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• Get from Mellanox the appropriate version of the firmware to start with. For our ConnectX2 NICs (as of December 2012) this file is in ~ouster/samba/mellanox/fw-ConnectX2-rel.mlx.

• This file needs to be combined with an appropriate .ini file.  First, fetch the existing .ini file from the NIC:
  

  Code Block

  flint

  -d

  /dev/mst/mt26428_pci_cr0

  dc

  >

  mt26428

  MT_0DD0120009.ini

  No Format
  flint -d /dev/mst/mt26428_pci_cr0 dc > mt26428MT_0DD0120009.ini

  Check /dev/mst to verify the file name there.  In this case the .ini file is named after the board_id from ibv_devinfo (we have two different board ids, which have different .ini files (though they use the same .mlx file).

• Edit the .ini file to add a new qp_minimal_timeout_val