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 any of the external repos have a kmod-staging or >> kmod-atl1e that works for you? > > I've returned that system now; if I get the time and opportunity to > test again, I will do so. Where is the list of external repos? > > 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. > >> 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 assume that RHEL is pretty good for server-class hardware found in > US/EU; I can imagine why the support of desktop-class hardware found > in the poorer parts of latin america may be lesser so. > >> 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...? > > 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). > > Yesterday we received 10 servers based on an Intel motherboard (and 12 > more will be coming next week). F9 doesn't recognise the onboard NIC. > C6 recognises the onboard NIC but isn't able to send/receive packets. > F16 works fine (using e1000e driver). As these boards only have 1 PCI > socket it is not possible to have 2 NICs (unless we resort to USB...) > unless we move beyond C6. > Also, F9 and C6 do not recognise the SATA DVD drive in these systems - > no /dev/sr0 created, error in dmesg during boot. This will be a pain > for field work. With F16 this works fine. > > I haven't yet found a case where the F9-->C6 upgrade adds hardware > support for any hardware that we have here. > > > I like your idea of using a F16 kernel on top of CentOS 6.2. So far, > his seems to be working fine (and solves all of the compatibility > problems mentioned above). If this continues to work I would like to > push it as the default for XS install media.
I suggest using the F-15 kernel. The 2.6.42.x kernel in F-15 is the 3.2.x kernel but there's issues with a number of utilises plain not working because they can't work out the kernel version because they don't expect a major version of 3. Peter _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
