HP-UX 11i Version 2 December 2005 Release Notes
Table Of Contents
- HP-UX 11i Version 2 December 2005 Release Notes
- Legal Notices
- Publication History
- Typographic Conventions
- 1 Overview of the Release Notes
- 2 Introduction to HP-UX 11i Version 2
- 3 What is New at a Glance
- 4 Server-Specific Information
- What is in This Chapter?
- Hardware Enablement Patch Bundle
- HP Instant Support Enterprise Edition
- Networking and Mass Storage Drivers
- Always-Installed Networking Drivers
- Selectable Networking Drivers
- Always-Installed Mass Storage Drivers
- Selectable Mass Storage Drivers
- Supported Systems
- Finding Firmware Information
- 5 General System Administration
- What is in This Chapter?
- Distributed Systems Administration Utilities
- Enterprise Cluster Master Toolkit Version
- Event Monitoring Services
- Feature Enablement Patch Bundle (Feature11i)
- GlancePlus Pak
- High Availability Monitors
- HP Integrity Virtual Machines Provider
- HP Integrity VM Support Library
- HP Partitioning
- HP Serviceguard
- HP Serviceguard NFS Toolkit
- HP System Management Homepage
- HP Systems Insight Manager
- HP WBEM Services for HP-UX
- HP-UX Accounts for Users and Groups
- HP-UX Kernel Configuration
- HP-UX Peripheral Device Tool
- HP-UX WBEM Fibre Channel Provider
- HP-UX WBEM LAN Provider for Ethernet Interfaces
- HP-UX WBEM LVM Provider
- HP-UX WBEM SCSI Provider
- Ignite-UX
- Obsolescence Bundle
- Online Diagnostics
- Quality Pack Patch Bundle
- Software Distributor
- Software Package Builder
- Update-UX
- Utilization Provider
- 6 Disk and File Management
- 7 Internet and Networking
- 8 Security
- 9 Commands and System Calls
- 10 Libraries and Programming
- 11 Internationalization
- 12 Other Functionality
Server-Specific Information
Always-Installed Networking Drivers
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NOTE The HWEnable11i bundle, which is normally installed by default on the 11i OE media,
provides the patches that are required for the installation of these networking bundles.
When updating an existing 11i system, you can install the HWEnable11i bundle and the
desired networking bundle from the OE media in the same install session to meet
software dependencies.
In addition to currently supported cards, the swlist report may contain the product
numbers of cards that have been “pre-enabled,” but have not been released yet.
GigEther-00 (Gigabit Ethernet)
The GigEther-00 bundle supplies the gelan driver, which supports the A4924A,
A4925A, A4926A, and A4929A cards.
Summary of Change
The GigEther-00 software bundle (for Gigabit Ethernet driver gelan) has been updated
in December 2005 to incorporate defect fixes. For further information, refer to the
GigEther-00 (gelan) December 2005 Release Notes, available under “I/O Cards and
Networking Software” at http://docs.hp.com/en/netcom.html.
Impact
Details of defect fixes are not documented in the HP-UX Release Notes. For this and all
future releases of Gigabit Ethernet drivers, please consult the individual product release
notes for details on what fixes have been made to the Gigabit Ethernet drivers.
Compatibility
Please consult the individual product release notes for details.
Performance
Please consult the individual product release notes for details.
Documentation
For further information, refer to the GigEther-00 (gelan) December 2005 Release Notes,
available at http://docs.hp.com. Click I/O Cards and Networking Software, then
1000Base-T and 1000Base-SX (Gigabit Ethernet).
Obsolescence
Not applicable.