- Issued:
- 2006-08-10
- Updated:
- 2006-08-10
RHEA-2006:0542 - Product Enhancement Advisory
Synopsis
wireless-tools enhancement update
Type/Severity
Product Enhancement Advisory
Red Hat Insights patch analysis
Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.
Topic
An updated wireless-tools package that adds Wi-fi Protected Access (WPA)
support is now available.
Description
The wireless-tools package contains tools used to manipulate the
Wireless Extension. The Wireless Extension is an interface allowing
you to set Wireless LAN specific parameters and get specific
statistics for wireless networking equipment.
This update adds Wi-fi Protected Access (WPA) capability for supported
wireless devices.
Users of wireless-tools who want to enable WPA support should upgrade to
this updated package, which adds this enhancement.
Solution
Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.
This update is available via Red Hat Network. To use Red Hat Network,
launch the Red Hat Update Agent with the following command:
up2date
This will start an interactive process that will result in the appropriate
RPMs being upgraded on your system.
Affected Products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 ia64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 ia64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 4 ppc
Fixes
(none)CVEs
(none)
References
(none)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4
SRPM | |
---|---|
wireless-tools-28-0.pre16.3.3.EL4.src.rpm | SHA-256: 71953dce039bddc71d285562d0e631db58d85f0ac18b4979ff345b161f59be4b |
x86_64 | |
wireless-tools-28-0.pre16.3.3.EL4.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: e22389390a7986a813c4304f6da17efe5123a6110717e583dce31b63c3f1735a |
wireless-tools-28-0.pre16.3.3.EL4.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: e22389390a7986a813c4304f6da17efe5123a6110717e583dce31b63c3f1735a |
ia64 | |
wireless-tools-28-0.pre16.3.3.EL4.ia64.rpm | SHA-256: d56f223f6fbe1bf33f8455d3023df3bf6f6651a476e1f2fe0889acacad1b1346 |
wireless-tools-28-0.pre16.3.3.EL4.ia64.rpm | SHA-256: d56f223f6fbe1bf33f8455d3023df3bf6f6651a476e1f2fe0889acacad1b1346 |
i386 | |
wireless-tools-28-0.pre16.3.3.EL4.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 733a16ebcddec3e6cf0473fc96c618d12801bc7f385854865789fe646f855e6a |
wireless-tools-28-0.pre16.3.3.EL4.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 733a16ebcddec3e6cf0473fc96c618d12801bc7f385854865789fe646f855e6a |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4
SRPM | |
---|---|
wireless-tools-28-0.pre16.3.3.EL4.src.rpm | SHA-256: 71953dce039bddc71d285562d0e631db58d85f0ac18b4979ff345b161f59be4b |
x86_64 | |
wireless-tools-28-0.pre16.3.3.EL4.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: e22389390a7986a813c4304f6da17efe5123a6110717e583dce31b63c3f1735a |
ia64 | |
wireless-tools-28-0.pre16.3.3.EL4.ia64.rpm | SHA-256: d56f223f6fbe1bf33f8455d3023df3bf6f6651a476e1f2fe0889acacad1b1346 |
i386 | |
wireless-tools-28-0.pre16.3.3.EL4.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 733a16ebcddec3e6cf0473fc96c618d12801bc7f385854865789fe646f855e6a |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4
SRPM | |
---|---|
wireless-tools-28-0.pre16.3.3.EL4.src.rpm | SHA-256: 71953dce039bddc71d285562d0e631db58d85f0ac18b4979ff345b161f59be4b |
x86_64 | |
wireless-tools-28-0.pre16.3.3.EL4.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: e22389390a7986a813c4304f6da17efe5123a6110717e583dce31b63c3f1735a |
i386 | |
wireless-tools-28-0.pre16.3.3.EL4.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 733a16ebcddec3e6cf0473fc96c618d12801bc7f385854865789fe646f855e6a |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 4
SRPM | |
---|---|
wireless-tools-28-0.pre16.3.3.EL4.src.rpm | SHA-256: 71953dce039bddc71d285562d0e631db58d85f0ac18b4979ff345b161f59be4b |
ppc | |
wireless-tools-28-0.pre16.3.3.EL4.ppc.rpm | SHA-256: 8736453053a36793a99f3bdf0703692026c063e4ddc202c87c395b4143056eda |
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