9. 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

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

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.

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.