adapter: QL41262HLCU-CK/SP/BK
Intended Audience
This guide is intended for system administrators and other technical staff
members responsible for configuring and managing adapters installed on servers
in Windows, Linux
®
, or VMware
®
environments.
What Is in This Guide
Following this preface, the remainder of this guide is organized into the following
chapters and appendices:
provides a product functional description, a list
of features, adapter management tool descriptions, and the adapter
specifications.
Chapter 2 Hardware Installation
describes how to install the adapter,
including the list of system requirements and a preinstallation checklist.
describes the installation of the adapter drivers
on Windows, Linux, and VMware.
Chapter 4 Firmware Upgrade Utility
describes the use of the utility to
upgrade adapter firmware and boot code.
