Recommended update for hwinfo
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(Last modified: 05DEC2005)
solutions Recommended update for hwinfo SuSE Linux Maintenance Web (ba9b54b41e754056be2be23afea4e3f2)
hwinfo-devel
Product(s): SUSE CORE 9 for x86
SUSE CORE 9 for Itanium Processor Family
SUSE CORE 9 for IBM POWER
SUSE CORE 9 for IBM S/390 31bit
SUSE CORE 9 for IBM zSeries 64bit
SUSE CORE 9 for AMD64 and Intel EM64T
Open Enterprise Server
Novell Linux Desktop 9 for x86
Novell Linux Desktop 9 for x86_64
Patch: patch-10598
Release: 20051205
Obsoletes: none
- smbios detection: don't assume dmi records start below 1MB (#117734)
- dto, for smp info (#112699)
- fixed access to undefined memory (#54238)
- don't access pci config space in BIOS code (#104961)
- fix unaligned accesses (#97838)
- forcedeth info update - fixes nforce network card detection (#93649, #94571)
- hwscan probes for less things on s390 (to speed things up, #83366)
- look at smbios data for smp detection, too (port from sl 9.2, #81465)
- find xen network cards (#115361)
- mpt fusion driver info update
- added Intel 945G support (#114942)
- better support for virtual i/o hardware on ppc (#119592)
rpm -Fvh hwinfo.rpm hwinfo-devel.rpm
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