Installation guide

8.2.0.33.2p. T his applies several upstream changes, most notably:
the NETLINK_SCSITRANSPORT socket is now used
Resolved uninitialized node access.
fixed a bug that caused echotest failure when NPIV is enabled.
fcauthd 1.19 is now required for fibre channel authentication.
dm -m ultipath now has inbox support for IBM DS4000.
The ixgbe driver now supports the 82598AT dual-port adapter and the 82598 CX4 adapter.
the jsm driver has been updated to add support for Digi Neo PCI Express 4 HiProfile I/O
adapters.
hp-ilo: driver added, providing support for HP Integrated Lights Out (iLO) technology.
The radeon_tp driver is now fully supported in this release. T his driver enables the ATI
R500/R600 chipsets.
This driver also features the following capabilities:
Modesetting on R500/R600 chipsets
2D acceleration on R500 chipsets
Shadow framebuffer acceleration on R600 chipsets
The powernow-k8 driver is now included in this release as a loadable module. T his ensures that
existing driver frameworks (such as the Red Hat Driver Update Model and Dell DKMS) can deliver
powernow-k8 driver updates to users as RPM packages without requiring them to upgrade the
kernel.
For this release, Red Hat is re-adding pnm 2ppa in order to provide support for legacy printers. Note,
however, that this support is deprecated and will be discontinued in future major releases.
The ccid driver has been re-based to add support for USB Smartcard keyboards.
the uvcvideo drivers for USB video devices has been added to the kernel in Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 5.3.
Network
The bnx2 driver for the Broadcom NetXtreme II network cards has been updated to version 1.7.9.
This update fixes the ethernet ring buffer options on controllers that use bnx2 to fix a bug that
caused the system to panic at boot.
The e1000e driver for Intel PRO/1000 ethernet devices has been updated to the upstream version
0.3.3.3-k2. With this update, the EEPROM and NVM of supported devices are now write-protected.
igb: driver for Intel Gigabit Ethernet Adapters has been updated to version 1.2.45-k2, adding
support for 82576 based devices.
the ixgbe driver for Intel(R) 10 Gigabit PCI Express network devices has been updated to version
1.3.18-k4.
the niu driver has been added to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3, adding support for 10Gbps ethernet
devices on Sun CP3220 systems.
the ipw2100 and ipw2200 drivers for Intel PRO Wireless devices has been backported to Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 5.3 from Linux Kernel 2.6.25.
the bcm 43xx driver for Broadcom Wireless devices has been backported to Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 5.3 from Linux Kernel 2.6.25.
the ieee80211 support component for wireless devices has been backported to Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 5.3 from Linux Kernel 2.6.25.
the zd1211rw driver for ZyDas Wireless devices has been updated to match the last non-
mac80211 version from just prior to Linux 2.6.25.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 5.3 Release Notes
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