9. Device Drivers

9.1. Network Device Drivers

  • I/O AT (I/O Acceleration Technology) and DCA drivers have been updated. I/O AT is a collection of techniques by Intel to improve network throughput by offloading copy operations. Direct Cache Access (DCA) is an I/O AT feature which can deliver data directly into processor caches.
  • The zd1211 driver for the ZyDAS ZD1211(b) 802.11a/b/g USB WLAN device is now supported in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6.
  • The qlcnic driver has been updated to the latest upstream version
  • The be2net driver for ServerEngines BladeEngine2 10Gbps network devices has been updated to version 2.102.512r
  • The bnx2 driver for the Broadcom NetXtreme II network cards has been updated to version 2.0.8
  • The bnx2x driver for Broadcom Everest network devices has been updated to version 1.52.53-4
  • The forcedeth ethernet driver for NVIDIA nForce devices has been updated to the latest upstream version
  • The e1000e driver for Intel PRO/1000 ethernet devices has been updated to the upstream version 1.2.7-k2
  • The enic driver for Cisco 10G Ethernet devices has been updated to version 1.4.1.2
  • The igb driver for Intel Gigabit Ethernet Adapters has been updated, adding support for PCI-AER
  • the ixgbe driver for Intel 10 Gigabit PCI Express network devices has been updated to version 2.0.84-k2
  • The netxen driver for NetXen Multi port (1/10) Gigabit Network devices has been updated to version 4.0.73
  • The qlge driver for QLogic 10 Gigabit PCI-E ethernet devices has been updated to version 1.00.00.25
  • The Solarflare driver (sfc) has been updated to version 2.6.36-4c1
  • The tg3 driver for Broadcom Tigon3 ethernet devices has been updated to version 3.108+
  • The vxge driver for Neterion's X3100 Series 10GbE PCIe devices has been updated to version 2.0.8.20182-k

9.2. Storage Device Drivers

  • The cciss driver for HP Smart Array controllers has been updated to version 3.6.22.RH1
  • The qla4xxx driver has been updated to version 5.02.03.00.05.06-d1
  • The bnx2i driver for Broadcom NetXtreme II iSCSI has been updated to version 2.1.3
  • the be2iscsi driver for ServerEngines BladeEngine 2 Open iSCSI devices has been updated.
  • the lpfc driver for Emulex Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters has been updated to version 8.2.0.87
  • The ipr driver has been updated to version 2.2.0.4
  • The 3w-sas driver has been updated to version 3.26.00.028-2.6.18RH
  • The 3w-xxxx driver for 3ware SATA RAID Controllers has been updated to version 2.26.08.007-2.6.18RH
  • The cxgb3i driver for Chelsio host bus adapters (HBAs) have been updated.
  • The megaraid_sas driver for LSI MegaRAID SAS controllers has been updated to version 4.31
  • The mpt2sas driver that supports the SAS-2 family of adapters from LSI has been updated to version 05.101.00.02
  • the qla2xxx driver for QLogic Fibre Channel HBAs has been updated to version 8.03.01.05.05.06-k

9.3. Desktop Drivers Updates

  • The i810 drivers for Intel integrated display devices have been updated with added support for IronLake graphics.
  • The sis driver has been updated with added support for Volari Z9s devices.
  • The mga driver for Matrox video devices has been updated, with added support for the G200eH device.

9.4. Printer Drivers

  • The HPLIP (Hewlett-Packard Linux Imaging and Printing Project) package provides drivers for HP printers and multi-function peripherals. Version 3.9.8 of HPLIP is now available as a separate hplip3 package. Note that the hplip3 package provides a newer version of HPLIP that can be installed alongside the version provided in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The relevant command line utilities are prefixed with hp3- instead of hp-, for example: hp3-setup.