[CentOS] Intel 3000 and 5000 chipsets?

[Joshua Baker-LePain]

On Fri, 9 Feb 2007 at 1:33pm, Mike wrote

> Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
>> On Fri, 9 Feb 2007 at 11:53am, Mike wrote
>> 
>>> Greetings.  HP claims RHEL 4 supports their servers with the Intel 3000 
>>> and 5000 chipsets.  Has anyone had any trouble/success building machines 
>>> that use this?
>>> 
>>> For example, CentOS 4.4 on 
>>> http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/1U/5015/SYS-5015M-T+.cfm
>> 
>> I'm running CentOS4 on several X7DVL-E motherboardas (5000V chipset). Most 
>> stuff works well (put the SATA in AHCI mode).  The one caveat was that 
>> while the stock e1000 driver will somewhat work with the onboard NICs, 
>> it'll randomly decide to stop moving packets about.  An upgrade to the most 
>> recent driver from Intel (7.3.20) fixed that.
>> 
> Thanks.  Other than the stock e1000 driver issue, CentOS 4.4 will install 
> from CD ok?

Well, I kickstart from CD and do http installs.  But that went without a 
hitch, so the full install from CD should as well.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University