On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Daniel Drake <d...@laptop.org> wrote: > However, having installed/run CentOS 6.2 for the first time I now have > my doubts about this. I installed it on a server where the network > interface does not appear with F9 (but does work with more recent > Fedora). With CentOS, the same problem as F9 is presented: no network > adapter. > > Digging further, I see that support was added to the Linux kernel for > this particular network adapter (Atheros AR8152) on February 16th
I assume here that CentOS is reasonably in sync with RHEL. Does http://elrepo.org/bugs/print_bug_page.php?bug_id=126 help? More generally, does any of the external repos have a kmod-staging or kmod-atl1e that works for you? My assumption is that RHEL/CentOS have fairly decent hardware support from backported drivers, some in the RH kernels, EPEL or external repos (in order of decreasing quality expectations...). I wonder if you've been unlucky in the mix of hw you got there; or whether the driver support situation for essential things like NICs and disk controllers is weaker than I had expected. Maybe others with more practical experience with current RHEL/CentOS can comment...? We should keep in mind that any LTS OS will have to rely on driver packages and/or kernel updates to support current hw... of course we want something reasonably sane and straightforward. But having to handle some extra driver installs isn't in itself a big deal. cheers, m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- Software Architect - OLPC - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
