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Chapter 3. Driver Updates

3.1. Network Drivers

• Added ipw3945 driver in version 1.2.0 and ipw3945d tools in version 1.7.22

• Added iwlwifi driver

• Added mac80211 wireless driver

• Updated Realtek r8169 driver to support newer chipsets

• Updated IPv6 stack for better Source Address Selection

• Updated tg3 driver to version 3.86b

• Added bnx2x 10 gigabit ethernet driver in version 1.42.3

• Updated bnx2 driver to version 1.6.7c

• Added ixgbe driver in version 1.1.21

• Updated e1000 driver to version 7.6.9.1

• Updated netxen driver to the one from upstream kernel version 2.6.23

• Updated qla3xxx driver to version 2.03.00-k4

• Added igb driver in version 1.0.8

• Added Chelsio 10GB driver (cxgb) in version 1.0

• Added Myricom 10G driver (myri10ge) in version 1.3.1

• Updated s2io driver to version 2.0.25.1

3.2. Storage Drivers

• Updated qla2xxx to version 8.02.00-k6

• Updated qla4xxx to version 5.01.02-d4

• Updated megaraid driver to version 2.20.5.2

• Updated megaraid_sas to version 3.15

• Updated 3w-9xxx to version 2.26.08.003 (9.5.0.1)

• Updated 3w-xxxx to version 1.26.02.002

• Updated aic7xxx to version 7.0

• Updated aic94xx driver to include SATA support for SAS

• Updated aacraid driver to version 1.1-5[2449]

Summary of Contents for SP2 - S

Page 1: ...Release Notes for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 Service Pack 2...

Page 2: ...on the media Any documentation if installed can be found below usr share doc in the installed system This Novell product includes materials licensed to Novell under the GNU General Public License GPL...

Page 3: ......

Page 4: ...tallation Related Notes 10 6 Update Related Notes 12 6 1 General Notes 12 6 2 Update from SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1 12 6 3 Update from SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 13 7 Technology Previews...

Page 5: ...ES 10 common code base making them part of the maintained code base Provide useful additional information and documentation see Chapter 5 Installation Related Notes Through joint testing and maximum c...

Page 6: ...dumps over network and to filter kdump images When doing a network install check if the IP address of the machine to be installed is already in use by another machine This check can be suppressed with...

Page 7: ...nagement tools gtk vnc virt viewer The HPI STONITH module of heartbeat was enabled Support for Intel R iAMT was added IPA Fonts were added The Firmware for Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN Cards was a...

Page 8: ...SC33 8289 04 Chapter 18 z VM unit record device driver zSeries STSI change for capacity provisioning Make the permanent and temporary capacity information as provided by the STSI instruction of the I...

Page 9: ...arge memory footprints like in Java or database workloads by exploiting the new z10 hardware feature to be able to use large memory pages 1 MB See Linux kernel source tree under Documentation vm huget...

Page 10: ...6 9 1 Updated netxen driver to the one from upstream kernel version 2 6 23 Updated qla3xxx driver to version 2 03 00 k4 Added igb driver in version 1 0 8 Added Chelsio 10GB driver cxgb in version 1 0...

Page 11: ...port for Nvidia MCP73 77 79 and 7B SATA devices 3 3 Other Drivers Updated CIFS to version 1 50c Updated OCFS2 to version 1 4 0 Updated intel i810 driver Added X11 driver for AMD Geode LX 2D xorg x11 d...

Page 12: ...hanged signal handler for SIGINT and SIGQUIT to be compatible with the behavior on other operating systems and shells Updated libica to version 1 3 8 Updated libvirt to version 0 3 3 including mDNS an...

Page 13: ...Other Updates 9 Updated xfsprogs to version 2 9 4 Updated xntp to version 4 2 4p3 Updated xsp to version 1 2 5...

Page 14: ...a cyclic dependency that leads to a crash Using qla3xxx and qla4xxx driver at the same time QLogic iSCSI Expansion Card for IBM BladeCenter provides both Ethernet and iSCSI functions Some parts on the...

Page 15: ...r in one line should not exceed 80 characters Adding DASD or zFCP disks during installation zSeries The adding of DASD or zFCP disks is not only possible during the installation workflow but also when...

Page 16: ...ded work unmodified for many users but some users find our profiles too restrictive for their environments If you discover that some of your applications do not function as you expected you may need t...

Page 17: ...s the symlink and places the contents of the archive within it To enforce the old behavior please use the option no overwrite dir when extracting an archive ulimits SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 set...

Page 18: ...setting up a KDC in the documentation in the krb5 doc package To configure a Kerberos client start the YaST Kerberos Client module and enter your values for Standard Domain Standard Realm and KDC Ser...

Page 19: ...s dbus launch to start the window manager If you have a local xinitrc file you must change it accordingly Otherwise applications might fail Save your old xinitrc Then copy the new template file into y...

Page 20: ...pported under Linux Problems occur if huge pages are assigned to a partition in combination with eHEA eHCA adapters eHEA Network interfaces can t be setup if huge page memory is assigned to the same p...

Page 21: ...mv etc adjtime var lib hwclock ln s var lib hwclock adjtime etc adjtime the following two steps are only necessary if you use dhcp mv etc resolv conf var lib misc ln s var lib misc resolv conf etc re...

Page 22: ...Enterprise Server 11 powertweak package is deprecated and will be removed with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 CTC ESCON and IUCV IP interfaces are no longer officially supported For compatibility rea...

Page 23: ...r either chkconfig evms on or chkconfig boot evms on at the Linux server console of every server that is part of your iSCSI SAN This ensures that EVMS and iSCSI start in the proper order each time you...

Page 24: ...s including rx7620 rx8620 rx7640 rx8640 and all Superdomes only support the use of a single VGA device per hard partition The usage of more than one VGA card causes a system hang or crash on all of th...

Page 25: ...Known Issues 21 ln s ppc970 power4 ln s power5 power5 ln s power6 power6x Go to the 64 bit debuginfo directory cd usr lib debug lib64 ln s ppc970 power4 ln s power5 power5 ln s power6 power6x ln s tls...

Page 26: ...ity Fixes This Service Pack contains all the latest security fixes for each package released via the maintenance Web since the GA version Program Temporary Fixes This Service Pack contains all the PTF...

Page 27: ...rted kernel drivers To load unsupported kernel drivers automatically during boot set the sysconfig variable LOAD_UNSUPPORTED_MODULES_AUTOMATICALLY in etc sysconfig hardware config to yes Nonexecutable...

Page 28: ...some applications Novell has not found any problems during testing the most commonly used applications and services Because it is not the default this has not been tested as extensively as the stack...

Page 29: ...ges Find more information in the docu directory of CD1 of the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 CDs This directory includes PDF versions of the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 startup and preparation gu...

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