<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div>I think these drivers were merged into a the kernel a bit later in the kernel than CentOS uses, although am a bit surprised upstream didn't backport. Before I set the machine up for proper, I tried a live Ubuntu disk which recognised the ethernet no problem, which lead me to figuring out what to do next for CentOS.<br><br>Before I bought this board, I must admit I tried to find a suitable modern board myself and didn't come up with much in the way of resources... I thought it ought to be documented in a wiki or something. I ended up doing some guesswork and taking pot-luck... <br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span
style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> CentOS mailing list <centos@centos.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> CentOS mailing list <centos@centos.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, 6 July, 2009 2:46:10<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [CentOS] modern motherboard for centos-5<br></font><br><br>> Pardon my ignorance, but what's "forcedeth"?<br><br>On board Ethernet, part of the nVidia GForce chipset.<br><br></div></div></div><br>
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