- Issued:
- 2007-11-07
- Updated:
- 2007-11-07
RHEA-2007:0524 - Product Enhancement Advisory
Synopsis
hwdata enhancement update
Type/Severity
Product Enhancement Advisory
Red Hat Insights patch analysis
Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.
Topic
An updated hwdata package is available that updates the PCI and USB
description tables.
Description
The hwdata package contains tools for accessing and displaying hardware
identification and configuration data. The hwdata package includes the
tools lspci and lsusb.
This new package updates the pci.ids database used by lspci. The pci.ids
database is a vendor and device database that matches numeric IDs to
descriptive names.
Users of hwdata should upgrade to this updated package, which adds this
enhancement.
Solution
Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.
This update is available via Red Hat Network. To use Red Hat Network,
launch the Red Hat Update Agent with the following command:
up2date
This will start an interactive process that will result in the appropriate
RPMs being upgraded on your system.
Affected Products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 ia64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5 s390x
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5 ppc
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386
Fixes
- BZ - 245379 - FEAT: RHEL 5.1: put iwl4965 in the blacklist of the hwdata package
- BZ - 251732 - [RHEL5.1 FEATURE] e1000: Add Bolton support (device IDs)
- BZ - 251734 - [RHEL5.1 FEATURE] e1000: add support (device IDs) for HP Mezzanine cards
- BZ - 252195 - [RHEL5.1 FEATURE] e1000: provide next-gen e1000e driver
- BZ - 252196 - [RHEL5.1 FEATURE] add Intel igb Gigabit Ethernet driver
- BZ - 296811 - Need to add pci ids for Chelsio 10G NIC
CVEs
(none)
References
(none)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
hwdata-0.211-1.src.rpm | SHA-256: a22a2c69aa664f93a1df7f9deada457c84ee95681e878a8b501a693a81f71a98 |
x86_64 | |
hwdata-0.211-1.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: 1e057c756c91986dc70707bcfac05e20b0cd1b0f2c12a7469dc153e4ad565454 |
ia64 | |
hwdata-0.211-1.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: 1e057c756c91986dc70707bcfac05e20b0cd1b0f2c12a7469dc153e4ad565454 |
i386 | |
hwdata-0.211-1.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: 1e057c756c91986dc70707bcfac05e20b0cd1b0f2c12a7469dc153e4ad565454 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
hwdata-0.211-1.src.rpm | SHA-256: a22a2c69aa664f93a1df7f9deada457c84ee95681e878a8b501a693a81f71a98 |
x86_64 | |
hwdata-0.211-1.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: 1e057c756c91986dc70707bcfac05e20b0cd1b0f2c12a7469dc153e4ad565454 |
i386 | |
hwdata-0.211-1.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: 1e057c756c91986dc70707bcfac05e20b0cd1b0f2c12a7469dc153e4ad565454 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
hwdata-0.211-1.src.rpm | SHA-256: a22a2c69aa664f93a1df7f9deada457c84ee95681e878a8b501a693a81f71a98 |
x86_64 | |
hwdata-0.211-1.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: 1e057c756c91986dc70707bcfac05e20b0cd1b0f2c12a7469dc153e4ad565454 |
i386 | |
hwdata-0.211-1.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: 1e057c756c91986dc70707bcfac05e20b0cd1b0f2c12a7469dc153e4ad565454 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
hwdata-0.211-1.src.rpm | SHA-256: a22a2c69aa664f93a1df7f9deada457c84ee95681e878a8b501a693a81f71a98 |
s390x | |
hwdata-0.211-1.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: 1e057c756c91986dc70707bcfac05e20b0cd1b0f2c12a7469dc153e4ad565454 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
hwdata-0.211-1.src.rpm | SHA-256: a22a2c69aa664f93a1df7f9deada457c84ee95681e878a8b501a693a81f71a98 |
ppc | |
hwdata-0.211-1.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: 1e057c756c91986dc70707bcfac05e20b0cd1b0f2c12a7469dc153e4ad565454 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
hwdata-0.211-1.src.rpm | SHA-256: a22a2c69aa664f93a1df7f9deada457c84ee95681e878a8b501a693a81f71a98 |
x86_64 | |
hwdata-0.211-1.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: 1e057c756c91986dc70707bcfac05e20b0cd1b0f2c12a7469dc153e4ad565454 |
i386 | |
hwdata-0.211-1.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: 1e057c756c91986dc70707bcfac05e20b0cd1b0f2c12a7469dc153e4ad565454 |
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