Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 5.4 - RELEASE NOTES Release Note page 15

Note
the use of the iwl3945 driver requires installing the iwl3945-firmware package from
the supplementary RHN channel. Package version 15.28.2.8-2 or later is required. (ie
iwl3945-firmware-15.28.2.8-2 or later)
Additionally, the device name, for example as it appears in the output of the
`ifconfig` command appears as eth0 (or eth1) when using the ipw3945 driver,
when using the iwl3945 driver it is identified as wlan0.
• the bonding driver has been updated to the latest upstream version. This update, however has
introduced symbol/ipv6 module dependency capabilities. Therefore, if IPv6 has been previously
disabled (by inserting the install ipv6 /bin/false line in the /etc/modprobe.conf file)
an upgrade to the bonding driver in 5.4 will result in the bonding kernel module failing to load. The
install ipv6 /bin/false line needs to be replaced with options ipv6 "disable=1 for
the module to load properly.
• The drivers in the kernel for Intel® I/O Acceleration Technology (Intel® I/OAT) have been updated to
version 2.6.24.(BZ#436048)
• the igb driver for Intel® Gigabit Ethernet Adapters has been updated to version 1.3.16-k2. This
update also enables GRO support for the igb driver.
• The igbvf driver has been updated, providing Virtual Function support for Intel 82576 Gigabit
Ethernet Controllers.
• the ixgbe driver for Intel 10 Gigabit PBetaCI Express network devices has been updated to
version 2.0.8-k2. This update also enables GRO support for the ixgbe driver.
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BZ#499347).
• The bnx2 driver for Broadcom NetXtreme II network devices has been updated to version 1.9.3
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(BZ#475567 BZ#476897
• The tg3 driver for Broadcom Tigon3 ethernet devices has been updated to version 3.96.
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(BZ#481715, BZ#469772).
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(BZ#506205)
• The cnic driver has been added, providing Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI)
support for bnx2 network devices.
• The bnx2x driver for Broadcom Everest network devices has been updated to version
1.48.105.(BZ#475481)
• The bnx2i driver has been added, providing iSCSI support for bnx2x network devices.
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(BZ#441979)
.
• The cxgb3 driver for the Chelsio T3 Family of network devices has been updated, enabling
iSCSI TCP Offload Engines (TOE) and Generic Receive Offload (GRO) support.
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BZ#499347)
• The forcedeth ethernet driver for NVIDIA nForce devices has been updated to version 0.62.
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(BZ#479740).
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(BZ#480524)
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BZ#489519)
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This driver update adds support for 5785F and 50610M devices.
(BZ#441979)
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(BZ#484102, BZ#474881,
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Driver Updates
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BZ#499347).
(BZ#472547,
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(BZ#439518
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