If you are installing MLNX-OFED-5.5-1 on Rocky Linux 8.5, you may want to download the drivers from Nvidia Linux Drivers

Step 1: Installing Prerequistics

# dnf install tk tcsh tcl gcc-gfortran kernel-modules-extra

Step 2a: Installing MLNX on Rocky 8.5

If you just do a ./mlnxofedinstall

# ./mlnxofedinstall
Current operation system is not supported!

Step 2b: Force Install with the right distro.

# ./mlnxofedinstall --distro rhel8.5 --force
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Device #1:
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  Device Type:      ConnectX5
  Part Number:      MCX512F-ACH_Ax_Bx
  Description:      ConnectX-5 EN network interface card; with host management 25GbE Dual-port SFP28; PCIe3.0 x16; ROHS
  PSID:             MT_0000000416
  PCI Device Name:  10:00.0
  Base GUID:        xxxxxxxxxxxx
  Base MAC:         yyyyyyyyyyyy
  Versions:         Current        Available
     FW             16.31.1014     16.32.1010
     PXE            3.6.0403       3.6.0502
     UEFI           14.24.0013     14.25.0017

  Status:           Update required

After installing…….

Restart needed for updates to take effect.
Log File: /tmp/PAl8Z5mkHc
Real log file: /tmp/MLNX_OFED_LINUX.150443.logs/fw_update.log
To load the new driver, run:
/etc/init.d/openibd restart

Step 3: You have to remove and reload the drivers before you can do the /etc/init.d/openibd restart

[root@h00 media]# modprobe -rv ib_isert rpcrdma ib_srpt
rmmod ib_isert
rmmod iscsi_target_mod
rmmod rpcrdma
rmmod ib_srpt
[root@h00 media]# /etc/init.d/openibd restart
Unloading HCA driver:                                      [  OK  ]
Loading HCA driver and Access Layer:                       [  OK  ]

References:

1. Driver Installation of Mellanox InfiniBand
2. Mellanox NIC driver: Current Operation System is not supported