Re: [Server-devel] CentOS hardware support doubts

2012-02-03 Thread Daniel Drake
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 9:09 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: 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

Re: [Server-devel] CentOS hardware support doubts

2012-02-03 Thread Peter Robinson
On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 9:09 PM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: 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

Re: [Server-devel] CentOS hardware support doubts

2012-02-03 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: I'm worried about the expertise required in order to identify such repos and packages. We need this process to be doable without me in the room. Agreed. I assume that RHEL is pretty good for server-class hardware found in

Re: [Server-devel] CentOS hardware support doubts

2012-02-03 Thread Samuel Greenfeld
On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: I've now seen 3 failure cases - the AR8152 mentioned above, and another case which I only had time to do a quick boot check of F9/C6/F16 (F16 was the only one that recognised the onboard NIC of the asrock motherboard).

Re: [Server-devel] CentOS hardware support doubts

2012-02-03 Thread Peter Robinson
On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Samuel Greenfeld greenf...@laptop.org wrote: On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote: I've now seen 3 failure cases - the AR8152 mentioned above, and another case which I only had time to do a quick boot check of F9/C6/F16 (F16 was

Re: [Server-devel] CentOS hardware support doubts

2012-02-02 Thread Martin Langhoff
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,

Re: [Server-devel] CentOS hardware support doubts

2012-02-01 Thread Carlos Daniel Garay Ayala
Hi, You can try the work done by Alsroot: http://gitorious.paraguayeduca.org/paraguayeduca-server is based on Ubuntu server. Regards, Carlos 2012/2/1 Abhishek Singh abhishek.si...@olenepal.org: On 02/01/2012 01:15 AM, Daniel Drake wrote: Hi, Like others, I'm interested in moving the XS

[Server-devel] CentOS hardware support doubts

2012-01-31 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, Like others, I'm interested in moving the XS to a newer OS base. My key motivation for this is that the Foundation Zamora Teran (OLPC Nicaragua) is having difficulty buying servers for new schools being added to the project - Fedora 9 is too old to support this hardware. For the next XS

Re: [Server-devel] CentOS hardware support doubts

2012-01-31 Thread Abhishek Singh
On 02/01/2012 01:15 AM, Daniel Drake wrote: Hi, Like others, I'm interested in moving the XS to a newer OS base. My key motivation for this is that the Foundation Zamora Teran (OLPC Nicaragua) is having difficulty buying servers for new schools being added to the project - Fedora 9 is too