<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 style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">I think this is where I got a working version. To correct my earlier statement, I think CentOS may have forcedeth but not new enough support my particular NIC. I think I did read somewhere that 5.4 will support my chipset. Either way, to get back to the original topic, it's a modern board and it's working fine for what I wanted.<br><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> Ned Slider <ned@unixmail.co.uk><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> CentOS mailing list <centos@centos.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, 14 July, 2009
23:54:15<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [CentOS] modern motherboard for centos-5<br></font><br>Scott Silva wrote:<br>> on 7-6-2009 2:50 AM Ian Murray spake the following:<br>>> I think these drivers were merged into a the kernel a bit later in the<br>>> kernel than CentOS uses, although am a bit surprised upstream didn't<br>>> backport.<br>> Upstream usually only backports additions like this at point releases. Between<br>> point releases is usually security updates and other broken parts. So if the<br>> driver isn't in 5.3, it won't be added until 5.4 (or later).<br>> <br><br>ELRepo.org has drivers for forcedeth (amongst others) for el5:<br><br><a href="http://elrepo.org" target="_blank">http://elrepo.org</a><br><br><a href="http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-forcedeth" target="_blank">http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-forcedeth</a><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>CentOS
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